Title: Feed validation failed
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Feed validation failed

 *  [Ricky Shah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ricky709/)
 * (@ricky709)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-validation-failed/)
 * Hello friends,
    Recently I upgraded to wordpress 2.9. I am facing the problem
   with the feed validation. It says that there is a blank line before <?xml…… declaration.
   How can I resolve it? Is it problem due to theme(which I don’t doubt)or some 
   wp files like wp-rss.php and all?

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 *  [henkholland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/)
 * (@henkholland)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-validation-failed/#post-1327499)
 * He Ricky, better not do double posting.
    I answered here. [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/347034?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/347034?replies=2)
 *  [Shane G.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g-1/)
 * (@shane-g-1)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-validation-failed/#post-1327508)
 * Hi,
 * Check with this plugin:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podcasting/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/podcasting/)
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * (@mrmist)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-validation-failed/#post-1327516)
 * Closing as dupe of [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/347034?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/347034?replies=2)

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## Tags

 * [feed validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/feed-validation/)
 * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/)
 * [wordpress 2.9](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-2-9/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-validation-failed/#post-1327516)
 * Status: not resolved

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