Title: &#8220;Success&#8221; Error Message
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# “Success” Error Message

 *  [thetrexx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thetrexx/)
 * (@thetrexx)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/success-error-message/)
 * My installation is running smooth, except for one issue: there’s a “success” 
   words that keeps on appearing everywhere, at the top of the blog and the administration
   pages (once logged in). I suspect it’s one of the include files, but I can’t 
   seem to find anything once I’ve gone thru them. Any ideas anyone?

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 *  [Shane G.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g-1/)
 * (@shane-g-1)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/success-error-message/#post-1485313)
 * Hi,
 * Can you please provide your blog URL?
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  Thread Starter [thetrexx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thetrexx/)
 * (@thetrexx)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/success-error-message/#post-1485321)
 * [http://raptweets.net](http://raptweets.net)
 * You have to highlight the text (it’s not visible on the main site, due to the
   text colors being black). It’s centered a little bit above the website header
   logo.
 *  Thread Starter [thetrexx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thetrexx/)
 * (@thetrexx)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/success-error-message/#post-1485326)
 * This is what it says on every single page [source]:
 *     ```
       success<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
       <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
       ```
   
 * The other main problem is that it’s interfering with the RSS Feeds. You can’t
   save the feeds to your browser or rss reader. Here’s what the RSS error says:
 *     ```
       XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
       Location: http://raptweets.net/?feed=rss2
       Line Number 1, Column 8:success<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
       -------^
       ```
   
 * Any ideas?
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/success-error-message/#post-1485329)
 * I have a feeling that it may be a plugin. Try deactivating all plugins. If the
   issue has resolved itself, reactivate each plugin one-by-one until you find the
   cause.
 * It is possible that “success” is in the theme too, so you may want to switch 
   to the Default theme to see if that resolves it.
 *  Thread Starter [thetrexx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thetrexx/)
 * (@thetrexx)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/success-error-message/#post-1485443)
 * Thanks MacManX! I wrote a bad functions.php file and somehow the “success” wasn’t
   commented properly. Anyway, I deleted the file and everything’s back to normal.
   Thanks!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [thetrexx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thetrexx/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/success-error-message/#post-1485443)
 * Status: not resolved

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