desertlynx

oh… I feel like a complete idiot. My sincere thanks for that.

Fixed!
I have to admit, finding that character proved more difficult than I expected, I had to go and use a hex editor to remove the non-printing characters (which notepad++ seemed to ignore).

My guess is they were asian characters (as is the theme’s author, I believe) and my computer lacked whatever character set to display them.

Once again, thank you

Wow, excellent job finding that one. Thank you

done

hmm.. more complications:

• the problem only manifests when the plugin “Private WP 1.1” is used
• once logged in, the issue no longer arises

I double checked the theme index.php, unless I’m blind, there’s nothing at the start of that file (I’m using Notepad++).

However, the first line of code is ‘<?php get_header(); ?>’. would I be right in guessing that this could indicate the problem is in the header.php instead?

(coincidentally, there was a trailing line break in header.php which I have since removed, but to no avail)