RSS: XML or text declaration not at start of entity

Just tried different browsers:

FF, IE, chrome and Opera don’t show the feed.

In Opera:

XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 3, Character: 0)

Reparse document as HTML
Error:XML declaration not at beginning of document
Specification:https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/
1:
2:
3: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><rss version=”2.0″
4: xmlns:content=”https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/&#8221;
5: xmlns:wfw=”https://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/&#8221;
6: xmlns:dc=”https://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/&#8221;

Safari shows the feed just nicely!

Ok, fixed the problem and it works in all mentioned browsers… Really weird but really easy… just cleaned my header ??

I had some blanc lines in there to visually seperate the metatag-lines, rss-lines, blogname-lines, …

I hope it works for the other people as well!

Hmmm, spoke too soon…

the feedburner link is working… the normal feed (https://www.paulolyslager.com/feed) is still not responding.

Let me know if someone has an answer!

you have blank lines at the start

some review

plugin that might help
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/fix-rss-feed/

He used that plugin already.
I’m having exactly the same problems.

Thank you for your replies… Yes, thank you Greetje… As mentioned before Samboll, i’ve tried the fix-rss-feed without any luck. Also cleaned up my header for any white spaces and still not working. Someone else has an idea please?

@greetje, let me know how it works out for you!

cheers

ok, i found this article:

https://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2009/05/wordpress-feed-xml-parsing-errors/

It made me realise that the only php code i changed over the past few weeks was those of the theme files. I found a blanc line in my archive.php.

Maybe you should those as well!

I ve tried every single whitespace delete I can find and still no luck with this ??

linktobrokenrss

If anyone can see anything obvious I am missing by the link that would be great.

Cheers.

pdbanimations, your feed is working fine and it’s perfectly valid:

https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orwellx.com%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss2

If you continue to have problems, please start your own topic.

Thanks for response. Sorry for posting here found it on a google search. It is now working … somehow lol! I went to work and come back and it now works spooky maybe it took a while to update or something.