I’m having the same problem.
I’d like an RSS icon to appear in the header if possible, to allow people to subscribe to posts in my website. I don’t see anything in the twenty ten theme to aide this.
that is not the purpose of the RSS widget
the RSS widget is to display other RSS feeds on your blog, like from other websites
Usually you code the icon into your theme,
but look through the plugin list to see if you find anything
Here’s one I found, there are more
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-icon-widget/
Your explanation makes perfect sense. Why didn’t they code it into the Twenty Ten standard theme?
Is there code I could add? What and add where?
Thanks for your prompt response Rev. Voodoo.
<div class="rssIcon">
<a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/rss.png" /></a>
</div>
where you have an icon named rss.png in the images folder of your theme
this also gives you the option to add the class to your css so you can fine tune the styling for example:
.rssIcon {
float: right;
margin-right: 25px;
}
the first bit of code goes wherever you want the icon to appear, maybe header.php, sidebar.php or footer.php
The second bit goes in style.css, but you’d have to put your own css in there if needed, I just made that up as example
Don’t know if this helps any of you, but i had a problem with Twenty Ten widgets being unresponsive, couldn’t edit them. Turns out I had to go to Screen Options -> Enable Accessibility, and then Edit buttons came up. Problem solved!
