Missing RSS Feeds

https://www.emazzanti.net/feed/ doesn’t work either. Did you turn on RSS?

i was under the impression that RSS is automatically enabled. How and where would it be turned On or Off?

please advise. thanks.

I have a little more info that may help. When I go to the feed location in IE, I just get an error message saying “Feed Code Error – Internet Explorer cannot display this feed”.

But in Firefox I get a more descriptive error:

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: https://www.emazzanti.net/feed/
Line Number 5, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
^

any idea what that means or how to fix? please advise. thanks.

What kind of plugins are you using that may enhance your feeds?

https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emazzanti.net%2Ffeed%2F

You have a bunch of whitespace before your feed

Try deactivating all plugins temporarily, and testing your feed

If that doesn’t work, also switch to 2011 temporarily and test

Gotta track down where that whitespace is coming form

FYI, I picked up this project (a highly customoized wordpress site) where the last person left off so I don’t know the rational behind why certain plugins are in place but…

The plugin that’s installed and running is called RSS Pages For WordPress. I de-activated it and that did not resolve the issue.

I then tried activating a plugin called Fix RSS Feed. But that did not work. There’s a weird message on the plugins screen (where normally a brief description of the plugin would be) that says: “fix wordpress rss feed error “Error on line 2: The processing instruction target matching “[xX][mM][lL]” is not allowed.” while you burn wordpress rss feed from https://www.feedburner.com, also fix error “XML or text declaration not at start of entity” in firefox, and fix error “XML declaration not at beginning of document” in opera.” Is that description or error message???

Anyway, does this provides any insite into the direction to go in next? I’m hesitant to start disabling all the plugins and switching themes because this is a live site and we don’t yet have a development site up and running yet (that’s in the works).

Additonally, someone asked about “did you turn on RSS?” I thought RSS was auto enabled. I can’t find any RSS on/off switch. Am I missing something?

Please advise. Thanks!

Yup, that’s the error I was pointing to in my above post. Did you deactivate ALL plugins and test?

Something is introducing white space into your code

could be a plugin, could be your theme.

So, common troubleshooting is to deactivate ALL plugins, and test your feed

if that doesn’t work, switch to 2011 theme and test your feed.

pinpoint where the space is coming from