How Could Persons Subscribe to My RSS Feed?

thesacredpath · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 8:25 pm
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@larry, the link you put into the RSS widget is incorrect.

You have http://larryabell.com/

It should be http://larryabell.com/feed/
larryabell · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 8:29 pm
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It’s from feedburner and I just copied and pasted the link. Not good?
larryabell · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 8:31 pm
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This was the html code:

a href=”http://feeds2.feedburner.com/larryabell/iGGH” title=”Subscribe to my feed” rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml”><img src=”http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png” alt=”” style=”border:0″/>Subscribe in a reader
thesacredpath · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 8:43 pm
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There is likely a problem with the code. The following code works in my test blog and both the “subscribe to feed text, and the icon take me to your feedburner feed.

<a title="Subscribe to my feed" rel="alternate" href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/larryabell/iGGH"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png" alt="" /> </a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/larryabell/iGGH">Subscribe to my feed</a>
larryabell · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 8:44 pm
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Well I copied and pasted the code from your reply and I get the same thing. This is a little frustrating, isn’t it?!
thesacredpath · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 8:48 pm
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My test blog is here, http://allhatnocattle.wordpress.com/ , and it is at the top of the sidebar and labeled “Larry’s RSS with the exact code I pasted above.
larryabell · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 8:51 pm
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So any ideas? Thank you for your help.
thesacredpath · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 8:54 pm
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Make sure that you have cleared everything out of the text widget. Then click “done” then click “save changes.” Then open the text widget again, paste the complete code from above into it, click “done” and then click “save changes.”
larryabell · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 8:58 pm
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Did as you said, still the same result.
thesacredpath · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 9:04 pm
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You’re putting the code into the RSS widget. Put it into a text widget. The code feedburner gives you won’t work in a RSS widget.

If you want to use the RSS widget, then you will put ONLY the following into it: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/larryabell/iGGH
larryabell · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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oooooooooooooooooh, let me try it
larryabell · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 9:28 pm
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Well that did it. Sorry for the ignorance. Thank you for your help!
thesacredpath · Member · Apr 6, 2009 at 11:33 pm
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You’re welcome, and not ignorance. You were trying to set up an RSS feed and the RSS widget was logical.
indiawings · Member · Apr 7, 2009 at 5:44 pm
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Thank you, “have an opinion” for the link! Yay, it worked!
billbevan · Member · Apr 10, 2009 at 5:31 pm
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I’ve tried following the instructions for typing the code into the text widget. Each time I save it, it only saves part of the code so the feed doesn’t work on my blog – http://travelforbreakfast.wordpress.com. Any ideas why this shaving off of some of the code is happening?

Thanks, Bill
ladylitigator · Member · Apr 10, 2009 at 9:14 pm
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There is a very simple text widget you can add. Check this site:
http://www.addtoany.com/
raincoaster · Member · Apr 10, 2009 at 10:12 pm
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billbevan, we can’t help because we can’t see the text you’re trying to put in the text widget. Please paste it here between backticks, those little apostrophe-like marks on the same key as the ~ (usually) so it’s Backtick, all your code, Backtick. That makes it display so we can see and analyze it.

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