widgets and rss feeds
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Hi I just “sent a post” but it is not showing up anywhere so I am trying again. If it is duplicated, please delete this one.
I have two RRS feed from dictionary.com and neither of them are feeding to my site.
I went to dictionary.com and retrieved the new feed link of ~http://dictionary.reference.com/help/linking/wordoftheday.html~
and replaced the information in the left widget….. but as you can see at my site it is still not showing up.The original html for the feed was ~http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/wotd.rss~ for the English version (left side).
Is the something missing from the code that I did not put in correctly?
I have cleared my cache, CTRL F5, and yet the feed is still not visible. Does the widget need something else?
Any help is appreciated
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I just found an “expert” version of the RSS feed and wonder if I now need to add is all in the widget?
The code is:
~ <?xml version=”1.0″ ?>
– <rss version=”0.92″>
– <channel>
<title>Dictionary.com Word of the Day</title>
<link>http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/</link>
<description>A new word is presented every day with its definition and example sentences from actual published works.</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>Copyright 2008 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC</copyright>
<ttl>720</ttl>
– <image>
<title>Dictionary.com</title>
<url>http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/dictionary_logo.gif</url>
<link>http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/</link>
<width>182</width>
<height>43</height>
<description>Free online dictionary, thesaurus and reference guide, crossword puzzles and other word games, online translator and Word of the Day.</description>
</image>
– <item>
<title>auspicious: Dictionary.com Word of the Day</title>
<link>http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2008/09/13.html</link>
<description>auspicious: favorable; also, prosperous; fortunate.</description>
</item>
– <textInput>
<title>Lookup</title>
<description>Dictionary.com Search</description>
<name>q</name>
<link>http://www.dictionary.com/search</link>
</textInput>
</channel>
</rss> ~Is this now the RSS feed code? I retrieved it from here http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/ and clicking on the XML button…?
Thanks again
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No, that’s not the code. The code you need is this http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/wotd.rss
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Feeds have a URL. Their URL does not end in “html” because they’re not written in html. Having looked at the site, it doesn’t appear they offer it as an RSS widget; they offer an email signup instead. I honestly do not see a feed at all in what you posted, although it DOES have an RSS element. This is beyond me: why wouldn’t they just have a button with a link to whatever.com/feed like everywhere else on earth?
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Thanks, Vivian. I tried that and got only a blank page though. Perhaps their feed is down?
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