getting feeds on to my blog?
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Hello, im trying to link my feeds from bloglines.com to my blog here at wordpress. does anyone know how to do it or am i being really thick?
Thanks
Jayne -
Umm…Do you mean, you want “Add To Bloglines” Button in your Blog?
If so, Try this HTML Add to Bloglines
Or if you want to add your blog, to bloglines, just enter the URL of your blog there and it will automatically show you the feed.
Or if you want all the feeds in Bloglines which you are subscribing to be linked from your blog
Try this link http://www.bloglines.com/public/%5BYourusername%5D -
Try this link http://www.bloglines.com/public/%5BYourusername%5D
I’m still trying to figure out what the username whould be in there myself. I look at the My Account pages over there and it’s not listed.
I think the poster may be wondering about how to get his subscriptions over from Bloglines and have them posted to his blog here at WP.com. Like in the column of his WP blog.
Maybe?
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I picked up this thread today and it looks like what I’m searching for. I’ll play with it and see what happens. I want to have the reader service a’la Bloglines incorporated into my WordPress.com site. I’m using the free version of WP so maybe that’s not possible. I really like Bloglines and WP, but can’t see how readers can comment on my posts in Bloglines. If I could combine the best of both I’d probably stick with WP.
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Ok, this thread seems to be where I need to ask my question.
I want my entire Bloglines feed to be published in one of my sidebars. At the moement I have the free version of wordpress and the blog hosted by wordpress. I have not switched my blogging activities over here yet, waiting to get things working before I do so.
So far I have tried:
-putting a text bar there and adding the code provided by Bloglines. The link shows up but not the blogroll.
-putting the “rss feed box” there and inserting the code. it says it’s an unrecognized feed. Still no blogroll showing up.
It would probably help if I could find a tutorial that explained WTF each “box” is supposed to mean. (sorry, this has been a truly frustrating ongoing experience).
I KNOW I need to enter the link version provided above for my feed: http://www.bloglines.com/public/%5BYourusername%5D BUT HOW?
If I could get to my actual template, it would take me 30 seconds to paste the code in.
And drmike.. you can easily find your BlogLines user name for your subscription. When you go to your subscription page (something like:http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs) the center shows two tabs: Directory and Share. Click on Share, you will see BlogRolls. Click on Generate HTML and it gives you link.
That’s easy.
figuring out how to paste that link into my template here and get it to work? That’s becoming a headache.
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you can copy’n’paste the following link into ‘OPML URL’ field on the ‘Links/Import/’ page — that gives you a huge flat (i.e w/o folders — they’ll be imported as an empty links) list of links to the blogs you’ve subscribed on BL on your WP.com sidebar.
guess it’s not exactly what you really want, but anyway WP.com ain’t an RSS reader — it can’t maintain/mark read/unread feed’s items status.
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options.. I don’t want WP to act as my RSS reader. I have a webpage I can use for that. I don’t care about it marking read/unread feed items. I simply want my blogroll published to the blog so people can find new blogs and visit them.
I’ve been told it can be done, I just can’t figure out HOW.If I could get to the actual template (instead of having go through intermediate steps) I could cut and paste the lines in 30 seconds. But I can’t. And I can’t figure out which steps will work to get to happen. If I can’t publish this list, I might as well stick with Blogger.
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I simply want my blogroll published to the blog so people can find new blogs and visit them
it can be done like described above in the 1st paragraph.
you must be logged to BL before pressing ‘Import OPML file’ button on WP dashboard.
note: blogroll will have to be updated here each time you add new feed on BL.
no way to ‘get to the actual template’.
[you may try to ask developers to make a widget (plugin) which would do it some more intelligent way]
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Thank you. I tried what you suggested and I now have the links on my blog. Still need to do a whole lot of editing, but atleast it’s up.
(can you tell that I have been really testy about this? Sorry about that.)
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Actually considering that this thread covers two different topics, (Add a list of blogs to the side bar and adding the contents of an RSS feed from one specific blog to the sidebar) I don’t blame you. :)
Good luck,
-drmike -
debra: glad you’ve made it up and I was helpful with avoiding that headache.
just thought there’s also possible to reduce works on editing: about 10 (ok, 15) amusthave links in a blogroll is a fairly decent number. due exclusively practical reasons: otherwise it is hardly that anyone scrollin’ down that longer make the frontpage bottom ever ;-)
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Boy this is sure frustrating for a beginner. I’ve been at this for hours trying to get either my Bloglines blogroll or my Bloglines previous blog posts to import to WordPress, and so far success with neither. I’m feeling that my technical expertise currently is such that I would have difficulty figuring out how a toaster works.
That whining aside. My most recent (perhaps 20th?) attempt resulted in this:The uploaded file exceeds the MAX_FILE_SIZE directive that was specified in the HTML form.
… which leads me ot think by chance the currect sequence of entries happened to be made, but WordPress has quite a limited allowance for number of feeds for a blogroll import. In which case I do what? (I really don’t want to delete a bunch of my precious feeds to allow the upload to work :( )
Appreciating any and all suggestions
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Not sure what method that was anymore. But – I was able to get Blogroll to upload by deleting all my unread posts, to make the file smaller. Then it worked.
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