Avenir:
Could you please show us the code that will tell us if our header files have the “auto discovery’ links? … Thanks.
DaveDe: … There are various ways to subscribe to RSS feeds.
In Bloglines, for example, the “clickor” can subscribe to your feed by simply typing in your RSS url
http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-rss2.php
into a “subscribe” box.
Other RSS readers are even simpler. For example, with Sage RSS reader, a plug-in for Firefox Browswer, you just drag the “favicon” beside the link (http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-rss2.php)
into the left-hand column of links, and that does the job.
–RB
According to “macmanx” it should:
“Assuming for feed is linked to http://www.domain.com/feed/, you can change the link to feed:http://www.domain.com/feed/ . This new link is supposed to launch the reader’s default new reader and either subscribe them to the feed or check it for updates.”
DD
One more question? What I have is this:
Subscribe
RSS
Comments RSS
What I would like to do is replace the 1st “RSS” with a “gereric” RSS link image. I have the GIF image uploaded to my images dir.
DD
The code to enable autodiscovery should be located in the header.php file of whatever theme you’re using. It should be a bunch of <link> elements like this:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" " href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
Feed: is a relatively new protocol (like Skype’s call:), so it’s not supported by some browsers. When it is supported by all browsers, then it will do as macmanx says.
And to add the generic image, go into the template file where the RSS link is, find it, and replace the text between the anchor tags with:
<img src="rssimg.gif" alt="RSS for this blog" />
Of course, change the attributes so they match your blog.
Cool. I’ll play around with it some more. As to the image tag, that’s pretty much what I “figured” but it’s nice to be sure.
Thanx Again
DD
It would seem that having the RSS link is simply a way to made the URL appear in the site visitor’s location “field” from where he or she can copy it to paste into their news reader. What I would really like if for this to happen automatically when the person clicks the link. But maybe it’s too soon for that? Have to wait until the technology evolves a bit more?
Anyway, thanx again to everyone for their help. I got the link working, the image in place and all seems good….
DD
Add feed: in front of the RSS URL. Ex: feed:http://www.domain.com/feed/ “feed:” is new protocol which, once fully implemented amongst RSS apps, should launch your default RSS app and either subscribe you to the feed or check it for updates.
So would it be a correct assumption that I should leave the link “as is” until newer versions of web browsers are released that support the “feed” protocol and then change the link to include the “feed:” prefix? (At this time all of my browsers return an error when the “feed:” prefix is used.)
Thanx
DD
