Help with RSS
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Hi. I’m new to WordPress and just created my blog and added a bunch of posts. However, I can’t figure out how to allow people to access my blog as an RSS feed. I looked at some of the widgets but I found them confusing. Can anyone help? Thanks.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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All WordPress blogs have multiple feeds built in to them.
This is the RSS Feed URL for your posts
http://mirskyblog.wordpress.com/feed/
This is the RSS Feed URL for your comments
http://mirskyblog.wordpress.com/comments/feed/
The widget you want to place in your sidebar is this one > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-links-widget/ -
Great, thanks so much.
The reason I was a bit confused is that I use Safari on a Mac and usually when I go to a page with an RSS feed, I see a little icon in the tool bar (where web addresses are shown) and I can click on it and subscribe to the feed. There wasn’t any for the main page of my blog.
But I’ll add the widget.
Thanks again!
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You’re welcome. Note also if any of your visitors are using Chrome that browser does not have a built-in feedreader they may complain to you. If they do tell them they have to get this RSS Subscription Extension (by Google)
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I’m seeing an RSS icon in my address bar on Safari, Mac when I visit the site linked to your username: http://mirskyblog.wordpress.com/ . Is that the site you are talking about?
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Yeah, it is the site I’m talking about. I’m not sure why it’s not working for me, but if it’s working for you that’s great. Thanks!
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Your feed seems to be working for me as well in Safari on a Mac. Can you let me know what version of Safari you’re using?
It might also help to take a screenshot of what you’re seeing and upload it to your Media Library:
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I’m also having some problems with RSS on a site I’m just setting up now – I’d like to create category feeds for a private site (users will be invited to view).
In testing, I’m using http://tcsadoptions.wordpress.com/category/kouze/feed/ which works in Firefox but not in Safari 5.1 or Chrome 16.0.912.75 on a Mac.
“Safari can’t open the page feed://tcsadoptions.wordpress.com/category/kouze/feed/. The error is “That the feed could not be loaded because the content is not in a known feed format” (PubSub:2)”
Are there any known issues around this?
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@tcsadoptions
Please take a screenshot of what you’re seeing and upload it to your Media Library so Staff can see it > http://en.support.wordpress.com/make-a-screenshot/ -
Thanks for the suggestions, timethief – I’ve taken two screenshots and uploaded them to my media gallery showing the error messages I get in both browsers. They are called tcsadoptions_RSSChrome_Error.png and tcsadoptions_RSSSafari_Error.png.
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