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  secondchancetolive · Member · Feb 23, 2007 at 10:59 pm

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  I have been investigating the various widget snd have attempted to understand what value they provide to my site. The matter of Entries and Comments RSS widget that I place on the cover of my blog is a mystery to me. Please explain to me the extra value added by having them remain on my web page? I do not know how to read code, as when I click on either one of these RSS options.

  Thanks again for your help.

  Craig

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  judyb12 · Member · Feb 23, 2007 at 11:03 pm

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  Those aren’t widgets. They are there for people to sign up for your feeds. The reason you get a page with some code on it when you click on them is you don’t have a feed reader set up in your browser.

  The RSS widget that you can add to your side bar is for you to show other bloggers’ RSS feeds on your site.

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  secondchancetolive · Member · Feb 23, 2007 at 11:46 pm

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  Thanks so much judy. Which feed reader would you suggest?

  Have a great weekend.

  Craig

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  cornell · Member · Feb 24, 2007 at 10:06 am

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  I use Google Reader as a nice online tool to use. Others prefer bloglines and there are many offline readers you can download too, none of which I can remember the name of at the moment!

  HTH

  Collin

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  judyb12 · Member · Feb 24, 2007 at 10:08 am

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  I just use the built-in feed reader in Firefox (i’m not very sophisticated when it comes to feeds).

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  secondchancetolive · Member · Feb 24, 2007 at 2:57 pm

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  Hi Judy,
  Hmm. Interesting. I have Firefox and it is not reading my feeds in WP.com. What is up with that. Somebody help me. Thanks.

  Craig

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  judyb12 · Member · Feb 24, 2007 at 3:46 pm

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  I think you’ll have to check with Firefox support on that one…

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  drmike · Member · Feb 24, 2007 at 6:21 pm

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  Are you getting an error of some sort? How is it not working?

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  secondchancetolive · Member · Feb 24, 2007 at 7:39 pm

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  Dr.Mike,
  Not sure who you are asking the question to…judy or me? I use firefox, however their feed reader is not working in WP.com for me. Any suggestions, Dr. Mike which feedreader would be the best for me and the least likely that I will insert the wrong codex? I am a little bit finicky when it comes to copying and pasting such information. Do not want to have my blog fall into a deep dark hole.

  Thanks for you help and insight on this matter.

  Craig

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  judyb12 · Member · Feb 24, 2007 at 7:42 pm

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  Craig,

  DrMike was asking you; i’m not having a problem ;-)

  Anyway, here’s a link to Firefox’s support page regarding feeds. Take a look at it, because even if you end up not using FF for your feed reader, it will give you some basic info about feeds in general.
  http://kb.mozillazine.org/RSS_feeds_(Firefox)

  Good luck