Title: RSS feed error.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS feed error.

 *  [benrad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benrad/)
 * (@benrad)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error/)
 * I’m getting the following error when attempting to open the RSS feed to my site:
   
   XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity
   Location: [http://www.3mote.com/wp-rss.php](http://www.3mote.com/wp-rss.php) 
   Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″?><!– generator=”wordpress/1.0.1″ –
   > ^ any ideas?

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 *  Thread Starter [benrad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benrad/)
 * (@benrad)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error/#post-34714)
 * Yes, I did notice that it started working after a little while…Thanks, I’ll fix
   up the code.
 *  Thread Starter [benrad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benrad/)
 * (@benrad)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error/#post-34716)
 * Is this what’s supposed to appear in the wp-rss and wp-rss2 files?
    <?php echo“
   <?xml version=\”1.0\”?”.”>”; ?> <!– generator=”wordpress/<?php echo $wp_version?
   >” –> Thanks. Ben
 *  Thread Starter [benrad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benrad/)
 * (@benrad)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error/#post-34781)
 * Does anyone else get this error when they open the wp-rss2.php file? I’m using
   the standard file that came with the installation.
 *  [philor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philor/)
 * (@philor)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error/#post-34813)
 * Do you have PHP auto-prepending something? You’re getting an XML/HTML comment
   surrounding a PHP comment saying “Author link to posts hack” as the first line
   of wp-rss.php’s output, and in XML you can’t have anything, not even a blank 
   line or a space, before the <?xml … line. So wherever that “Author link to posts
   hack” line is coming from, it needs to go away.
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error/#post-34818)
 * I would double-check your my-hacks file and make sure there’s nothing outside
   the `<php ?>` tags.
 *  Thread Starter [benrad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benrad/)
 * (@benrad)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error/#post-34991)
 * ahhh, yes, I guess I can’t comment the my-hacks file. That was it. Thanks.

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 * Last activity: [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-error/#post-34991)
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