Adding an RSS feed?
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I’m new to WordPress. In Blogger it’s very easy to add an RSS feed to your blog, but I just can’t understand what to do here. Any help would be appreciated. All I want is for people to be automatically updated when I add to the blog. If that makes sense? Thanks.
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The RSS feed is with every blog by default, unless the blog is set to private. This will help you. :)
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Thanks for your reply. I’m pretty sure my blog is not set to Private, though I can’t find where in the menu I could find out. And I can’t see a feed symbol on the blog.
I’ve tried what it says in the FAQ:
2. Where is my feed?
Just add /feed/ to your blog address. So for this blog the feed is at http://faq.wordpress.com/feed/when someone clicks the address link to the blog, Firefox gives them a drop down asking for a name, and a folder to create it in? Sounds like people would be forced into having a feed?
Sorry I may not be using the correct technical terms!
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Their default program would save the feed. I’d say pretty much all people who subscribe to feeds knwo what they have to do with it. :)
You can also place your feed in the sidebar: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/put-your-feed-in-your-sidebar/
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OK, now I really must sound like an idiot. What do I put in where it says ”image-location”?
Type the following:
<img src=”image-location” />This is all very confusing for someone who knows nothing about code.
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I hear your sentiment. :( Same with you, I am having a hard time doing this. Can someeon pls help? thanks
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Really? Sorry to hear that as I guess us “usual suspects” seem to take things for granted. Let me help! An example for each of you might be the following for a text widget:
For paulkilgour:
<a href=”http://paulkilgour.wordpress.com/feed”><img src=”http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/a28.png” /></a>For derickpt: (using different image off the FAQ page)
<a href=”http://derickpt.wordpress.com/feed”><img src=”http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/c28.png” /></a>:)
Trent
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Don’t worry, it seems difficult at the start, but once you’ve done it a few times, it’ll seem easy! :)
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I’ve done that using the text widget, right? Still nothing. I still don’t have an RSS symbol on the page, and not everybody knows you can subscribe from the menu. It says ‘subscribe’, but nothing to click on.
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Did you copy exactly what Trent posted for you?
1. Dashboard -> Presentation -> Widgets
2. Move a text widget from the bottom box to the top box.
3. Paste Trent’s text in.
4. Save and it should be there. -
Boy, talk about not intuitive! This is information that should be easy to do right from the blog software and we have to go to a forum for it? That’s truly awful.
I went thru the same thing as Paul. I moved the RSS box to my left sidebar and still no RSS. My blog address is http://quickdrawartist.wordpress.com/, so NOW what do I do?
My email: quickcardatgmaildotcom
Thanks
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In presentation > widgets, click on the icon on the right end of the RSS widget and paste the URL of the RSS feed that you want to display into it.
Do note that the RSS widget will not show your feed. It is meant to display the feed from other sites.
If you want a link people can click to get to your RSS feed, then this should help: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/put-your-feed-in-your-sidebar/
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I pasted the exact text into my text widget, and get just the red-x-of-graphic-not found.
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Ah – pasting the text gives spurious quotation marks. Deleting those makes it work fine.
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Deleting the quotes does indeed work. It makes one wonder why they were put there in the first place. Some of us know nothing about HTML – and why should we – and wouldn’t think there was anything wrong with it. Bloody mad. Taken me nearly 3 days to sort this stuff out, all because of that.
Now all I want is the word ‘Subscribe’ next to it, NOT above it. Any ideas?
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