problem with rss weather feeds

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  jalyman · Member · Jun 17, 2008 at 3:05 pm

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  Hi all,

  I’m totally new to wordpress and RSS as well. I’m trying to set up a RSS feed for local weather. I’ve tried using the text widget (Accuweather) and the RSS widget (for both Accuweather and Weather.com). The text widget just gives me links with no data. The RSS widget is showing unprocessed HTML on the page and I’m not sure why. Any tips would be greatly appeciated! Thanks,
  http://jalyman.wordpress.com/

  -Jason

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jun 17, 2008 at 4:45 pm

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  What are the feeds that you are trying to use?

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  jalyman · Member · Jun 17, 2008 at 5:09 pm

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  Accuweather: http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=0&locCode=22901

  Weather.com
  http://rss.weather.com/weather/rss/local/22903?cm_ven=LWO&cm_cat=rss&par=LWO_rss

  Thanks!

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jun 17, 2008 at 6:23 pm

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  I opened both of those feeds in a feedreader and I’m seeing the same thing in them as I see in the feeds on your blog, with the exception of the picture display. I assume that our RSS feeds don’t display images.

  If I click on the link, it takes me to the full post, which is the way RSS feeds generally work. (I’ve got several in my sidebar if you want to take a look.)

  The text widget you have for Accuweather is displaying links. That is what text widgets do.

  (And hello from Norfolk!)

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  jalyman · Member · Jun 17, 2008 at 6:51 pm

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  Many thanks! Perhaps I’m just out of luck with the images, then.

  Thanks again for taking the time to help out.

  -Jason