ventz

@alanfuller Ah – did not know you adopted it.

Thanks for adding it.

I can confirm that this is what breaks OpenLDAP currently.

Changing it fixes it.

Check out this thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/173036?replies=30

I Finally found the *real* problem (it was in the Theme).

So in the functions.php (in the Theme “Beautiful Sunrise” you have to find lines: “43”, “70”, and “71” (they are all blank) and remove them. Please find all 3 of them before you remove the 1st, as they will shift ??

This fixes it.

I am assuming that everyone else who has disabled their plugins and is STILL having a problem has the same type of problem with their theme — take a look inside that file. I found that to be a problem with 14 of our users — their functions.php file for their theme contained blank spaces between the <?php … ?> lines.

Otto,

My apologies. After spending some time and really looking around I found out that it is my theme (beautiful_sunrise) that is doing the “breakage”. I will try to find out why/where and post back.

Yes, you are right, but it’s a working “quick-fix” ?? I do plan on looking into it eventually though. I am assuming here:

<?php
/**
 * RSS2 Feed Template for displaying RSS2 Posts feed.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=' . get_option('blog_charset'), true);
$more = 1;

?>
<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.   get_option('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>

Maybe it’s something in the header? I don’t have any plug-ins enabled and I am not sure what else could be putting the empty spaces.

CORRECTION: It’s not, I played with that file. It’s something else that’s calling that one.

ventz’s “solution” is incorrect and will not work. WordPress does not have any “bug” with this section of code, and the feeds work fine. However, other things, such as plugins, can mess them up.

I don’t agree with you Otto. I have all my plugins disabled, the only thing I have is a custom theme. This is the case on all of the blogs that we run for different faculty and staff at my work. The RSS/Atom feeds do not work under Firefox and Safari. I am not sure under IE as I haven’t personally checked. As soon as we commented out the <?xml line, everyone’s feeds started working. I understand what the bigger problem is, but I didn’t have time to look into it (about the blank lines before the xml declaration). This might not be a “nice” solution, but it is in fact A solution.

Hey Everyone,

So just like everyone else here, I ran into the same thing, and it *really* annoyed me because most of my friends use RSS to follow me (i mean come on, who uses the browser now a days — we all do it from our cellphones ;)). Anyway, after busting my head for a few hours trying to learn how wordpress works, here’s the solution to everyone’s problem:

https://vpetkov.net/blog/bugs/

Let me repeat, SOLUTION HERE^^^

Good luck. Feel free to comment here/email me if you need any more info/help.