How to: RSS

  • clan55

    (@clan55)


    19 years, 10 months ago

    Hi all

    I am new to WP (and blogging for that matter) and hope you can help. Many blog sites have the little orange RSS icon that looks like an antenna sending out signals. I use it to subscribe to their feeds and it automatically opens up my feed reader allowing me to subscribe to it.

    Anyway, my basic WP installation does not have this orange icon and when I click on RSS it shows the page code, but doesn’t open up the feed reader subscription.

    I rather like the fact that that orange icon makes it easy to subscribe, and to be honest I don’t really know what to do with the code.

    Is there a plugin for this functionality? Can anyone help or point me in the right direction?

    Cheers!

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  • maerk

    (@maerk)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    You don’t actually need a plugin, wordpress ought to do this for you automatically.

    Check this on the codex:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds#WordPress_Built-in_Feeds

    maerk

    (@maerk)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Specifically, this is the code you’ll need:

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />

    That needs to go in your header.php template file.

    Thread Starter clan55

    (@clan55)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Hi maerk and thanks for your answers. The code you mention is already in the header, but the RSS link is a text link.

    What I am after is the orange icon that combines all syndication formats and the functionality to open my feed reader subscription page when I click on the icon.

    At the moment all I get is the text link and when I click on it a page displays with the source code in it.

    Do you know what I mean – sorry my explanation might not be up to scratch.

    cheers

    manstraw

    (@manstraw)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    That orange icon shows up in firefox in the location bar. I take it you mean you want one in the sidebar of your blog? Or somewhere else on the actual page? Is that what you’re after?

    Thread Starter clan55

    (@clan55)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Yep, that’s exactly it. And I want it to open my feed reader’s subscription function rather than displaying the source code (which is what the “RSS” text link does at the moment)

    cheers!

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    19 years, 10 months ago

    clan55: You can add “feed:” to the beginning of your feed’s link (wherever it is in your theme), and that should make it open your feed reader, but then you will have people asking you why that link causes an error on their systems. Most people’s browsers don’t understand “feed:”, because they don’t have a feed reader.

    And there is no magical way to “combine all syndication formats”. That doesn’t really make much sense. If you want to use the icon though, then you can change the link to that image instead of text, in your theme.

    manstraw

    (@manstraw)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    If the icons are what you’re after, visit http://feedicons.com/

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