prettyprincess

so wierd – it’s totally not working for us ??

We have a yellow page with an error that says…

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: https://prettyprincessgirls.com/feed/
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
^

hmmm – one problem though – the links were not responding to adding the code you provided :\ We read where other people were not getting a response from that code either. We tried several times and that code does not remove the links, so we did not know what else to do :\.

NO WONDER!!!!

YAY! For anyone else having this issue we found it on another message board.

Thank you for you help Mark / t31os but we found out that the answer you were giving us applies to older versions of WordPress. We are using 3.01 and we found on another message board that this code was removed from functions.php after version 3.0.

Here is the answer…

To remove these links from your wp_head you need to go to:

wp-includes/default-filters.php

all of these head links can be found in…

// Actions

we removed…

add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘parent_post_rel_link’, 10, 0 );
add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘start_post_rel_link’, 10, 0 );
add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head’, 10, 0 );

and voilà! annoying links gone.

We don’t know if those links are important for other functions, but it is not causing anything to go wrong on our site.

Hope this helps someone else! ??

So Sorry – we truly appreciate your help – but this is still not making any sense to us.

We get what your saying process wise, but this still requires us to figure out what code the original action is in our file – which we can’t. We don’t know what’s causing these links to be there – so we can’t respond to it with a removal code.

this code does not exist in our functions.php file…

add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘start_post_rel_link’, 10, 0 );
add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head’, 10, 0 );

so adding this…

remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘start_post_rel_link’, 10, 0 );
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘adjacent_posts_rel_link’, 10, 0);

doesn’t work :\

What we really need is someone who knows the exact code we need to add or remove in the specific file of WordPress version WordPress 3.0.1.

So sorry, we’re just not programmers, so we do not know how to decipher what code causes what… we really need a clear cut or paste answer if anyone has it?

Thank you!

heyyyy,

we really appreciate the help – thank you truly – however, we are not programmers :\ Our knowledge of php is enough to edit what we are told to edit.

Your answer is a little over our heads… is there anyway to dumb it down for us? :D:D ??

We mean basic like…

“post this exact code in this file” or “remove this exact code in this file”

Sorry – we’re very php un-intelligent.

Thank you! ??

heyyy…

GREAT NEWS. your response prompted us to call GO Daddy again, because now we know we are not crazy and others are having the issue!

We just got off the phone with them, and they are finally admitting that it is something on their end!

The customer service associate we had just informed us that is IS now a known database issue and that they are working on fixing it. Not sure how long that will be, but atleast now we know we can stop killing ourselves trying to fix a problem with our websites that isn’t there, and that it will soon be a fixed issue.

Hope that helps!

K…

we do truly appreciate the suggestions, so we’re going to start taking them in…

First Lukich – thank you, we have to admit the suggestions are a little over our head lol…

1. Deflating your content on the server – what does that mean we would do?

2. using minified version of jquery and using CSS sprites should speed up your page. – what does this mean doing?

Its interesting also that you say format hasn’t changed in two years but you also mention WP 2.9.1. So something has changed, and it was something big. Are you sure that all of your plugins and theme code is still compatible with the WP core?

well that’s exactly the point :\ the only factor that has changed is WordPress Upgrades.

What we meant hasn’t changed is the design and the usage of the third party content… those have been the same since the launch of the sites. I pointed that out because the site has been perfectly fast with all the third party content, images, and same design up until this point. :\

hmmm well – we can’t remove ads – they are how the site generates income :\

But not sure how that can be the issue anyway. We have had this same design and format with everything you see there for about 2 years on one site, and over a year on the other site. The speed issue and dashboard issues have only started in the past 2 weeks.

Also again – not sure how anything third party could be causing the random page.php file to open when we are trying to save, update, and edit – that’s a wordpress template file so it makes the most sense that the WordPress is having a problem :\

Well it isn’t local for certain…

1. We have very high speed internet and all other websites are instant :\ Our sites are the only ones with the issue.

2. Two of us are in Tennessee and two of us are in California and all 4 of us are getting the issue. So, other people in other states are getting the same issue.

3. It was slow for the people at Godaddy also – they just couldn’t connect the issue to anything related to the server or the database.

4. Also, an internet speed issue would not cause the blank page.php file that pops open when we are actually trying to save, update, or edit.

We have seen other people with this issue posting in boards – is there any way to contact WordPress as it truly seems like it might possibly be a WordPress Issue :\