Title: XML feed error – declaration unexpected
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# XML feed error – declaration unexpected
* Resolved [revolute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/revolute/)
* (@revolute)
* [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-feed-error-declaration-unexpected/)
* This just popped up with my rss feed:[http://www.everythingbetween.com/?feed=rss2](http://www.everythingbetween.com/?feed=rss2)
* I cannot seem to figure out why my feed is not verifying. The message I have
received from readblogs.com is:
* The XML declaration is unexpected. Line 5, position 3.
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* [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
* (@beel)
* [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-feed-error-declaration-unexpected/#post-267823)
* Did you recently make changes, like add a plugin? Something is including junk
head content in your feeds.
* [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
* (@cypher)
* [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-feed-error-declaration-unexpected/#post-267874)
* You have:
`
* being inserted into the RSS feed that is invalid. As Beel noted, try to figure
out who is injecting this stuff.
* A quick GREP in the /wp-content/plugins directory might give you something to
look at.
* Regards
* Thread Starter [revolute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/revolute/)
* (@revolute)
* [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-feed-error-declaration-unexpected/#post-267918)
* thanks for the help. Yeah, I put in my coordinates for geourl.org, but put them
in the index instead of the header. I have fixed it.
* [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
* (@cypher)
* [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-feed-error-declaration-unexpected/#post-267983)
* Hmmm..ICBM…Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile..? 🙂
* Glad you figured it out…
* Regards
* [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
* (@beel)
* [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-feed-error-declaration-unexpected/#post-268018)
* Cute – but that is what it stands for… even in this case (As in “This is my missile
address”) from the Usenet mapping project. I still like “International Consortium
for Brain Mapping” (and it would have fit, too)
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## Tags
* [RSS2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss2/)
* [verify](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/verify/)
* [xml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xml/)
* In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
* 5 replies
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* Last reply from: [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
* Last activity: [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-feed-error-declaration-unexpected/#post-268018)
* Status: resolved
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