That’s actually normal, and your feed is perfectly valid too: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alexandertolchinsky.com%2Fmain%2Ffeed%2F
An RSS feed is a stream of XML data, meant to be interpreted by a feed reader, like RSSOwl or NewsBlur.
Now, while some browsers do include software to interpret RSS feeds, it’s generally not the browser’s place to do so, and most don’t even bother. 🙂
So, to recap, what you’re seeing is perfectly normal. Your feed is a stream of XML data with no associated style information, because it’s supposed to be interpreted by a feed reader, not a browser.
Ok, that makes sense; but there use to be a button at the top of the screen that people could click to “subscribe” that is gone now. Is that still ok?
Also, how do I make it so people can sign up for email notifications. That was there before the new theme, but it is gone now. 🙁
With Firefox 39 in Windows 7 Pro I get my normal Subscribe button for RSS feeds. Does my feed work for you:
http://blog.markheadrick.com/feed/
Could be something with your browser.
Email notifications would be handled through a plugin. What plugin were you using for that?
Just a note, the only major browser that cleanly parses a feed with subscribe options is Firefox. Chrome, IE, and Safari just display the raw XML, unless you have added an extension to handle feeds.
James,
I just finished building a wordpress recipe blog for my wife at http://blueridge-spi.com/recipes/
I am running wordpress 4.2.2 persons can subscribe to my RSS feed but Google Chrome users as you stated above only display the raw XML.
I does parse OK in Firefox and IE.
After searching the web for a while, I found a wordpress plugin that was suppose to fix my problem. The plugin is feeeeed. I have downloaded and installed version 0.9.10 which is compatible with wordpress 4.2.2 See website https://wordpress.org/plugins/feeeeed/installation/
I followed installation directions:
1.Upload the entire Feeeeed folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2.Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3.Visit Settings Feeeeed.
4.Settiong and save.
I can not make sense out of instruction 4. So the plugin has not fixed my problem.
Can you provide any direction. At least 2 persons say they have got the plugin to work on chrome, but I have been unable to contact them as to that final step…
Any help would be greatly appreciated….
Thanks
Tony
Thank you! I found a plugin that will work. 🙂
