Feed link seems incorrect
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Folks, I’m new to wordpress, and just set up a blog. The RSS link on the page contains:
feed:http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/feed/
However if I set this up in Feedreader, it reports, “feed doesn’t contain any items”
I played with it and if I link to:http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/rss
I get the posts, but I don’t think I’m notified of new posts.
I’m concerned that anyone subscribing to my blog will get nothing.
Jon
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cairnpoint, thanks for the reply. However, I’m not clear on your answer: what do I reset?
Jon
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Hi Matt, thanks for checking. That link works fine, yes, but that’s not quite the link that appears. So if a user was to cut and paste the link into their newsreader, they would get “feed:http://jonpatch.wordpress/feed” which does not work.
Jon
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Yeah, it’s a bug in the theme. You’re supposed to click directly on the link rather than cut and paste it. But people who don’t have a feedreader installed and are wanting to subscribe through bloglines or another web-based service will be in trouble as their browser will choke on it.
I’d suggest putting an additional link to http://jonpatch.wordpress.com/feed/ in your blogroll so that everyone can subscribe without problems.
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OK, that makes sense, and that’s a good workaround, thank you. I did change themes, so that would explain why it used to work.
Unfortunately some older browsers do not recognize the “feed:” command, so that’s a bit iffy.
Jon
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heh, I’m on Firefox 1.5 and that doesn’t recognise the feed: command, so I don’t know what browser they think we should be using ;)
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I’m thinking (from a place of ignorance) that this may be more a function of whether your newsreader installs a browswer plug-in of some sort. When I installed FeedDemon, FireFox 1.5 now recognizes that link and directs me to FeedDemon.
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What I find interesting about this is the RSS and the feed links provide different outputs. The feed link includes the content of the post.
-drmike
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