RSS feeds not working

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When I try to access our RSS feed I am now seeing this error:

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://feeds.feedburner.com/dailysundial
Line Number 1, Column 2: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
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Anyone know what this is and how it can be fixed?

Thanks.

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Hi,

Try to disable all plugins and see if the issue is still there.
You can also check this solution – http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10446408/xml-parsing-error-xml-or-text-declaration-not-at-start-of-entity-in-wordpress-fe

Thank you, Emil G.

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I have the same problem. Disabled all plugin ins also. please help.

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@sundial
You have images in your RSS feed, such as this:
https://thedailysundial.camayak.com/media/f173e1cf-8e7f-4c7d-b726-7b6a29098172/1ea00224-a218-4273-8770-f280856a4f44.jpg?thumbnail=true

Those break in the feed, and if pasted into web browser, ask for login/password.

Also be aware, Google hasn’t really updated Feedburner in years, and may or may not survive their next big purge. We still use it for daily emails for some subscribers, but you will also find numerous issues with your feed as so:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Fdailysundial

Using your built-in feed and customizing that by building a custom RSS feed, is often a better solution until Google decides what they intend to do with their “orphan” Feedburner.

Also be aware anything with https is kind of funky in RSS feeds, also (enclosures with https images will very often set off a validation error!).

Feedburner feeds have nothing to do with the theme, as the theme does nothing to modify the main RSS feeds from WordPress, AFAIK.

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