rss in Twenty Eleven does not work

  • Resolved strength

    (@strength)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    the RSS for my feeds in the meta widgets does not work. When RSS is clicked a box come up and asks you to add a feed (which appears to be correctly configured for not using custom permalinks) or has an option to search for feed in safari.
    I created a child them but when loaded, it does not use all the layout functions of the parent. I don’t know how to get the child to load properly nor do I know how to correct the RSS links.
    When I tried to import the .css from the parent, no layout info came forward – just text all lined up left.
    http://www.strengthbank.com/blog
    I am not a prgrammer. I learn as I go but this one has eluded me. I do not know php. In the past years, I just copied and pasted by observing where I need to change an address or a link in the different sections. The new templates don’t seem to have all the php listed or something so I am stumped.
    All help is greatly appreciated.

    The style.css in the child theme I created is:

    [ Moderator note: wrap code in the backtick and not the single quote. Or just use the code button. ]

    @charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document */
/*
Theme Name:     Twenty Eleven Child
Theme URI:      http://example.com/
Description:    Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme
Author:         Sandra Shelton
Author URI:     http://www.sandrashelton.com/
Template:       twentyeleven
Version:       1.0
*/
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  • Zoe

    (@aquickstudy)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Are you saying your RSS and styling doesn’t work if you enable the child theme? Just to be sure, because when I click on them now on your site they’re working.

    As far as the child theme not pulling in the parent theme CSS, that’s because you haven’t included the parent theme CSS in your new style.css

    From the Codex, here’s the minimum needed for a child theme that uses the parent theme CSS:

    /*
Theme Name: Twentyeleven Child
Description: Child theme for the twentyeleven theme
Author: Your name here
Template: twentyeleven
*/

@import url("../twentyeleven/style.css");

    Any rules you write under that will override the parent theme CSS. You cannot put any rules above the @import pulling in the parent stylesheet, so you’ll need to remove the @charset at the top (you probably don’t need it anyway).

    Thread Starter strength

    (@strength)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks so much for your response!

    I tried use the exact import you show and it worked! Hallelujah! I assume now when I ad the widgets it will work… Here’s hoping!

    I will get back to you if the RSS still doesn not work – Thank you! Thank you!

    Thread Starter strength

    (@strength)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    1. Child is up and I am still getting this when I hit Entires RSS (and the equivalent when I do the same for Comments RSS.
    Two options appear in a box:
    Browse feeds in Safari bookmarks.
    Specify the url for the feed: (then it give one default: feed://strengthbank.com/blog/? feed=rss2

    When I choose the latter, nothing happens.
    2. When I go to the bio I show as linked for Sandra Shelton, it does not come up – it goes to this link: http://strengthbank.com/blog/Jl ??? how do I change to the file linked?

    3. I need to add a custom header but cannot find an option to do that.

    Bottomline is I don’t know how to modify child?
    Again, thanks!

    Thread Starter strength

    (@strength)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    uh oh… I think I just figured out something…. I use the RSS icon on another site and noted that the RSS did what it does on my site and gives the two options. Then, RSS shows up in my Apple Mail. I think I did not realize that RSS is handled differently than in my older template at my other blog http://www.talkgroups-mentors.org/blog – ahhh times do change. Maybe I don’t have an RSS problem.

    However, I still am trying to figure out how to add my custom header and get the pdf thawt is a bio to link.

    Anything you can do to help this frustrated lady, I would appreciate.

    Thread Starter strength

    (@strength)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Got the header uploaed so am good to go. Thanks for your patience and your help with the child theme… I just am amazed at how much I do not know! Humbling! Still working on the bio thing…..

    Thread Starter strength

    (@strength)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Oh dear, I was thinking the page could be a page in pdf. Now I know it is just text and oh so easy! I am done!

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