RSS Feeds
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Have I to create a new RSS Widget for each feed I want?
Also is it possible to have a feed from the following website which has an RSS icon but no feed link.http://blog.ruhlman.com/ruhlmancom/
If I try to clicking the RSS icon it takes me to Google Reader.
Thanks
JackThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Yes, it’s one feed per widget.
This is Ruhlman’s feed – you just need to copy the url after clicking the rss icon in your browser:
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Thanks for the reply, but as I said if I click the rss icon it just takes me to Google Reader.
I wonder if there is any way of stopping this happening.jack
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It’s doing that because you’ve got your computer set to do that. What are you expecting when you click the RSS icon? It should take you to a page where you can add it to your reader. If you want to go to the blog itself, you should put a regular link to the blog in your blogroll.
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I can’t open more than one window at a time or I’d give you the direct thread; go to the FAQ at the top of the page, and do a search for “Blogroll” or “Links” and the answer is in there.
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Thanks for the reply in the meantime I have been googling to find out how to get rid of Google Reader and followed one of the replies which was.
Have you tried Tools > Options > Applications & scrolling down to “Web feed”?
You can change it in the drop down.I followed this and Google Reader was listed as my feed with a drop down menu to choose another.
With a list of available feeds, WordPress was not listed do you by any chance know of a way I can direct this to WordPress.com?jack
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Jack – Assuming you’ve now done the search raincoaster pointed you to, just copy the url I gave you and paste it into the widget.
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Is there anything I have to do to allow my visitors to get my posts on an RSS feed? I’m afraid I’m new to this…
Michael
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Is there anything I have to do to allow my visitors to get my posts on an RSS feed? I’m afraid I’m new to this…
Michael
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Forgive me for harping on about this, but I am a bit thick and confused in relation to RSS feed subject.
raincoaster said:
It’s doing that because you’ve got your computer set to do that. What are you expecting when you click the RSS icon? It should take you to a page where you can add it to your reader. If you want to go to the blog itself, you should put a regular link to the blog in your blogroll.But would using a regular link in the blogroll still show the content when the blog updates ?
Also would it be any good just copying the blog URL into the RSS widget?
jack
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A regular link on the blogroll is not dynamic; it does not show the latest posts. It just shows a link to the main page of the blog.
It will not work to put the blog link into the RSS feed. Think of going to the blog like going to the studio, and using the RSS widget like listening to the event on the radio instead. The studio is not dynamic, but the radio signal is.
Here, watch these videos; they explain it very well:
Blogs in plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXIRSS in Plain English
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Visitors to my Blog have asked if they can subscribe to a RSS feed. Can you help me? ( I did not understand Raincoaster’s response on May 4)
My blog is at http://arminfields.wordpress.com
Also, I don’t understand my Blog’s Reading Settings which ask, for each article in an enhanced feed, do I want to add to Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us, Digg.com, or Reddit. I checked YES, but I don’t know what any of that stuff means.
Armin
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arminfields – did you get a reply?
We would like to put a rss feed from our blog http://radiobracknell.wordpress.com on our website http://www.radiobracknell.webs.com (www.radiobracknell.com) but cannot find out how we get a widget or html code to facilitate this.
John
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@radiobracknell, how to put an RSS feed on a third-party hosted website is not a wordpress.COM issue.
Doing a google search for “putting an rss feed on website” I found this at the very top of the results: http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/2006/10/09/rss-feeds-adding-a-feed-to-a-website-using-php
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Hey Radiobracknell (and Michael Friedlander, if you still check in);
I learned how to add an RSS feed from a WordPress FAQ at http://faq.wordpress.com/feed/
It says: << Just add /feed/ to your blog address. So for this blog the feed is at http://faq.wordpress.com/feed/ >>
To my browser’s home page, I added a RSS feed to my Blog and got a snippet of my last post and links to its next several posts.
I don’t have a sidebar, so I also added a page (not a post) that tells visitors how to set up a RSS feed to my blog. The page is at the top of every post and is very noticeable.
This pretty much exhausts what (little) I know about RSS feeds.
Armin
ps: in case you’re wondering, I deliberately chose a theme with no sidebar because I use tables all the time and need the maximum width for my posts.
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