XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity

  • Hello everyone,

    I just created the blog portion of my site:

    It’s been up for about four days and I was wondering why I wasn’t receiving any hits whatsoever. When I checked out Entries RSS and Comments RSS, however, all I see is the following error:

    XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
    Location: https://bloodandsleaze.com/blog/feed/
    Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
    ^

    I took this to feed validator and got the following:
    line 2, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:2:0: xml declaration not at start of external entity

    Here’s the source: https://bloodandsleaze.com/blog/feed/rss/

    Feed Validator has this top line highlighted: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><!– generator=”wordpress/2.3.3″ –>

    So, if you can’t tell, I’m very inexperienced when it comes to this stuff. I’m not sure what this means and I have no idea how to fix it. Any help would be much obliged!

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  • Jon

    (@jonpaulwade)

    I have created a WordPress blog and am getting the same problem.

    i.e

    XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
    Location: https://www.motleyhealth.com/articles/feed/
    Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

    Using the cutline-3-column-split-11 theme. Could the theme be the problem? Not done much else to the blog so far, installed some plugins, but all from www.ads-software.com.

    hey guys.
    the reason you are getting this error is you have extra white spaces somewhere in you plugin’s PHP files. to resolve this remove any spaces before <? in starting of the plugin file and after ?>.

    also the file to look for extra spaces is wp-config.php because this is the only file of wordpress files which you edit and added extra spaces.

    more information how to do this is given here

    None of this works! After all of these years with WordPress, To hell with them! I’ll try MT or something with support!

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