meta question

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  lethebashar · Member · Apr 29, 2008 at 12:35 am

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  For the meta widget, I was wondering why the comments and the feed link show a bunch of html instead of openning the link up in a feeder?

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  vivianpaige · Member · Apr 29, 2008 at 1:59 am

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  They open in a reader for me.

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  lethebashar · Member · Apr 29, 2008 at 4:03 pm

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  Yes, and can you tell me why that might be . . . my site is http://www.lethebashar.wordpress.com. Could it be because I’m using feedburner? And a redirect post feed address?

  Thanks

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  cornell · Member · Apr 29, 2008 at 4:13 pm

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  The RSS feeds in the meta are the ones to pick up the feed directly from wordpress.com.

  Clicking the feeds using Firefox allows me to add them to the FF Live bookmarks with no problem at all. What browser are you using? If it’s one that’s not RSS aware then it will just present the html such as you are seeing.

  If you wish to use Feedburner exclusively (and I guess you will otherwise you wouldn’t have set up the service!) then I would suggest that you remove the meta widget and ask your readers to update their feed to feedburner.

  Unfortunately the wp.com feed will always be available to whoever wants it, as the FB feed will need to use it to syndicate your content to its service.
  I hope this make some kind of sense!

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  lethebashar · Member · May 3, 2008 at 12:31 am

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  Yes, it does thank you.

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  vivianpaige · Member · May 3, 2008 at 1:15 am

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  nod to cornell. I removed the meta widget on my site and hand-coded one instead because I use feedburner as well.