widgets and rss feeds

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  gottabkd · Member · Sep 13, 2008 at 6:24 pm

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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
  thanks

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  gottabkd · Member · Sep 13, 2008 at 6:36 pm

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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&gt;
  <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&gt;
  <link>http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/</link&gt;
  <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&gt;
  <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&gt;
  </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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  gottabkd · Member · Sep 14, 2008 at 10:08 pm

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  Um Hi… any help resolving this is greatly appreciated….
  Help???

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  vivianpaige · Member · Sep 14, 2008 at 10:10 pm

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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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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 14, 2008 at 10:14 pm

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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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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 14, 2008 at 10:15 pm

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  Thanks, Vivian. I tried that and got only a blank page though. Perhaps their feed is down?