Title: RSS Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # RSS * [oldhickory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oldhickory/) * (@oldhickory) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/) * I’m painfully new to WordPress. I’ve never worked with RSS or feeds, though I read the feeds page on the codex. * I understand that WordPress automatically generates feeds, but I went to weblogs. com and entered my url, and got a message that there’s no feeds. I clicked on the RSS icon on my template, and got a ‘page not found’. * If WordPress automatically generates pings or feeds or whatever, do I have to do anything other than update my page (create entries). If so, why wouldn’t weblogs have been able to validate the feed? Also, I read some other feed topics on this forum, and tried going to my site’s feed page (I forget the url but I followed the directions) and also got page not found. * I checked the coding on the template and there’s definitely a line in there about RSS feed, so as far as I know, the template isn’t totally devoid of RSS (the feed codex says some templates don’t have RSS included by default). * I suspect I am missing something obvious, but I’ve never dealt with RSS in my life so I haven’t a clue. * Thanks. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 28 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/page/2/?output_format=md) * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/#post-493480) * 1. Open the header.php file and remove the word “feed:” from the RSS links. 2. Your feeds are OK, but not where you are looking for: [http://www.hated-it.com/blog/feed](http://www.hated-it.com/blog/feed)– it has www – and has to point to your real location * [Jrexi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrexi/) * (@jrexi) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/#post-493481) * I too and having problems with my RSS feed — i am extremely new to RSS — * I have the RSS buttons and links in my template, but when I click on them to set up a feed, I get the following error: * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/j4media/public_html/index.php:1) in /home/j4media/public_html/wp-commentsrss2. php on line 8 * Do I need to set something up first? * Thanks in advance for your help. * Jrexi * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/#post-493483) * _but when I click on them to set up a feed_ You don’t have to “set up” anything. WP does it for you. * For the error see the Codex: [http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_do_I_solve_the_Headers_already_sent_warning_problem.3F](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_do_I_solve_the_Headers_already_sent_warning_problem.3F) * [Jrexi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrexi/) * (@jrexi) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/#post-493485) * Thanks moshu, I’ll check out the error solution and see if that works for me. * Thread Starter [oldhickory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oldhickory/) * (@oldhickory) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/#post-493486) * You said: * *1. Open the header.php file and remove the word “feed:” from the RSS links. 2. Your feeds are OK, but not where you are looking for: [http://www.hated-it.com/blog/feed](http://www.hated-it.com/blog/feed)– it has www – and has to point to your real location* * Ok, so “feed:” appears twice in the header. Removing both instances will solve my issue without my doing anything else? Was this an error in the template code? I am confused by the second part about having to point to my real location. * Thanks, by the way. * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/#post-493487) * “feed” is a relatively new(?) protocol, not universally recognized by browsers. It is not an ‘error’ in the theme… let’s say the theme author went ahead of the time 🙂 * 2. Your WP installation is in a subfolder called “blog” while you display the site at the root level. You either didn’t set this up correctly, or it just doesn’t want to work, because [http://www.yoursite.com/feed](http://www.yoursite.com/feed)– does NOT work but [http://www.yoursite.com/blog/feed](http://www.yoursite.com/blog/feed)– works! * [Jrexi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrexi/) * (@jrexi) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/#post-493488) * OK, i found the following on the last 2 lines of wp-rss2.php: * * I removed those and still got the same error. The error mentions line 8 and here is what I currently have on line 8, do you see a problem there? * header(‘Content-type: text/xml; charset=’ . get_settings(‘blog_charset’), true); * Maybe an extra space some where? * Thread Starter [oldhickory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oldhickory/) * (@oldhickory) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/#post-493489) * I suspect that’s because the blog replaces my original index.html page – I installed WP via my host, which gave me the option to make the blog the home page, which I wanted to do. * So, if the header code looks like this: * =”feed:”>Comments * removing the two instances of the word ‘feed’ will get feeds working? It sounds like from what you said there should be more I have to do to make the feeds recognizable. Will readers always look in yoursite.com/feed (which evidently doesn’t exist)? * Sorry to keep this running, I’m just wary of changing the code and doing something improperly. * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/#post-493490) * Jrexi, before messing with the code, please READ carefully the Codex link I posted. Till end. That’s where it gives you clues how to read the error. You are looking at the wrong place… * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/#post-493491) * OH, delete the “feed:” anyway. * _After_ that we’ll be looking how to make the feedreaders to find the real location 🙂 * Thread Starter [oldhickory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oldhickory/) * (@oldhickory) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-1-3/#post-493493) * I took them out, so the code now looks like: * href=”