Adding Rss or email subscription to body of Blog
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And from here, I did go to the other site and create a beautiful blog very quickly and painlessly, without anyone’s help at all. It even allows my RSS feeds. I really did want to try out this site, but it was too confusing.
The End.
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Epilogue: I’ll offer a couple things in case you come back to this thread.
Now that you are self-hosted, all security, all upgrades, all installations, all backups and all troubleshooting is your responsibility. At wordpress.com, you have a dedicated team of over 100 people that do all that for you. You are now that dedicated team. Backups are seriously, seriously important. You are now (sadly to say) in a much less protected environment (out in the “wild” on the web). If someone hacks your site (and there is a high likelihood someone will at some point) and they get in, you can lose everything, or have your site turned into a malware distribution center and have your web host shut you down. At that time, if you have a clean backup, you can be back up and running in a couple hours. If you do not have a clean backup, it can be a painstaking several days of going through hundreds of files to cleanse them of the hacker-droppings. If you install a theme or a plugin that kills your site (again, sadly there are many badly written ones that will) then it will be up to you to crawl into the the backend of your site and fix that.
I’m not trying to scare you, but I am trying to make you vigilant and realize that regular backups are seriously important if you care about your content (as most do). This all comes from my experience as a web designer who has made a lot of money off of fixing sites that have been hacked or compromised in some way.
1. Keep up with upgrades, especially any that are security related.
2. Know from where you are getting themes and plugins. Do not download them from the trunk of a car or from some guy standing on a corner.
3. Do backups regularly and make sure they include everything including the database and keep them in a safe location.
4. Use a very strong password (if you can remember it, it ain’t strong enough) and change that password every couple months at least. This includes the password on your email address (that is tied to your site) and the password for the cPanel on your hosting account. -
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Where will I find the code for the RSS widget or other than can be inserted into the content?
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@mtolivechurch1
All WordPress blogs have multiple feeds built in. All widgets here at WordPress.com can only be used in sidebar areas or footer areas coded for widgets. We cannot install widgets on pages or posts and use them to auto-fill pages or posts with content. Automated blogs are not allowed.
RSS Widget
RSS Links Widget
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