Title: How to: RSS
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# How to: RSS

 *  [clan55](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clan55/)
 * (@clan55)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-rss/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-rss/#post-411576)
 * 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](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds#WordPress_Built-in_Feeds)
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-rss/#post-411577)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clan55/)
 * (@clan55)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-rss/#post-411578)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manstraw/)
 * (@manstraw)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-rss/#post-411581)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clan55/)
 * (@clan55)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-rss/#post-411583)
 * 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)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-rss/#post-411585)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manstraw/)
 * (@manstraw)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-rss/#post-411586)
 * If the icons are what you’re after, visit [http://feedicons.com/](http://feedicons.com/)

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