Hi. I'm trying to claim my feeds in Bloglines. The instructions say to:
"In order to prove that you are authorized to claim the feeds listed below, please follow these instructions:
1. Include this claim key in a blog post: <key>
2. Include this user key in the template for your web site: <key>
Press the "Verify My Claim" button. We will immediately confirm that the keys appear in your post and on your web site. (Show the technical details.)"
Which file do I add the user key to? I tried the index and page templates, but that didn't work.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Hilary
you've found your template files, right?
under wp-content/themes/YourThemesName
I'd try header or footer -- those tend to always be displayed.
I've tried every file within my theme, and none of them work. I was wondering if I maybe missed something, but I've read a few other posts where people said they had problems too.
well, I have no idea what bloglines wants you to add, and I'm really quite fuzzy on what "none of them work" might entail. Can you share more?
Are you getting errors when you add the bloglines code? Is the bloglines code meant to be seen or just meant to be in the page somewhere?
They don't have much info. All it says, is:
In order to prove that you are authorized to claim the feeds listed below, please follow these instructions:
1. Include this claim key in a blog post: <!-- ckey="key" -->
2. Include this user key in the template for your web site: <!-- ukey="key" -->
(Where key is the user specific key they give.)
Then to press verify. That's it.
Ok, so that's not something you're going to see when you glance at the blog in a browser.
If you view source, you'll see it though, but there's no visual aspect to it.
Actually it also says this:
How claiming works:
Bloglines verifies your claim in two steps. We check to find <!-- ckey="key" --> and <!-- ukey="key" --> at the Website URL. Then we look for the presence of <!-- ckey="key" --> and the absence of <!-- ukey="key" --> at the Feed URL. This dual key authentication method verifies that you control both the Website and the Feed and avoids false claims from those who can post but don't control the Website.
Correct...to what you said.
so, find your <body> tag. Probably in your theme's header or index. Add
<!-- ukey="key" -->
right below it.
Now, turn off the wysiwyg editor. Options -> Your Profile.
Bottom checkbox, uncheck it and save.
Go to Manage Posts and edit your most recent post.
Add
<!-- ckey="key" -->
to that post and Save.
Hie thee off to Bloglines and claim.
ok i'm trying this again right now
Nope:
Authentication by Key Match Failed for site http://noshwithme.com with feed http://noshwithme.com/feed/.
(And my wysiwyg editor was already off.)
Hmm... I need sleep, must mull this over. Upon very brief reflection, I can't see how this would work as WP is going to strip that ckey stuff from the RSS (I think).
I just realized that I've never claimed my own blog with Bloglines, even though I use them as my primary reader. Lol. I guess I'll give this a shot myself soon.
Cool, thanks. I've emailed with Bloglines, but they haven't been able to help me.
Keep me posted on what you find out.
Thanks again!
Hilary
Well nuts, I'm no help. Apparently I had already claimed my blog at some point in the past. :-\
Oh, that's a bummer. (Well, good for you. Bummer for me.)
But...how were you able to already claim it when they only implemented the whole claiming thing a couple months ago?
spencerp
Member
Posted 5 years ago #
What happens if you turn the wysiwyg editor on, make a new post, just for the Claiming? For the new post, with the WYSIWYG ON, With NO TEXT in the WRITE POST window, just add this in the NEW post: <!-- ckey="key" -->
Hit save post button, then try to claim it? Maybe.. I dunno.. worth a shot..
spencerp
spencerp i'll give it a try...
Nope. Didn't work either.
spencerp
Member
Posted 5 years ago #
What kind of plugins do you have running? I'm trying to remember if I had a claim with them before or not.. and if I did, how did I do it.. hmmm.
spencerp
spencerp
Member
Posted 5 years ago #
I saw that too, but I believe it's different...he's on a wordpress.com blog.
I got mine working today, without much trouble. For my main feed I just had to add one code to the homepage index.php, and another to a post that actually appears on my homepage (this was the tricky part, since I only display selected content).
For my second feed, which is segregated from my main feed, I had to do the exact same thing strangely enough, although the URL and content is different... basically bloglines seems to focus on what is happening on your homepage, and won't go scouting around anywhere else. Hope that helps?
I'll try the index.php again. Where in there did you put the key?
I put it below the header. You may wish to manually check that you have done everything right by viewing source on your homepage and finding the TWO keys there, and also manually viewing your MAIN feed to find the single post key. If everything is as it should be then I think you're outta luck :/
Okay. I viewed the source and I can see both keys.
I viewed the feed (http://noshwithme.com/feed) but don't see either key. What could be preventing it from showing in the feed?
Make sure your feed is being updated properly... and perhaps, just for now, turn on full posts instead of excerpts if you have them on? This I am just guessing about. If all else fails, hack your feed ;)
How do I verify it's being updated properly? It is current, if that's what you mean. I'll try full instead of summary now.
Ooooo something worked! Now I'm going to try superjux.com.
Xander