garywhite855

I see I missed your post about re-uploading fresh copies of the wp-admin and wp-includes folders plus all files in the WP root folder. We posted at nearly the same time. So for the record that didn’t get tried.

I did upgrade to 2.8 thinking that would give fresh versions of some files but it didn’t solve the issue – unless a cache issue was at play.

I never found it. That is I found some and corrected them to no avail.

This plugin:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/fix-rss-feed/
(that checks) said there were none – after it fixed them – but it still didn’t work.

What worked for me:
https://wejn.org/stuff/wejnswpwhitespacefix.php.html
seems to strip out white space? You could probably tell by looking at it (it’s a small bit of code). So it might still be being generated and then removed.

There is always a possibility that there was a cache issue also. I was clearing the cache (firefox/tools/privacy/etc) and trying other browsers but who knows?

I did fix a typo in the blog before I saw results, so maybe the RSS needed to regenerate in some way? I’m still pretty new to wordpress – <2-months so…

Thanks for the help, hope this exchange helps someone else too.

I got it fixed.

I used this

https://wejn.org/stuff/wejnswpwhitespacefix.php.html

Alternatively this may work for some:

https://www.w3it.org/blog/wordpress-feed-error-output-solution-how-to/

Thanks to all who helped out.

Gary

Yes Both. The fix-rss-feed plugin said that it found white space in a bunch of files and removed it. I re-ran it and it found none.

I tried switching to the WP default theme and had the same error (No plugins and default theme)

I think I’ll try to do the upgrade to 2.8 and see if that helps. Don’t know what else to try.

I have looked at all my xxxx.php files for white space and I have used the plugin here that is often recommended on this forum
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/fix-rss-feed/

The plugin found and reportedly fixed the white space problems – running it a second time found no errors.

I deactivated all of my plugins and still get the error.

What should I try next? Most of the posts on this forum indicate white space as the usual culpprit. Is there another way to check for it?

Thanks

I have removed blank lines from post & pages and from all of the xxx.php files in the Appearance editor.

It is the Amazing Grace Theme if that has any relevance.

There is still a blank line as the first line of the RSS feed and I get the following error message

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: https://www.running-contacts.com/rcblog/feed/
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
^

Thanks,

I have checked the Theme files header.php functions.php etc and removed blank line top and bottom but no change.

I’ll look at posts and pages next. Anywhere else?

When I view page source the first section is:
____________________________

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="https://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="https://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="https://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="https://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	>

______________________
First line being blank

Gary

Awesome!

Thanks t31os and cais that’s perfect. You guys rock!

marking as resolved

gary

Thanks so much,

I’ve tried inserting the code and I get an error message

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ ….. line 27

I inserted at the top as recommended. In my editor window line 27 is the </div> after the near the bottom
ie here:

</div>
<?php comment_text() ?>
<div class=”reply”>
<?php comment_reply_link(array_merge( $args, array(‘depth’ => $depth, ‘max_depth’ => $args[‘max_depth’]))) ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php
}

In your text above line 27 is the final <?PHP

Am I doing something wrong or is there a typo somewhere?

appreciate the help!

gary

What’s the best way to check that or set them correctly? Or is that a big question? Looking with Filezilla the folder that the conatains the blog has permissions as drwxrwsr-x Inside of that the 3 WP folders (admin, content, includes) are the same drwxrwsr-x

.htacccess is -rw-r–r–
most of the others are -rw-rw-r–
wp-config-sample.php is -rw-r–r–

Themes folder is drwxrwsr-x
amazing-grace folder is also drwxrwsr-x

within that folder the php files are all -rw-rw-r–

Is that correct or a problem? Thanks

I have unzipped the original theme and checked against the current files. So far…

theme_license.php isn’t part of the original theme at all

It is a now long string of code like this:
<?/* asdklnasdfknasdf923rjpidnf…..etc

start_template.php also isn’t part of the theme and is also code:
$start = ‘Wm5WdVkzUnBiMjRnYzNSaGNuUmZkR1Z0Y0d4aGRH…..etc

functions.php and sidebar.php have been changed and include
base64_decode

footer.php has been changed also

I guess I’ll check them all and upload th correct versions.

I did a file compare of functions.php

The original had (just a comment?):
// register widgetized sidebars

Now replaced with:
require_once(“theme_licence.php”); add_action(‘wp_footer’,’print_footer’);

and also added was:
function decode_it($code) { return base64_decode(base64_decode($code)); } require_once(pathinfo(__FILE__,PATHINFO_DIRNAME).”/start_template.php”);

I don’t know what any of that means but that seems suspicious. I’ll check some of the other files….

Thanks for your reply,

It wasn’t there before. This is the Amazing Grace theme. It’s used a lot and there aren’t usually links like this with this theme.

The URL is https://www.running-contacts.com/rcblog/

I looked in footer.php the URL seems to appear where there is

and <?php wp_footer(); ?> I don’t think that’s original.

See below Footer.php

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
</div>

<div id=”footer”>

<div id=”credits”>

<div id=”ftnav”>
<span class=”rss”>” title=”<?php _e(‘Subscribe to RSS’); ?>”><?php _e(‘<abbr title=”Subscribe to RSS”>RSS</abbr>’); ?></span>
</div>
<small>Copyright © 2008 All rights reserved. <?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> design by Vladimir Prelovac and <?php wp_footer(); ?>.</small>
</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>