Title: RSS feed doesn’t work., error message Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # RSS feed doesn’t work., error message * [missmel58](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missmel58/) * (@missmel58) * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-doesnt-work-error-message/) * My blog is up and running ([http://mejones.net](http://mejones.net)). Sort of. I am using Vladimir Prelovac’s theme “Amazing Grace”. * I tried to add my blog to Facebook’s blog network — and was told it could not connect to my blog via rss — soooo… I went and clicked on the RSS links on the page and received the following error message: * XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location: [http://mejones.net/blog/feed/](http://mejones.net/blog/feed/) Line Number 2, Column 1: * Changing the theme makes no difference; I continue to get this message. If there is something in the admin panel I need to click to activate the rss feed, I cannot find it. Any help appreciated. * I googled the error message and found a forum post that suggested that I re-paste the post uing notepad, instead of MSword. I did that — and it then sent the feed to my facebook page, I am assuming using an RSS feed. But when one clicks on the RSS links on my blog the error message still occurs. Mel Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Thread Starter [missmel58](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missmel58/) * (@missmel58) * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-doesnt-work-error-message/#post-846108) * So, after hours of searching for answers. I know what is CAUSING the rss to create an error message. There is an extra line before the code…somewhere. When I load my blog and view source there is indeed an extra line — which I will gladly delete. But I have opened several files and not found the matching code. * As I had edited no files prior to discovering this issue, I am unsure how the problem was created…but I really want to fix it. * Could someone PLEASE give me some direction? Please? * Mel * Thread Starter [missmel58](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missmel58/) * (@missmel58) * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-doesnt-work-error-message/#post-846134) * bump * [moonglampers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moonglampers/) * (@moonglampers) * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-doesnt-work-error-message/#post-846206) * Hello. I had the same error. The problem was that there was an errant blank space( or two, or three, or more) outside of the php script brackets in several of the *.php pages in my main WordPress directory. I am not sure which one it was, but once I made sure there was no “white space” outside of the brackets, my RSS feed worked fine. Hope this helps! * [flyaga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flyaga/) * (@flyaga) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-doesnt-work-error-message/#post-846316) * Please try this plugin fix-rss-feed, it will fix your rss error automatically, and you can get more information from [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fix-rss-feed/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fix-rss-feed/), and you also can get help from the author website [http://www.flyaga.info/en/wordpress/plugins/fix-rss-feed-error-wordpress-plugins.htm](http://www.flyaga.info/en/wordpress/plugins/fix-rss-feed-error-wordpress-plugins.htm) * [Vineeta Greenwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scamperbranding/) * (@scamperbranding) * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-doesnt-work-error-message/#post-846388) * Had the same error. Tried suggested plugin. It found 1655 faults and fixed them. But feed still doesn’t work. Message has now changed slightly though to: * > XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity > Location: > [http://www.scamperbranding.com/feed/](http://www.scamperbranding.com/feed/) > Line Number 3, Column 1: ^ * Any ideas? It used to work fine but we just upgraded to latest version of WP. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘RSS feed doesn’t work., error message’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 5 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Vineeta Greenwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scamperbranding/) * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-doesnt-work-error-message/#post-846388) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics