New WP site – RSS Feed Broken

Turn off the feedburner plugin. Make sure it works that way first.

Then, when you get FeedBurner working right, turn the plugin back on.

Okay, thanks. I did that, but now I get a different message. Can you take a look and advise?

Thanks,

Chuck

Clear these errors first, https://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3a%2f%2fwww.marriage-moments.com%2f

Your feed will most likely work then.

Hi,

Check with these options:

-> Disable all the plugins and enable it one by one to find out the culprit.
-> Upgrade your wordpress to the latest version
-> Remove all unwanted code from htaccess file of your blog
-> Change your theme to default in order to rules out theme level problems.

Thanks,

Shane G.

Your feed is here: https://www.marriage-moments.com/feed/

And it has the “blank line problem”: https://feedvalidator.org/docs/error/WPBlankLine.html

Although in your particular case, it’s the blank space problem.

Eliminate plugins, switch to the default theme, make sure you didn’t mess up the wp-config.php file.. Find that extra space and remove it.

Hi Otto42,

Sorry, but I am really stuck here. I have uploaded a new WP 2.8.4 to another URL. I am using the default theme. I then go to feedburner and try to add the feed, and it tells me:

Sorry
This feed does not validate.

?line 1, column 1: Blank line before XML declaration [help]

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> ^

I have no plugins installed. This is fresh ‘out-of-the-box’

Where is the feed stored? I can’t find a file to edit. Is it in the DB?

Blessings!

Chuck

The feed is not “stored” anywhere.

Did you read this?
https://feedvalidator.org/docs/error/WPBlankLine.html

It gives a number of places to check for blank spaces. wp-config.php is the most obvious place. Remove the ending ?> from that file, that might fix it.

I found this solution and used it. It seems to work great. I don’t know enough about WordPress yet to know if there is a better solution or a reason not to use this.

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