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Thanks for your reply, Krishan. I’ve backed up my site, and then updated twenty-twelve theme (it was the only one displaying an update-now box to click, but my theme is Switch v1.1 by Adrian Diaconescu, and I do not see where I can update that one.

If you’re suggesting that I re-upload Switch from the zip file I got after I bought it, then that’s not a very simple fix to this issue, because I would have to go back and re-customize everything (which includes horizontal-spacing changes I made to the CSS), right?

According to the search results I get when I type in & # 038;, there are many other users who are suffering from this same magical code appearance snafu (<p> randomly and && changed to & # 038; & # 038;) that’s wreaking havoc with my externally supplied form code. Is there any other solution besides re-downloading the theme and re-configuring it?

Mopartners.com/agility/customer-profitability/

I finally found my answer after HOURS of tinkering, searching, noodling. By clicking on the ‘help’ link within the error message I got at https://validator.w3.org/feed/, I was directed to remove all blank lines between the <? and ?> brackets in 4 files: wp-rss2.php, wp-atom.php, wp-config.php, functions.php. Just thought I’d close the loop on this in case there are other folks with the same challenge.

FYI – I was able to copy over my theme files and WordPress files using my FTP software, which updated both. The instructions for upgrading WordPress turned out to be easier than using the automatic upgrade plug-in. I figured out I don’t need to worry about so-called placeholders. I’m still having RSS issues.

FYI – here’s the code I’m using in my header.php file:

HEAD SECTION

<rss version=”2.0″ xmlns:atom=”https://www.w3.org/2005/Atom”&gt;
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> RSS Feed” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/atom+xml” title=”<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> Atom Feed” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘atom_url’); ?>” />

NAVIGATION SECTION
” id=”feed” title=”Subscribe”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/feed.gif” alt=”RSS Feed” />
<atom:link href=”https://clearaction.biz/blog/rss.xml&#8221; rel=”self” type=”application/rss+xml” />

Not sure what’s wrong with this! Can you please advise?