Hi All

 

I built a blog for a client a while back and all has been fine with it until recently when a user noticed that the RSS feed link wasn't working. When you click on the subscribe link you get the following error:

 

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity

Location: http://feeds.feedburner.com/wealthflow

Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

^

 

So I've done the following to try and fix this and had no luck and I'm still getting the error message...

 

1. I checked all the RSS files and removed any blank lines within the code - didn't make a difference!

 

2. The feed was set up with feedburner so I visited the feedburner site to find that it has now been taken over by google, so I transferred it over and logged in via google and ran checks via the site to fix the feed - it brought up the same error and I followed all the instructions on the site to fix the feed - made no difference!

 

3. I installed the FixRSS plugin and ran this - it said it had fixed the feed and to click on a link to check - I did so and got a page not found page. When clicking on the subscribe link within the blog I got the same old error so this solution didn't make a difference either!

 

4. I backed up the database and all core files and upgraded wordpress to the latest version. Still get the error so this didn't make a difference either.

 

5. I deactivated the feedburner plugin and reactivated it. I'm now wondering whether to get rid of feedburner altogether!

 

I can't see the feed for the blog at all using the following examples from the WP site:

 

http://example.com/wp-rss.php

http://example.com/wp-rss2.php

http://example.com/wp-rdf.php

http://example.com/wp-atom.php

 

or

 

http://example.com/?feed=rss

http://example.com/?feed=rss2

http://example.com/?feed=rdf

http://example.com/?feed=atom

 

or

 

http://example.com/feed/

http://example.com/feed/rss/

http://example.com/feed/rss2/

http://example.com/feed/rdf/

http://example.com/feed/atom/

 

the blog address is: http://www.wealthflow.com/blog/ and I would appreciate any help to resolve this issue as it's driving me nuts! I'm hoping someone will have a solution for me.

 

by the way this is the code for the subscribe link if that helps at all:

<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/wealthflow" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/wealthflow" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe to this Blog</a>

I managed to fix this by following the instructions within this article:

http://www.w3it.org/blog/wordpress-feed-error-output-solution-how-to/