RSS – “Page not found”; please help

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  averbatimlife · Member · May 8, 2009 at 11:54 am

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  I’ve searched the forums quite a bit (but if I have missed this question then apologies).

  My blog is: http://averbatimreader.wordpress.com/

  Following the FAQs and other threads on this forum I was able to add an RSS feed icon on my blog. But when I click on it, it shows a “Page not found”. Am I doing something wrong? It’s quite possible; I’ve been at this a while. I’d appreciate the help.

  The text I fed into the Text Widget was:

  <img src=”http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/a28.png”>

  Thanks in advance.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · May 8, 2009 at 12:27 pm

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  That is indeed the wrong thing to put in the text widget.

  You need to put this in;

  <a href="http://averbatimreader.wordpress.com/feed><img src="http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/a28.png" /></a>

  You have to add the image and the feed link.

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  averbatimlife · Member · May 8, 2009 at 12:40 pm

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  Thanks for that, but actually I did add that in the box…for some reason only the above was copied and pasted

  <img src=”http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/a28.png” />

  Hopefully you can see it properly now; if not – it’s exactly what you wrote in the post above me and yet I still can’t access it.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 8, 2009 at 12:42 pm

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  No, I can’t; code has to be pasted between backlinks in order to display here in the forum.

  The usual problem is, you’ve got curly quotes instead of plain ones; that will give an error. Delete the quotes and type them in again by hand instead of copy/pasting them and that might fix it.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 8, 2009 at 12:43 pm

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  um, “BackTICKS” I meant. On the same key as the ~ on my keyboard.

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  averbatimlife · Member · May 8, 2009 at 1:17 pm

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  You mean <a><img src="http://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/a28.png" /></a>…

  Can you see that?

  I tried the curly/straight quotes thing…still nothing.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 8, 2009 at 1:30 pm

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  I can see it, but no, it won’t work. See the part with the a in brackets? That a needs more code, it’s the part of the whole thing that tells it where to link to, in this case your feed, which is http://averbatimreader.wordpress.com/feed

  Without the destination in the proper format, it’ll never work.

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  averbatimlife · Member · May 8, 2009 at 1:36 pm

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  Ok, I’ve tried it again. Can you access my RSS now?

  http://averbatimreader.wordpress.com/

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  raincoaster · Member · May 8, 2009 at 2:10 pm

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  Yep, works just fine.

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  averbatimlife · Member · May 8, 2009 at 2:21 pm

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  Thanks a lot for your help!

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  raincoaster · Member · May 8, 2009 at 2:23 pm

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  You’re welcome, glad you got it working.