Code for RSS disappears in Text Widget- Why?
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I’m not great with html, but I thought I followed all the directions at the “put your feed in your sidebar page” correctly. However, when I hit “save changes”, the img parts of the code vanish. The part identifying the feed for my blog stays.
So instead of:
<a
href=”http://foodmapper.wordpress.com/feed”><img
src=”http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/c28.png”/>I get:
<a
href=”http://foodmapper.wordpress.com/feed”><img>, and nothing showing up on the sidebar.Also, once I ended up with just <img> in the text widget.
What am I doing wrong? Is it something to do with the spacing/new lines of the code? The sample code has the beginning as:
<a href, ec. but when type it into the text widget I always get a return instead of a space, e.g.:<a
href, etc.Thanks for any insight you have!
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I successfully placed the feed icon/link into your sidebar – please head over to your blog in order to view it. It looks like the opening quotations you are using in that code were actually closing quotations. Replacing the quotations fixed the issue.
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I have a similar situation to the one above. I am trying to add the widget to put my feed in my sidebar. What I have got instead is a little blue box with a question mark in it. Clicking on it does bring up my feed, but I’d like the right symbol. Someone has asked to subscribe to my blog, and I’m guessing I need this symbol for them to do so.
I am a bit baffled by the whole concept of subscribing! I subscribed to one blog recently to try to see out how it works, and when I clicked on their orange symbol it took me to a page with options of several different readers, of which I chose one. Do I need to set up something like this for my readers? And if so, how do I do it?
(My blog is http://inquiringparent.com)I am grateful for any help, as I am still fairly new to blogging and find a lot of the technical aspects baffling!
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That’s coded into the Meta widget and you can’t change that. But you can use an RSS widget or text widget with the orange RSS symbol.
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Thank you for your reply raincoaster.
I’d read both the FAQs you list and was following the instructions on the first when I ran into trouble. I discovered I’d missed a dot out, and got the correct symbol after that, however everything on my sidebar then disappeared – blogroll etc. I’ve been reading through the forum and thought this might have been because of one post I pasted in from Word, but I deleted the Word text and redid it. I use a Mac, and generally I written posts in TextEdit, which I think is the Mac’s equivalent of Notepad, and then pasted into the WordPress editor. (I’m using the Pool Theme with my own image in the heading, in case the disappearing blogroll is linked to that.)And sorry to take more of your time, but I’m not sure what you mean is coded into the Meta widget – do you mean the page with the feed reader options is coded into it? If so, I didn’t get that when I clicked on the RSS symbol I briefly got on my blog. It just brought me to the feed page. Can someone subscribe from this page?
Thank you for your time.
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The meta widget shows links to your post and comment feeds. Those, in the meta widget, cannot be edited. A lot of people will simply bookmark your RSS feed, and then read it through their browser rather than say, through feedburner, yahoo, or another reader.
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Thanks, thesacredpath, that helps a lot with the subscribing question! Now I can simply e-mail the person who wants to subscribe and suggest they do that. I don’t need that orange widget for people to do that do I – since that page comes up without it?
And it’s nice of you to think ‘a lot of people’ will bookmark my RSS – so far I have yet to gather a lot of people to read my blog!! I just took a look at yours, and liked what I saw. -
@yvms, You’re very welcome, and thanks for the compliment. As long as you have the meta widget in your sidebar, there is really no need to have it in a text widget with the icon. The icon is more visible though and most people are familiar with it and recognize it as RSS. Probably a toss up.
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And the reason that everything in your sidebar vanished is that, when you first start editing your sidebar, it goes blank except for what you add. You did nothing wrong there; it’s just a surprising way WP.com works.
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And the reason that everything in your sidebar vanished is that, when you first start editing your sidebar, it goes blank except for what you add. You did nothing wrong there; it’s just a surprising way WP.com works.
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Thank you again both thesacredpath and raincoaster. And good to know I did nothing wrong – I really feel like I’m stepping in the dark most with this. If I put the icon back on will the blogroll eventually come back or do I need to input it all again?
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thesacredpath and raincoaster, thank you so much to you both for your help. I now have everything I need in my sidebar – and the blog looks so much better than it did before!
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