Line of edit appears at top of page when plugin activated

Hmm not sure, it only adds HTML to the RSS feed output, it shouldn’t affect your web site at all.

Can you send me a screenshot via Awesome Screenshot etc?

I’d look at the theme by default, or a plugin affecting the page output maybe, no idea.

Hi, here is a link of the page: https://awesomescreenshot.com/0cd4fbimd3 I am not sure why it is doing it but only comes up when this plugin is activated. Regards

Hmm, it looks like the theme is outputting the excerpt at the top, but not sure why it’d do that with my plugin activated… use the link in the plugin to hit my contact form, and send me an admin login so I can take a look at the theme and code? I’ve had this reported once before, so I’d like to nail down what’s causing it if possible.

It happened to my blog too. Turned out the theme that I had purchased online used a WordPress API named the_excerpt_rss() to build the description of the page in a meta tag.

The plugin modifies the output of that API which works fine in RSS feeds but messes up the meta tag and the page.

I solved the issue as follows:
– Find the_exceprt_rss(); in your theme’s php files. Most likely it’s in the header.php
– Replace it with this:
echo get_the_excerpt();

That will do the same except that it won’t be affected by the plugin.

Note that it’s wrong using the_excerpt_rss() anywhere but in the RSS feed. So the blame is on the theme’s author.

Ah yep, makes sense, thanks Dmitry.

I was able to log into Sam’s site after she sent me the login, and the problem was no longer there, most likely due to a theme update that resolved the issue and they fixed their code.

If this is happening then it’s up to the theme author to update the theme code, and the get_the_excerpt() workaround should help in the mean time.