Title: Sitemap Error
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Sitemap Error

 *  [thammavongsam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thammavongsam/)
 * (@thammavongsam)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-26/)
 * Hello Support
 * I am Getting error on my website sitemap my site [here](http://www.casinobonustips.com/sitemap_index.xml)
 * error is : This page contains the following errors:
 * error on line 2 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the
   document
    Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
 * Please fix this error
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  [vadim-v](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vadim-v/)
 * (@vadim-v)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-26/#post-5995762)
 * Me too:
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-line-2-at-column-6-7?replies=1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-line-2-at-column-6-7?replies=1)
   I propose to unite and solve in one subject.
 *  [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * (@pidengmor)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-26/#post-5995917)
 * Have a read here:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-sitemap-xml-parsing-error?replies=2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-sitemap-xml-parsing-error?replies=2)
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-xml-parsing-error-xml-or-text-declaration-not-at-start-of-entity?replies=3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-xml-parsing-error-xml-or-text-declaration-not-at-start-of-entity?replies=3)
 *  [vadim-v](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vadim-v/)
 * (@vadim-v)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-26/#post-5995918)
 * Thank you **barnez**! I found what the cause!
    This file I created in the child
   theme (functions.php) At the end, after ?> was two spaces `?>` I removed the 
   spaces at the end of code, and it worked!
 *  [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * (@pidengmor)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-26/#post-5995925)
 * You’re welcome 🙂

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 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-26/#post-5995925)
 * Status: not resolved