RSS feed?

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  grimpeuse · Member · Feb 4, 2009 at 4:10 pm

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  How can I install a widget or link to get people to subscribe to my blog using RSS feed?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 4, 2009 at 5:01 pm

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  There are two ways. Once is to create it using a text widget and the other way is to put the RSS feed widget in your sidebar, edit the widget and put your feed into the widget. Your feed address is http://grimpeuse.wordpress.com/feed .

  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/put-your-feed-in-your-sidebar/

  RSS Widget

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  grimpeuse · Member · Feb 4, 2009 at 6:26 pm

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  I’ve tried to do it using the RSS feed widget. It doesn’t seem to work properly. It just takes me back to the home page.

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  grimpeuse · Member · Feb 4, 2009 at 6:30 pm

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  Ah – the text link beside the RSS icon takes one back to my home page – but the RSS icon itself directs the user to subscribe to the feed. This is confusing – I would like the text AND the icon to direct the user to the subscription.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 4, 2009 at 6:34 pm

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  Yeah, that is a little funky the way the RSS widget works.

  To get the text and the icon to link to your feed, you will have to use the text widget and code it in HTML.

  You can actually start a draft post and do the work in there in the visual editor and then when you have it the way you want it, switch to the HTML tab, select everything in that window and then paste it into the text widget. I’m pretty good with HTML, but it is so much easier to just do it in the editor.

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  grimpeuse · Member · Feb 4, 2009 at 6:54 pm

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  What wonderful advice – thank you! It worked like a charm.