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1. AmandaNoelle82
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Although everything else on my site is titled correctly, my RSS feed shows up as "Untitled." Where in theme templates do I change this (Kubrick), or what is the entry?

   Thank you for your help.

2. prestonwood
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I am having the same problem! I have scoured the internet, did the Google thing, and yet - nothing on how to change the RSS top title from "Untitled" to an actual title. Is there no one out there that has an answer to what supposed to be simple?

   danke - thank you for the help :)

3. prestonwood
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have a solution to this problem. What you want to do is edit a .php file. Look for these two files:

   wp-rss.php
   wp-rss2.php

   One of these should show you a file called - "feed-rss2.php" --- You should be able to find this file in your wp-includes file. Once you locate that file, you might want to throw that file into your notepad, Frontpage, Dreamweaver ... web page editor and look for this line:

   <title><?php bloginfo_rss('name'); wp_title_rss(); ?></title>

   Add your title like this:

   <title><?php bloginfo_rss('name'); wp_title_rss(); ?>ADD YOUR TITLE HERE!</title>

   Save your file to your server and you should see your "title" to your RSS feed - you might have to refresh your browser.

   Hope this helps!

4. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Or you could just give your site an actual name on the Options->General screen.

5. prestonwood
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Okay - BUT, in the area you are speaking of in the General Options where it has a space for you to add your BLOG TITLE, this would overlap with a top header graphic that some of us are using for a BLOG TITLE. This would hinder, more than help and those that still wanted to title our RSS feeds without the overlapping problem would need to go in and actually "TITLE" our RSS FEEDS. :)

6. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   So then you search on it here and learn how to use CSS to turn the display of that element off.

   Advantage? Next time you upgrade WP you won't be redoing core file edits again.

7. prestonwood
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   As I searched - I found out that there are still issues with the CSS-work-around for the title in the CSS being set to none.

8. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Issues that are larger than editing core code after every upgrade?

   Can you give some examples of those issues? Perhaps they can be mitigated.

9. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 years ago #

   this would overlap with a top header graphic that some of us are using for a BLOG TITLE.

   So.... you edit your theme and remove the bit that makes it put your blog title onto the page then.

   Sorry, I thought that would be obvious. I mean, changing metadata used in multiple places to affect a change in only one of those places is rather silly. If you want to make something not display on the page, then you edit the theme and remove it, not make the thing "blank".

   When you do something the wrong way in the first place, then the solution is to do it the right way instead, not to change something else in the wrong way as well.

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