Title: RSS Feed Error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# RSS Feed Error

 *  Resolved [Aarron Walter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aarron-walter/)
 * (@aarron-walter)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-44/)
 * My RSS feed is generating an error caused by the first line making it fail in
   Feedburner and some RSS readers: “This page contains the following errors:
    error
   on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty”
 * In Firefox the error read “XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
    Location: [http://aarronwalter.com/blog/feed/](http://aarronwalter.com/blog/feed/)
   Line Number 1, Column 1:”
 * It looks like the offending code is:
    <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
 * Here’s the validation check of my feed:
    [http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Faarronwalter.com%2Fblog%2Ffeed](http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Faarronwalter.com%2Fblog%2Ffeed)
 * The feed is at [http://aarronwalter.com/blog/feed/](http://aarronwalter.com/blog/feed/).
 * How do you go about correcting this?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-44/#post-2399885)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-rss-feed-fixer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-rss-feed-fixer/)
 *  Thread Starter [Aarron Walter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aarron-walter/)
 * (@aarron-walter)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-44/#post-2399898)
 * I’ve tried a couple of different feed fixing plugins but to no avail.
 *  [ddysart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddysart/)
 * (@ddysart)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-44/#post-2399909)
 * Without knowing what plugins you’re running, the only thing I can say is something
   is putting 19 bytes of null characters at the start of your feed. That is the
   reason it won’t validate. (The <?xml…. part has to be the very first characters)
 * The only option I know of is to start disabling plugins one-by-one to find the
   offending one.
 *  Thread Starter [Aarron Walter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aarron-walter/)
 * (@aarron-walter)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-44/#post-2399918)
 * I did go though all of my plugins and disable them one by one to see if there
   was a culprit. But no luck.
 * Any other ideas of where I could look to find those spaces being added to the
   feed? Where is the feed being generated?
 *  [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/)
 * (@alexkingorg)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-44/#post-2399919)
 * Aarron, it could be a file in your theme as well. Switching to Twenty* temporarily
   for testing purposes would help you verify this.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-44/#post-2399940)
 * Try:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 *  Thread Starter [Aarron Walter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aarron-walter/)
 * (@aarron-walter)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-44/#post-2399967)
 * Hey, Alex.
 * Your little experiment worked. When I switched themes the feed started working
   again. I went through line by line and found one line in header.php that was 
   causing the problem.
 * Thanks everyone for the help!
 *  [lyaz31](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lyaz31/)
 * (@lyaz31)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-44/#post-2400324)
 * Hello,
    Only my comments show up on a site called Bloglovin.com that is supposed
   to show images and links to all my newest posts. Bloglovin support said my feed
   is not valid. I check it and it is. I even have the plug-in “RSS Feed Validator”
   that shows it is good.
 * Bloglovin specified that the problem is when the website tries to go to [http://www.lauralily.net/feed](http://www.lauralily.net/feed)
   it is redirected to [http://lauralily.net](http://lauralily.net) and so it cannot
   grab a feed. Please help me get my comments off Bloglovin and my posts back on!
 * Thanks!
    Laura [http://www.lauralily.net](http://www.lauralily.net)
 *  [dglimited](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dglimited/)
 * (@dglimited)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error-44/#post-2400339)
 * Hello, I am getting a RSS feed error on my blog
    [Web design](http://dglimitedsite.com)
   Yet I validated the feed and also it works on tweetfeeder? can anyone help with
   to as why on the blog itself it says “An error has occurred; the feed is probably
   down. Try again later.”

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