RSS Feeds – I am really lost here

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  suz50 · Member · Jun 3, 2007 at 7:30 pm

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  I have been looking for answers all over the place on feeds. Looked thru the forum, stumbled on a few related answers, but none fit mine. I watched the little video relating to feeds re: “enrolling” under Google, so proceeded there and was totally confused. I have a Google account and was a Blogger, but really want nothing more to do with Blogger(ing), that’s why I’m over here at WordPress. So, here we are with the question: Step by step: I read what the RSS means etc and understand the concept, I just want to set it up in my blog. Help. The FAQ lost me, sorry.
  Thanks for your help.

  http://suz50.wordpress.com

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  timethief · Member · Jun 3, 2007 at 8:00 pm

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  Looking for information on how to setup wordpress.com rss widgets is best done by using the wordpress.com FAQs http://faq.wordpress.com/tag/rss/

  If you cannot understand the FAQs you might choose to start here.
  (1) Drag and drop your “Meta” widget into your sidebar. Then your rss feeds for entries(posts) and for comments will be available.
  (2) This is how to do that -> Presentation -> Sidebar Widgets -> go to the “Available Widgtes” box, locate the “Meta” widget and drag it into the “Sidebar Box” now drop it there and click “Save changes”.

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  judyb12 · Member · Jun 3, 2007 at 8:16 pm

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  you don’t need to set one up; it’s already there:
  http://suz50.wordpress.com/feed and http://suz50.wordpress.com/comments/feed

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  suz50 · Member · Jun 3, 2007 at 8:37 pm

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  You’re right – all of this time, I didn’t even know it – tell me, do I just put the RSS widget on the sidebar and click to see the feed? Thanks so much by the way.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 3, 2007 at 8:41 pm

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  /nod to judy
  
  @suz50
  As it turns out you don’t have to do anything at all with a widget. Look for the orange icons in your right sidebar and click the links next to them. I tried them both and they are working just fine.

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  suz50 · Member · Jun 3, 2007 at 9:07 pm

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  Went to the right sidebar, to the orange icons and clicked the links. The ‘comments’ takes me to ‘web page expired’, the other link doesn’t do anything. ??

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  drmike · Member · Jun 3, 2007 at 9:31 pm

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  Take a look at the URLs for those links. Please note the ‘feed’ portion of the tag. Those links are set up for rss readers if you have one installed. If you don’t then the links don’t work. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.

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  nosysnoop · Member · Jun 12, 2007 at 3:26 am

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  How many RSS widgets would you like?

  How many should we have? I used to have one but now I put all 9. Is that good? I dunno.

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  drmike · Member · Jun 12, 2007 at 2:53 pm

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  They’re free. They don’t come out of the budget or anything. :)