Getting RSS Feed to Appear in Sidebar…
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I have attempted this 10 times at least, doing exactly what is described in the following FAQ and it still isn’t working properly.. ( http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/put-your-feed-in-your-sidebar/ )
THIS IS EXACTLY what I have in my TEXT BOX –
<img src=”http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/a14.png” />
This is a link to my blog – http://pricelesslifeforless.wordpress.com/
Can someone help in telling me what I did wrong and why it isn’t working properly? please, kindly?
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Sorry, my copy/paste didn’t work above..THIS IS WHAT I have exactly in my TEXT BOX
<img src=”http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/a14.png” />
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No, this is not exactly what you have in your text widget; this is what you have:
<a href="//pricelesslifeforless.wordpress.com/feed”"><img src="//faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/a14.png”" /></a>
And this is what you should have (you’re missing the “http”s, and you’ve got extra quotation marks):
<a href="http://pricelesslifeforless.wordpress.com/feed"><img src="http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/a14.png" /></a>The FAQ explicitly warns: “Do not copy and paste the link above!” (Because it includes some bad solutions in order to make the code show up instead of function.)
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I’m sorry! This entire experience makes me so frustrated..I try and look before I ask, but I really do appreciate your help. ( Knowing that you are really wanting to just call me a dumb a%&) I still appreciate your help…
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I beg your pardon??? I don’t want to call you anything – other than a victim of a badly designed FAQ.
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They really should put those code samples in the FAQ’s within “code” tags or something..
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@tsp: They should have used the html codes that represent the actual code symbols. (You can check my tips blog for specimens, but I think you know what I mean!)
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What they should have, is sample code that can be copied and it should either be within code tags, or pre tags so it isn’t interpreted.
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“Sample code that can be copied”: that’s the point. What I’ve done is use “& l t ;” (minus the spaces) for the opening bracket, “& g t ;” for the closing bracket, etc.
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Maybe someone should send something in to Support.
I finally got tired the the wrong curly quotation marks in the FAQ/Support sample code for page jumps
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Oh, I know.
But they did fix one thing.
But:
If you don’t ask, you don’t get.I don’t usually even ask.
And what you-all (Southern American accent here: y’all???) are talking about is more complicated.
Sorry.
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Ah. Just more complicated than a simple typo of a curly quotation mark.
A lot of my acquaintances with more chutzpah than I have tell me that. “If you don’t ask, you don’t get.”
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Well, personally I’ve got nothing to get by asking for that particular improvement. And tidying up the FAQs is someone else’s responsibility, not mine.
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Also personally, I find it funny that some members sometimes ask for things in a demanding tone (you must add dropdowns… you must add a dynamic blogroll… you must this, you must that…). It’s a free service, and I’m quite content with what we’ve got.
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The thing is though that staff may not have thought about the fact that this is an issue (after all they have the warning) and since they don’t hover around the forums regularly, it may not ever come to light unless one of the volunteers or someone else says, “say, I was just thinking, it might be a good idea to change this since it seems everyone is ignoring the warning in the FAQ’s anyway, and then they come to the forum looking for help.”
I’ve seen a number of things I’ve suggested to staff about FAQ’s and other things get fixed that would probably have not gotten fixed otherwise.
Still, your choice.
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Oh sorry.
I was not demanding. I was just being naive, wanting the sample to be correct. Well, naive and whatever. Trying to be nice. I not, usually.
Hey, I know what you mean though about the demanding tone—some of the bloggers here are very young. Self-centered by nature. -
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@Tess: Sorry? What for? I wasn’t referring to you!
@tsp: To me the warning is just a bad idea trying to cover another bad idea. Whoever heard of FAQs saying “look, this is the code but don’t copy it” instead of providing copyable working examples?
For the rest you’re right, of course (although the whole experience surrounding what finally resulted in the sambauers auto-response doesn’t make me so optimistic).
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