Title: Strange Feed Error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Strange Feed Error

 *  [wteach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wteach/)
 * (@wteach)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-feed-error/)
 * All of a sudden, the feeds for [http://thepiratescove.us](http://thepiratescove.us)
   and [http://americanflag.thepiratescove](http://americanflag.thepiratescove) 
   are no longer working in most readers. The American flag one is using WP 2.1.
 * Checking the source, the error is because **<div style=’position:absolute; top:-
   1323px; left:-4565px’> text </div> **shows up before the <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC“-//
   W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”
    “[http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”&gt](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”&gt);
 * I have no idea where the stuff in bold is coming from. I do not have this problem
   with my test site, ncdevil.com/pc, which mirrors thepiratescove.us almost exactly,
   as it is my test site.
 * I have checked the plugins, no dice. Can’t be the themes, as get same errors 
   when change the theme.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [JeremyVisser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyvisser/)
 * (@jeremyvisser)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-feed-error/#post-652916)
 * Looks quite suspicious — maybe your server has been cracked?. Check `/index.php`—
   that is the first place I’d look. The original should only be 5 or 6 lines long.
 * Also, upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1. That is quite urgent — WordPress 2.1 has known
   security vulnerabilities, and might be the reason for a server crack.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [JeremyVisser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyvisser/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-feed-error/#post-652916)
 * Status: not resolved

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