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Figured out with the Health Check plugin ther is a conflict between Rank Math and my theme (Astra + Astra child),which causes an error: when i try to open the link to my website sitemap (all index,pages or posts sitemap)
the link is opened but the sitemap is not shown, there is a red box reporting:
“This page contains the following errors:
error on line 4 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.”is there any way to fix it? please help. thank you
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.
The error on your sitemap page suggests there must be some white spaces before the XML Sitemap’s source code. This might be added by a blank line/space in your wp-config.php file or your theme’s functions.php file.
If there is no such blank space in your wp-config.php or functions.php file, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
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