RSS feed subscription problem

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  timethief · Member · May 25, 2006 at 5:41 pm

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  Just when I thought I had the RSS feed thingee figured out and after I thought I had properly configured my RSS feed widgets I noticed I had a comment.[My heart soared and then I read it.]

  This is what it said:
  I noticed you on the WP forums. You had a problem with your URL then.

  I tried to subscribe to your feed today. You have a problem there too.

  Your feed is not http://bloggersblurt.wordpress.com/feed/ but http://bloggersblurt.wordpress.com/current/feed/

  Well – Sheesh I hate trying to deal with this technical “stuff” [I mean – arrghhh!]

  I have now changed my RSS feed widget configurations as stated above, so is this all I have to do? [She said with a sigh].

  Great Gobs [she added] I have other blogs too and I have probably not put the correct URLs in their feed widgets either. How do I determine what the RSS feed URLs ought to be? What to do?

  [typo in URL fixed – drmike]

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  drmike · Member · May 25, 2006 at 5:56 pm

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  Both work. You’re running your posts through your “Current” page which is why that one works. The first one is the normal feed for a website.

  I would point them to the first link so if you every change how things look on your site, you won’t have to get people to update their feed URLs.

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  timethief · Member · May 25, 2006 at 6:28 pm

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  True to form as an eccentric person I have run another of my blogs with the latest posts under a “current” page tab too – so I changed the URL in the RSS widget on those two feeds as well. On the third blog I have used “home” for the latest posts so I didn’t change these feeds but out of curiosity I looked at them and “surprise” I found a space in one URL that shouldn’t have been there so I removed it. The one thing that blogging is teaching me is how to become a very perfectionistically “picky” person. And yes! I did get the message about changing how the page the posts are running from means changing the feed URLS – I copied it into my blogging notes. Tx again.

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  timethief · Member · May 25, 2006 at 9:32 pm

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  Hi. I just clicked on my RSS feed on http://bloggersblurt.wordpress.com. You know it’s the one I changed the configuration to as above. Well I ended up on the WordPress page asking me if I wanted another blog and showing me the box I used to set up the bloggersblurt account. Please assist me – something here is very wonky and I don’t know what to do to correct it.

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  timethief · Member · May 25, 2006 at 10:36 pm

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  In the duration of listening to “it’s quiet here today” I went back and checked the RSS feeds on my two other blogs and they are fine. The two on http://bloggersblurt.wordpress.com are definitely wonky – please help me fix them before the evening descends on us.

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  drmike · Member · May 25, 2006 at 10:37 pm

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  That’s cuz you’re missing the ‘s’ in ‘bloggersblurt’ :)

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  timethief · Member · May 25, 2006 at 10:42 pm

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  Sometimes I make myself laugh. Yes, I was missing the “s” and I was also missing the “l” too. So how does one make one of those emoticons indicating really stupid as in daft?