bshirley

hmm, obviously a problem with the podpress plugin

Good call.

I’ve been sitting there for weeks saying “I know I have visitors, I have comments”.

I duplicated the line, figuring if I switch themes, the page will use one or the other, so cover my bases:

stats/stats.php – toward the bottom:

// Plant the tracking code in the footer
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'stats_footer', 101 );
add_action( 'get_footer', 'stats_footer', 101 );

WPINSTALLDIR/wp-content/plugins/ywhsbcmast.html

had 3-4 trailing empty lines causing the problem

how/where are the plugins/whitespace?
which files do I need to look in?
(i’m having the same problem – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/55699 )

update:

It seems the problem is three blank lines being added to the head of the xml.

The source being output is at
https://shirl.com/feed0.xml

with the heading three blank lines removed, at
https://shirl.com/feed1.xml

feedvalidator.org accepts the second one

What is causing this addition of blank lines?
How can I stop it?

Alternately, where should I look? (Was an OpenStep/C/Objective-C programmer in a former life)

He already gave you an answer, but i thought i’d mention that I find

https://feedvalidator.org/

useful.