mwiegant

It seems that I was able to fix the broken feed! It seems like my specific issue with having empty lines in my functions.php file between php code blocks.

To future readers: The links below were helpful for me, or were helpful to some other people who ran into this EXACT same type of problem. Methodically check any file with php code in it for extra lines at the end of the file.

This link will have you add a new file to your page (worked for most people, but not for me)

This is the article I followed that led me to solving the issues that existed in my code.

Chris, thanks for your reply.

I ran the script on the post you linked and found that my index page had an extra line after the last closing php tag. I also looked at the remaining files manually, in case the script missed any (which it did, about 6 files), and I made the changes to remove the extra lines in those files. Those changes don’t seem to have effected my rss-feed output, unfortunately. The empty lines that you pointed out are still there.

Do you have any other suggestions? Is there anything you can tell me about how / where wordpress sets up the RSS feed?