Title: RSS Validation Problem Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # RSS Validation Problem * [lucasteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasteve/) * (@lucasteve) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/) * Hello there, * I am trying to have my blog fed through FEEDBURNER. During the setup process, I’m asked to validate the Feed Url. The url I’m trying to validate is [http://meditationgeneration.com/blog/?feed=rss2](http://meditationgeneration.com/blog/?feed=rss2) * I have no idea how to correct the error message that displays when I try to validate on feedvalidator.org * The error message i receive is: Sorry This feed does not validate. * Feeds should not be served with the “text/html” media type [help] * line 2, column 0: XML parsing error: :2:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity [help] * Source: [http://meditationgeneration.com/blog/?feed%3Drss2](http://meditationgeneration.com/blog/?feed%3Drss2) * * I would appreciate any help I could get on this. I searched through the other posts and couldn’t find info that relates to my particular problem. If i missed it, please help me find it. * Thanks, Steve Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [skrollster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skrollster/) * (@skrollster) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/#post-304944) * I don’t have a solution to your problem, but i’v got the same problem as you have. * My URI is [http://skrollster.se](http://skrollster.se) * none of the feeds can be vailidated * the problem is that there is a line feed before the deklaration.. * i’v tried to reinstall 2.0 3 times now and the same problem all the time. * any ideas? * Thread Starter [lucasteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasteve/) * (@lucasteve) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/#post-304955) * Hmmm… * I don’t really know what to do either… * here’s a link to another thread that someone in the irc chat sent to me… * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/16575?replies=17](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/16575?replies=17) * here’s another link i discovered… * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/52713?replies=14](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/52713?replies=14) * Maybe if you read through these, you’ll understand the problem a little better, but like me, you’ll still not have the solution. * ugh!!!! * Thread Starter [lucasteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasteve/) * (@lucasteve) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/#post-304961) * one more thing… * i’ve been told that there is a wordpress 2.0/final version while i can only find the wordpress 2.0/rc2 version… * someone mentioned that upgrading to the final version may solve the problem. * Since i’m using the Yahoo automatic upgrade feature, i’m afraid that i’ll screw things up if i try that myself. * If you do try this, and it works, could you let me know and i’ll contact yahoo!! * [talishka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talishka/) * (@talishka) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/#post-304971) * I’m using the latest version and i’m having the same problem. Im working on it. * [talishka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talishka/) * (@talishka) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/#post-304985) * I found the problem, in one of the latest post i had this img link.. * ”Truco!” * As you can see there’s a “!” after the word Truco in the alt label, well.. i removed that exclamation and everything started to work fine again. I hope this help you out guys. * Thread Starter [lucasteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasteve/) * (@lucasteve) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/#post-305016) * Wow…so, now i should go through to make sure there are no “!” in the alt tags of any of my posts?? * How would you even have thought that that might be what’s causing? * God this is all so confusing!! * Thanks for the heads-up 🙂 * [skrollster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skrollster/) * (@skrollster) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/#post-305228) * i fund a rellating thread here: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/35877/page/2?replies=32](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/35877/page/2?replies=32) * [skrollster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skrollster/) * (@skrollster) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/#post-305240) * i found my error.. * it was in a plugin.. but i don’t get it.. i did disable the plug in and tested without it and the error was still there.. * i found it by starting to add comments in my index.php file * echo “”; — whatever function was next echo “”; * and if the comments where at diffrent line i knew that the problem was between the two comments.. and i dugg deeper and deeper until i came to the function where the plugins where called and found what plug in caused the error by doing * echo “”; the call of the plugin echo “”; * Thread Starter [lucasteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasteve/) * (@lucasteve) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/#post-305384) * Hey Skrollster – * Any chance you can go a little more into detail on how i can do what you did to check my plugins?? * I really didn’t understand the concept. * p.s. I went to your blog because i wanted to email you, and I discovered after clicking on your picture that there is an error on that page that I think is related to your last post. * I hope you can help 🙂 * Steve * [BigDog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigdog/) * (@bigdog) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/#post-305385) * I changed back to the default permalink structure and my feed validated in Feedburner. So far it appears to be working…. * [BigDog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigdog/) * (@bigdog) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/#post-305386) * Trackbacks however, are not yet working……. Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘RSS Validation Problem’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 11 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [BigDog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigdog/) * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-validation-problem/#post-305386) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics