MerlynSanchez

Good afternoon everyone!

When someone clicks on my RSS icon to subscribe to my feed they get the following message:

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: Smart Business Owners
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
^

Any ideas on how to fix it?

Thanks!
Merlyn

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Karen Blundell

Hi Merlyn,

very strange! you have a couple of choices as to how to fix it:

1. upgrade to WordPress 2.9 and all files will be updated
2. keep your existing version of WordPress (2.8.6) but download the package because you need to over-write 3 files:

wp-feed.php, wp-rss2.php and wp-rss.php
those 3 files need to be FTP'd to your blog's root directory

James Williams

you have a blank line at the top of your rss file when its outputed thats whats causing the errors, best bet is to reinstall the wp-includes folder which has the real rss files the wp-feed wprss2 wp-rss files are actually deprecated and not even used except for backward compatability. Also some themes cause it. but here are to links to 2 seperate fixes incase reuploading from a FRESH folder do not work.

Wordpress leading whitespace fix

w3it.org – Internet Helper Wordpress: feed output error solution. How to remove white spaces and fix problems

they involve some work. .. try reinstalling the wp-includes folder/files in it first from a fresh download of wp.

Hope this helps

Best Regards,
James
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MerlynSanchez

Thank you DarkLour and Karen! Very helpful.

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