RSS feed not working for Chrome – Does feeeeed plugin solve problem?

  • rap1996

    (@rap1996)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    I just finished building a wordpress recipe blog for my wife at http://blueridge-spi.com/recipes/ using the Coffee Desk(Cookbook) theme.

    I am running wordpress 4.2.2 – Persons can subscribe to my RSS feed but Google Chrome users cannot view the feed as an HTML, it is only displayed as raw XML.

    I does parse OK in Firefox and IE as html.

    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 anyone provide me with some direction. At least 2 persons have said 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

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    What you’re describing is actually perfectly normal.

    A Feed is just an xml stream of data, made to be used in a feed reader, like http://www.rssowl.org/ or https://newsblur.com/

    While browsers like Firefox and IE do visually translate the feed, they’re still not the best way to subscribe to a feed. Chrome, most notably, does not visually translate the feed unless you install a feed reading extension in the browser. And Safari simply refuses to display anything, telling you to find a feed reader instead.

    In short, your feed is just fine, feeds simply aren’t meant to be viewed in browsers. 🙂

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