Editing the Widget with RSS feeds
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I would like to have a widget on my sidebar that allows me to offer RSS feeds, without also offering the ability to login, go to siteadmin, etc. Right now I am using the META widget, and I don’t see a way to remove those additional options. Is there any other way to accomplish this? I do have the option to edit my CSS code, but if it’s done in there, I don’t know how to do it yet. Thank you for any help!
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A search of the FAQ’s for “rss” brought this: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/put-your-feed-in-your-sidebar/ .
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Thank you…I just did this, and it has a little problem…the icon isn’t showing up as it should. No matter what I type in there and save, it deletes part of the code and puts this in there:
The blog feed link is there, but no icon. How do I get the blog feed icon to show up? Thanks!
(if it matters, I tried typing it exactly as shown on the instructions from the link above using the words “image-location”. I also tried using one of the image addresses for the icon in place of the words “image-location”…both were deleted.)
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Well, I pasted the blog feed code into the post above, but it didn’t show up. I think you can see the code on my blog, though?
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I did that…and now it shows up on my blog with backticks around the little line that represents the feed. The icon is still missing. I feel like I should tell it somewhere what icon I want to use…where do I put that code? (I’m sorry if this is a dumb question.)
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LOL…sorry…
And I finally got it to work! So for anyone else who would read this in the future, here is the code that worked…
<a href="//rememberthepoor.wordpress.com/feed”"><img src="//faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/j28.png" /></a> -
Actually, that code above doesn’t work…it has an extra quotation mark. Here is the code that works:
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Let me try that again…
<a href="//rememberthepoor.wordpress.com/feed"><img src="//faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/j28.png" /></a> -
You had two quote marks at the end of the href statement. Copy the below and use it. I have checked it and it works. Where it says “Post Feed” you can change it to whatever you want and the text will display to the right of the RSS icon to help identify it.
<p><a href="http://rememberthepoor.wordpress.com/feed/"><img src="http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/j28.png" alt="" /> </a> Post Feed</p> -
Another note, always use the full URL starting with http:// instead of relative URL’s. Relative URL’s will more times than not get you into trouble.
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