Title: RSS feed inconsistent!
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS feed inconsistent!

 *  [chiefy81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chiefy81/)
 * (@chiefy81)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-inconsistent/)
 * How come when I go to <site>/wp-rss2.php manually the feed comes in fine, however
   when I click on the “You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS
   2.0 feed” I get s different incorrect feed that give me an error (in firefox).
   It appears the error is caused by some spaces (not lines) before the starting
   XML tag. My question is why are these different and where can i look for the 
   spaces? Its not in my config file or any of the (default) theme files.

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-inconsistent/#post-561127)
 * > _My question is why are these different _
 * The normal feed link goes through the index.php and the template-loader. Loading
   wp-rss2 directly bypasses a lot of the normal wordpress files and functions and
   such.
 * > _and where can i look for the spaces? _
 * Most likely candidate: the main index.php in the root. Make sure it has no blank
   lines outside the <?php … ?> tags.
    Failing that, look for a file with a blank
   line before the opening <?php tag. Could be anywhere.
 *  Thread Starter [chiefy81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chiefy81/)
 * (@chiefy81)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-inconsistent/#post-561248)
 * It doesnt appear to be a blank line, the xml start tag is on the first line, 
   the problem is there are spaces AKA space bar ” ” characters.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-inconsistent/#post-561267)
 * Well, then without looking at it, I can’t say what the deal is. What’s the URL?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-inconsistent/#post-561267)
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