RSS feed does not validate on wordpress

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I have an error message when I click on my site's rss feed url (both from feedburner and the original atom feed):

"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."

I Have check with The rss feed validator and this is what I got:

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FNoCamels

I tried everything they suggested (also restarted the plugins) - but nothing worked.

PLEASE, I need your help!

Yuval

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do you use the default rss feeds? You can make sure by checking them with a clean install without theme's/plugins in a subdirectory or local - janw
I tried to use also the default rss feed - same message: nocamels.com/feed How can I test it on clean install - it is a working site... should I switch to the default WP theme and check it? Got any idea from the error I attached? - YuvalH

3 Answers

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You simply have a blank line outside php tags in your wordpress files.

You should check and remove blank lines in :

  • wp-config.php
  • functions.php of your theme
  • *.php in your plugins
  • ...etc

Take a look here : http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2009/05/wordpress-feed-xml-parsing-errors/

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I had the same problem. The culprit was the wp-trackback.php. Blank space at the bottom. I cleared the blank space and voila. RSS is working now.

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I have also this question. I solved from error on line 2 at column 6

You simply have a blank line outside php tags in your WordPress files.

You should check and remove blank lines in :

wp-config.php functions.php of your theme *.php in your plugins ...etc Take a look here