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RSS Feed Problem

I am currently receiving this error when I try to view the feed:

error on line 10 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document

http://markforsman.com/wordpress/feed/

I have even tried to go back to the default theme and it does not fix anything. I've disabled all plugins and it does not effect it. I have uploaded the entire contents of my wordpress directory as a zip.

the zip file (updated with just theme and wp-config file)

I am using the theme, "portfolio" as a child theme of thematic.

Hopefully someone can help.

Thanks for your time,
MDF

Mark F. | 07/26/10 at 7:51pm | Edit

3.0, feed, head, rss

(3) Possible Answers Submitted...

Last edited:
07/26/10
9:09pm
Pippin Williamson says:
Try the solution in this link:

http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2009/05/wordpress-feed-xml-parsing-errors/
- 07/26/10 8:29pm
  
  Mark F. says:
  Thanks for the attempt, I tried the plugin linked at the end of that post and although it seemed to find a whole bunch of problems, it did not fix the error I was receiving.
- 07/26/10 8:32pm
  
  Pippin Williamson says:
  If you could provide me log in information via email (pippin@pippinspages.com), I'd be more than happy to log in and fix your theme files.
- 07/26/10 8:42pm
  
  Mark F. says:
  I am not comfortable with giving out my login right now, i've uploaded a lighter zip file to help provide you guys with what you need. I hope you can understand my desire to keep my info private.
- 07/26/10 8:45pm
  
  Pippin Williamson says:
  I have fixed your problem.
  
  Try out the attached zip.
  
  Attached Image
- 07/26/10 9:07pm
  
  Mark F. says:
  I implemented your fix and it didn't change anything. However I found the problem in the gigthumbs and thumbs.php files. Both you and wjm contributed to the code that I'm now using so I will be splitting the award between the two of you. Thanks for all of the insight and help.
Last edited:
07/26/10
8:07pm
Tiago Duarte says:
Hello there Sir,

I believe it is caused by the white space before the XML declaration <?xml ... ?>.

You can read more about it here: http://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/error/WPBlankLine.html

If you require further assistance, please contact me.

Thank you
Last edited:
07/26/10
9:09pm
wjm says:
5 blank lines are being added to the beginning of your output.

Not only does it happen in your rss feed, but in every document of your site,
check,
http://markforsman.com/wordpress/
or http://markforsman.com/wordpress/other/new-website/

if you give me access to your site (ftp) i can fix it.

you may have something blank lines in your functions.php or your header.php file.
- 07/26/10 8:09pm
  
  wjm says:
  btw, where is the zip file so i can read the source files.
- 07/26/10 8:20pm
  
  wjm says:
  from what i can peek,
  http://markforsman.com/wordpress/wp-config.php
  has is printing 3 blank lines.
  
  as well as
  http://markforsman.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/portfolio/functions.php
  
  so you need to make sure you dont have blank lines
  before and after <?php and ?>
  
  pay special attention at the end of the files.
- 07/26/10 8:31pm
  
  Mark F. says:
  After editing the files you mentioned and running a plugin to clean up the others that were found I am still having an error appear, it has changed to
  
  error on line 2 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
  
  I'm currently downloading the files again and I will update the zip. Thank you so far for your suggestions.
- 07/26/10 8:34pm
  
  wjm says:
  yes, i see your blank lines decreased, you should avoid including images in your zip file as it weights 36 MB (still downloading)
  
  maybe create a zip for the theme folder. and your wp-config.php
- 07/26/10 8:37pm
  
  Mark F. says:
  Shoot! Sorry about that, here's a zip with just the theme files and the wp-config:
  
  http://www.markforsman.com/wordpress2.zip
- 07/26/10 8:51pm
  
  wjm says:
  I think the problem is in your childtheme_menu() function in your porfolio/functions.php file
  attached is the file
  or you can download it from here
  
  http://wordpress.pastebin.com/dU7CtSAQ
- 07/26/10 9:06pm
  
  Mark F. says:
  I implemented your fix and it didn't change anything. However I found the problem in the gigthumbs and thumbs.php files. Both you and Pippin contributed to the code that I'm now using so I will be splitting the award between the two of you. Thanks for all of the insight and help.
- 07/26/10 9:08pm
  
  wjm says:
  no problem, i am glad you could sort things out.
  -wjm