RSS Feed is down

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  brianicenhower · Member · Nov 5, 2013 at 3:08 pm

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  The RSS feed on my blog is not working. On the front page of my blog at http://brianicenhower.wordpress.com/ it shows an error message stating that the RSS feed is down, and to try again shortly. It has been down for several days now and I cant get it to work after attempting to trouble shoot the problem w/ all of the help/support suggestions. Could you see if you can diagnose the problem?

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  brianicenhower · Member · Nov 5, 2013 at 3:09 pm

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  Specifically, the message below my widget on the front page of my blog states:

  “An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.”

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  tandava108 · Member · Nov 5, 2013 at 4:42 pm

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  You seem to be putting the blog’s own feed http://brianicenhower.wordpress.com/feed/ into an RSS widget but not have any posts.

  I’m not sure what you are trying to achieve but I can’t think of a reason to display the blog’s own RSS feed. If you want a list of posts then the recent posts widget is more suitable.

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  brianicenhower · Member · Nov 5, 2013 at 8:03 pm

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  Apparently I made a mistake by putting the blog’s URL in. I was attempting to create & install an RSS widget in my blog that would allow visitors to register to receive emails through the RSS feed. So if I don’t use my own blog URL for the widget, what URL should I input when the widget asks for a URL?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 5, 2013 at 8:12 pm

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  As tandava108 has said an RSS Feed has nothing to display until you have actually published posts.

  You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widgets by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  If you would like a follow button to appear on the bottom right hand corner of your site for those who do not have WordPress.com accounts go to > Settings > Reading and scroll down to Follower Settings:

  These settings change emails sent from your blog to followers.
  Logged out users __ Show follow button to logged out users.

  Checking this will present a follow button to logged out users in the bottom corner of their screen.

  Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/

  You can customize the contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/