Title: feed error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# feed error

 *  Resolved [drewshen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewshen/)
 * (@drewshen)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-error-10/)
 * hi i am referencing a link to my wordpress feed with get_bloginfo(‘rss2_url’).
   i haven’t modified or done anything to the feed file, but when i click the link
   it says:
 *     ```
       XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
       Location: http://www.hollyviewmusic.com/feed/
       Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
       ^
       ```
   
 * The Location is my rss url if you would like to reproduce, is there something
   i need to modify in my feed in order to get this to work? much obliged

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 *  [kim09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kim09/)
 * (@kim09)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-error-10/#post-1437685)
 * Hey dreshen,
    The code is usually in header.php, usually looks like this : `<
   link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name');?
   > RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />`
 * [link moderated – if you have videos and tutorials that are helpful please submit
   them to [http://wordpress.tv/](http://wordpress.tv/) and use those links]
 *  Thread Starter [drewshen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewshen/)
 * (@drewshen)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-error-10/#post-1437695)
 * thank you for the help and for the very cool video 🙂 i have set up feedburner
   before and like it alot. i verified that the code you listed exists in my header.
   php just as you described it.
 * if you notice in your video at around the 49 second mark you click the rss icon
   and it takes you to google by default? my question is with the particular feed
   i am working on i am receiving that xml error instead, when i am expecting it
   to take me to google as in the video. is there something wrong with this feed?
 *  [kim09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kim09/)
 * (@kim09)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-error-10/#post-1437698)
 * Have you tried to change to default template? and look where the entries rss 
   goes?
 *  Thread Starter [drewshen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewshen/)
 * (@drewshen)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-error-10/#post-1437702)
 * strange, it works for the default template. i am trying to see if there is something
   different between the default and my own template.
 *  Thread Starter [drewshen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewshen/)
 * (@drewshen)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-error-10/#post-1437709)
 * got it! went through the steps on this site:
 * [http://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/error/WPBlankLine.html](http://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/error/WPBlankLine.html)
 * and used the validator on my feed, once i got rid of any blank lines it worked.
 * thank you again for your help, i appreciate it.
 *  [kim09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kim09/)
 * (@kim09)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-error-10/#post-1437717)
 * Congratulations, So glad to hear it 🙂

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
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 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-error-10/#post-1437717)
 * Status: resolved

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