Title: White space above xml declaration
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# White space above xml declaration

 *  Resolved [jacoblett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacoblett/)
 * (@jacoblett)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/white-space-above-xml-declaration/)
 * Thank you for building this plugin. It works well except I am unable to add the
   rss feed to a mailchimp email sender. It says it is not a valid feed. When I 
   run it through a validator it says there is white space above the xml declaration.
 * Here is the feed url I am working with [http://www.altairuniversity.com/?call_custom_simple_rss=1&csrp_posts_per_page=10&csrp_show_meta=1&csrp_meta_key=language&csrp_meta_value=English](http://www.altairuniversity.com/?call_custom_simple_rss=1&csrp_posts_per_page=10&csrp_show_meta=1&csrp_meta_key=language&csrp_meta_value=English)
 * THank you for any help you can provide.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-simple-rss/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-simple-rss/)

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 *  Plugin Author [danikoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danikoo/)
 * (@danikoo)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/white-space-above-xml-declaration/#post-6966573)
 * Hi there
    if i open in chrome the url you have sent- i do see something odd: 
   a large space before the xml. **but pay attention**: i see the same problem in
   your normal wordpress feeds see here:[http://www.altairuniversity.com/feed/](http://www.altairuniversity.com/feed/)
 * something is definitely wrong there. i would try looking in your theme’s header.
   php
 * sorry i couldnt help more
 *  Plugin Author [danikoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danikoo/)
 * (@danikoo)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/white-space-above-xml-declaration/#post-6966576)
 * Hi again
    maybe this could help [https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/error/WPBlankLine.html](https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/error/WPBlankLine.html)
 * try looking in your functions file for spaces in the end or unwanted ?> mark
 * good luck 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [jacoblett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacoblett/)
 * (@jacoblett)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/white-space-above-xml-declaration/#post-6966713)
 * Hi Danikoo. Thank you for your reply and help. Like you said, there was some 
   extra spaces in my functions.php 🙁
 * Have a great 2016!

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