Title: RSS link error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# RSS link error

 *  [saintehlers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saintehlers/)
 * (@saintehlers)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-link-error/)
 * the basics: my wordpress install is currently at [http://thelemur.net/wordpress](http://thelemur.net/wordpress)
 * when I use the “classic” theme I get this when I click on the RSS link:
 * [http://thelemur.net/images/feed.rss](http://thelemur.net/images/feed.rss)
 * when I use the theme I’m writing I get this:
 * > [http://thelemur.net/wordpress/?p=1](http://thelemur.net/wordpress/?p=1) Just
   > another WordPress weblog Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:55:04 +0000 [http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7](http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7)
   > hourly 1 [http://thelemur.net/wordpress/?p=1&cpage=1#comment-1](http://thelemur.net/wordpress/?p=1&cpage=1#comment-1)
   > Mr WordPress Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:13:30 +0000 [http://thelemur.net/wordpress/?p=1#comment-1](http://thelemur.net/wordpress/?p=1#comment-1)
   > Hi, this is a comment.
   > To delete a comment, just log in and view the post’s
   > comments. There you will have the option to edit or delete them.
 * So uhm…. what did I do wrong? Clearly it’s a problem with my theme, but not sure
   where to set this up right.

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 *  Thread Starter [saintehlers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saintehlers/)
 * (@saintehlers)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-link-error/#post-973605)
 * bump
 *  Thread Starter [saintehlers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saintehlers/)
 * (@saintehlers)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-link-error/#post-973704)
 * so i dug into this, it’s spitting out XML, not just that text.
 * It’s spitting out identical XML as the WP Classic theme.
 * So… why does the classic theme look like a formatted page and my theme look like
   plain text?
 *  Thread Starter [saintehlers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saintehlers/)
 * (@saintehlers)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-link-error/#post-973709)
 * I’ve now tried it in different browsers
 * Internet Explorer throws an error using either theme:
    with WordPress classic:
 * > A semi colon character was expected.
   >  Line: 18 Character: 49
   >  <link>[http://thelemur.net/wordpress/?p=1&cpage=1#comment-1</link&gt](http://thelemur.net/wordpress/?p=1&cpage=1#comment-1</link&gt);
 * with my custom theme:
 * > Invalid xml declaration.
   >  Line: 2 Character: 3
   > <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><rss version=”2.0″
 * And Opera does this using WordPress Classic:
    [http://thelemur.net/images/xml.jpg](http://thelemur.net/images/xml.jpg)
 * in my theme it does the same thing as Firefox.
 *  Thread Starter [saintehlers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saintehlers/)
 * (@saintehlers)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-link-error/#post-973710)
 * (I think those differences in the errors on line 18 are due to whether the browser
   is counting spaces)
 * I guess this may be a deeper problem with the RSS functions in WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [saintehlers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saintehlers/)
 * (@saintehlers)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-link-error/#post-973751)
 * This continues to plague me under every theme ever. Is there something to be 
   done about it?

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 * Last reply from: [saintehlers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saintehlers/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-link-error/#post-973751)
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