How to Fix WordPress RSS Feeds Error - XML Parsing Error?

Recently i encountered this feeds error and my browser mozilla firefox showed me some XML Parsing Error  with the error location. Being weak at coding i just Googled this error and found that it is very common feeds error. Upon more Research i found that this error occurs if you leave Blank line before XML declaration in wordpress, which can be easily inserted by plugins.

In other words this error arises if there is a whitespace before an XML declaration( <?xml ... ?>) appears in your feed. The blank line error means that the code has blank lines in it. So basically I had to go looking for blank lines before PHP starting tag in all the php files at my blog hacker9. this was really tough and time consuming task. so i called up my friends and asked them for advice, they advised me to reinstall the wordpress which i didnt wanted to do.

After some more research i learnt that someone has already created one plugin that automatically checks all your files and fixes any issues if present. so lets see how i fixed my feeds at my blog.

Install Plugn

Download and Install "Fix RSS Feeds" Plugin.

Open Plugin page

In your Wordpress dashboard, under setting are click on "fix rss feeds" link to open plugin page.

Fixing RSS feeds Error

On the plugin page click on the Button that says "Fix WordPress RSS Feeds Error".

Updating Feedburner feed

Once you finish up with the above steps,  your internal or wordpress source feeds will start working. Now you got to Update your Feedburner Feeds. To do so login to your Feedburner feed account and goto Troubleshootize page. Here you can Re-Ping your feeds. To Re-Ping Click on the Button that says "Resync Now"

Thats it. i hope this tutorial will help you some day.