Magazine Basic causing error in Feedburner

  • I just activated a new WordPress installation and Feedburner is choking on the default feed. When inputting https://www.firsttracksonline.com/feed/ as my feed address into Feedburner, Feedburner responds with the following error:

    The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 284: The entity “nbsp” was referenced, but not declared.

    Looking at the source of my feed at https://www.firsttracksonline.com/feed/ I see the following at the very end, which is the only place “nbsp” shows up:

    <div style="clear:both;line-height:1px;margin:10px inherit;">&nbsp;</div></channel>
</rss>

    How in the world do I solve this? I’ve searched Magazine Basic’s php and template files but cannot find what’s generating this. I’ve scoured Google, the codex, etc. and find nothing on point.

    Thanks in advance!

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  • <div style="clear:both;line-height:1px;margin:10px inherit;">&nbsp;</div>

    is showing up on your single post pages so I assume that if you look in your header.php file you’ll find it somewhere in there.

    If you can open up your header.php file and copy the code in there, then visit https://pastebin.com/, paste the code into there and submit it and then provide the link they give you so I can look at it.

    Thread Starter FirstTracks

    (@firsttracks)

    Thanks for your help, Jarret! I just scoured header.php and I’m not seeing it, but admittedly you might see something I’m missing:

    https://pastebin.com/79L0YkDv

    Hmm looks fine to me. Do you have any plugins installed that modify your feed?

    Thread Starter FirstTracks

    (@firsttracks)

    I wouldn’t think so. I only have installed and activated:

    • Avatars
    • Co-Authors Plus
    • Downloads Manager
    • Enhanced Search Form
    • FLV Gallery
    • JW Player Plugin for WordPress
    • Simple Lightbox
    • WordPress FAQ Manager
    • WordPress Mobile Pack
    • WP Google Ad Manager Plugin

    It’s being inserted in there somehow, without being able to have access to your site its a little bit of a pain to try to figure it out.

    If you have the ability you can search through all the files in your site looking for that line of code and it should popup somewhere. If you don’t have that ability, you could package up the contents of all of your files into a .zip and send it to me so I could look through it.

    Thread Starter FirstTracks

    (@firsttracks)

    Wow, that’s a hell of an offer! I’m very grateful because what I know of PHP, CSS, etc. is only what I’ve managed to learn by trial and error over the years, and it’s not terribly strong. I’m zipping up the WP files now. I don’t see any obvious PM functionality here so how would you like for me to send it?

    Just use my name, jarretcade and its a gmail email ??

    Dont wanna post it on here directly due to spam, but you can figure it out right?

    Thread Starter FirstTracks

    (@firsttracks)

    Ha! I may be brain-dead right now but it’s not that bad. ??

    En route. Thanks again!

    Thread Starter FirstTracks

    (@firsttracks)

    Many thanks to JarretC, who discovered that the FLV Gallery plugin was inserting the suspect code.

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