Title: RSS feed setup issues – code errors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# RSS feed setup issues – code errors

 *  [will2008](https://wordpress.org/support/users/will2008/)
 * (@will2008)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-setup-issues-code-errors/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m getting the following error message when viewing the feed:
 * //Error message —
 * XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
    Location:
   [http://splashinteractive.com/temp/fact/htdocs/html/blog/?feed=rss2](http://splashinteractive.com/temp/fact/htdocs/html/blog/?feed=rss2)
   Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> ^
 * Thanks in advance,
 * W

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-setup-issues-code-errors/)
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