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1. knowaboa
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi, can anybody tell me how to set up an rss feed on my blog for people to link/subscribe to? Thanks, Noah
   PS here's my blog if it helps to answer:

2. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   WP comes standard with rss already setup/working. The meta section in the sidebar and (depending on theme) comments and posts rss link notation in the footer are ready to go.

   If you're not seeing RSS for comments and links in the sidebar of the theme you're using, then you may need to tweak the meta section so they show; or if the theme is widgetized simply activate the appropriate widgets (assuming you've installed the widgets plugin from http://automattic.com/code/widgets)

3. knowaboa
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi vkatyl, thanks for the informative answer. I'm not sure if my blog is widgetized. Can you tell me how to tweak the meta section so the RSS shows? Thanks, Noah :)

   HEre's my site in case it helps:
   http://www.goodtherapy.org

4. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Where's the actual WordPress blog?

5. knowaboa
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   oops.. it's here: http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/

6. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Okay, well, you see that the browser addy bar has a feed icon, right? So that's a heads up for readers right there. Click on it, get Noah's Blog by feed....

   Then in your sidebar there's Meta - it has all the stuff it should have except for some reason the feed stuff isn't showing.

   You have this in that sidebar area:

   <li><h2>Meta</h2>
   <ul>
   <li><a href=\\"http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/wp-login.php?action=register\\">Register</a></li>
   <li><a href=\\"http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/wp-login.php\\">Login</a></li>
   <li><a href=\\"http://validator.w3.org/check/referer\\" title=\\"This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional\\">Valid <abbr title=\\"eXtensible HyperText Markup Language\\">XHTML</abbr></a></li>
   <li><a href=\\"http://gmpg.org/xfn/\\"><abbr title=\\"XHTML Friends Network\\">XFN</abbr></a></li>

   Try replacing it with this:

   <li><h2>Meta</h2>
   <ul>
   <li><a href=\\"http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/wp-login.php?action=register\\">Register</a></li>
   <li><a href=\\"http://www.goodtherapy.org/custom/blog/wp-login.php\\">Login</a></li>
   <li><a href=\\"http://validator.w3.org/check/referer\\" title=\\"This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional\\">Valid <abbr title=\\"eXtensible HyperText Markup Language\\">XHTML</abbr></a></li>
   <li><a href=\\"http://gmpg.org/xfn/\\"><abbr title=\\"XHTML Friends Network\\">XFN</abbr></a></li>
   <li><a href=\\"http://wordpress.org/\\" title=\\"Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.\\">WordPress</a></li>
   <li><a href=\\"feed:<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>\\">Entries (RSS)</a></li>
   <li><a href=\\"feed:<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>\\">Comments (RSS)</a></li></ul>
   </li>
   <?php wp_meta(); ?>

   And you might have to tweak with the closing ul and li tagsets - hard to tell without actually having the whole sidebar.php file to hand. If you want to post the whole sidebar.php file, copy the coding to http://wordpress.pastebin.ca and post the link here - I won't have a chance to look at it before morning, but will get back to you then with a more concrete fix.

7. knowaboa
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks vkaryl, I'll see if I can make the adjustement you're suggesting. I apreciate your help :)

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