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1. purves
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I have wordpress 1.5.2 installed from debian testing. I've had it installed and running for several months, but never tested the rss feeds. I found that the rss links in the footer do not work. The html source looks like:

   
<div id="footer">

   The Inscho’s is proudly powered by
   <a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress</a> and
   <a href="http://debian.org">Debian</a>
   <a href="feed:http://inscho.northfolk.ca/?feed=rss2">Entries (RSS)</a>
   and <a href="feed:http://inscho.northfolk.ca/?feed=comments-rss2">Comments (RSS)</a>.
   <!-- 16 queries. 0.181 seconds. -->

   </div>


   I've never worked with rss before, but it looks to me that removing the feed: would fix everything up.

   It is interesting that the header rss feeds work. I have tested using Opera:

   
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://inscho.northfolk.ca/?feed=rss2" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="http://inscho.northfolk.ca/?feed=rss" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="http://inscho.northfolk.ca/?feed=atom" />


   So, rss works, but the footer link is wrong. What do I need to do to fix this?

2. purves
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   OK. I get the same error with this page...

   If I click "RSS feed for this thread" I get the error message:

   The address type is unknown or unsupported

   feed:http://wordpress.org/support/rss/topic/54493

   I'm using Opera 8.

3. purves
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I edited /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes/default/footer.php and changed:

   <a href="feed:<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Entries (RSS)</a> and <a href="feed:<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>">Comments (
RSS)</a>

   by removing feed: to

   <a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Entries (RSS)</a> and <a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>">Comments (
RSS)</a>

   Everything seems to work now. Why is "feed:" included in the first place?

4. purves
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   OK. Found some good explanation at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/52462

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