Title: Stumped with RSS Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Stumped with RSS * [motionographer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/motionographer/) * (@motionographer) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-with-rss/) * Hi, * First time posting here. I’m totally stumped with RSS. I’ve never used it before and don’t know what it should look like on the other end. How do people use it? * I’ve found my rss link but don’t know which one to use. I’ve tried a number of plugins and nothing has helped. How do I set it up so people can “tap” into my feed? What do I supply — posts, categories? Can someone please explain all of this to me? I also don’t know if I need to add code to my theme. * Thanks!! * Eric Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-with-rss/#post-4254392) * > How do people use it? * It’s read by computers as a means to getting data from your site. Then people decide on how to display that data as information. * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-with-rss/#post-4254394) * > How do I set it up so people can “tap” into my feed? * It should already be set up by WordPress [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds#Finding_Your_Feed_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds#Finding_Your_Feed_URL) * Thread Starter [motionographer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/motionographer/) * (@motionographer) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-with-rss/#post-4254395) * Thank you, both. When I have the URL, what do I do with it? I’ve seen rss icons on blogs that display a clean list of all the posts. Should I be using a plugin that organizes my content better or gives users a choice of what to syndicate? * Thanks * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-with-rss/#post-4254397) * > I’ve seen rss icons on blogs that display a clean list of all the posts * Could you post [a link to a screenshot](http://snag.gy/) demonstrating this? * Thread Starter [motionographer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/motionographer/) * (@motionographer) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-with-rss/#post-4254399) * Sure. At this site: * [http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/03/30/change-your-beliefs-change-your-world/](http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/03/30/change-your-beliefs-change-your-world/) * They have an rss feed on the right. Here’s the link to their rss: [http://feeds.feedburner.com/Collective-evolution](http://feeds.feedburner.com/Collective-evolution) * It’s through feedburner which I gather is a plugin, but the plugins they currently have available, or at least the ones I found do no such thing. I guess this what users want so they can syndicate certain posts on the page… * [Rod Whiteley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rod-whiteley/) * (@rod-whiteley) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-with-rss/#post-4254438) * RSS feeds are intended for use in a newsreader application. I use [Feedly](http://cloud.feedly.com/) and [The Old Reader](http://theoldreader.com/) as my newsreaders, but there are many others. * If you do not have any newsreader configured in your web browser, then your web browser itself might display the feed. I think this is what you describe as “ a clean list of all the posts”. * WordPress provides feeds automatically, but it does not provide any way to track who is using your feeds. Feedburner provides some statistics on the use of your feed, and other enhacements. However, Feedburner’s statistics are not very reliable. For example, a newsreader like Feedly might download the feed just once and display the results to many users. Feedburner would record just one download. * Thread Starter [motionographer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/motionographer/) * (@motionographer) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-with-rss/#post-4254539) * Got it. It’s making more sense now, thank you. One more question, if I have an rss icon on my site do I just make a link to my feed? If so, which one? * Thanks * [Rod Whiteley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rod-whiteley/) * (@rod-whiteley) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-with-rss/#post-4254545) * If you only want to have one RSS icon, then the link should probably be to the site’s main feed, like: `http://www.example.com/feed/` * WordPress provides feeds for comments, categories, search results, and probably others. It’s a lot of work to provide all the right icons depending on what the user is looking at. Web browsers should normally list all the feeds on each page without the need for any icons in the page itself. For example, Firefox lists them in the main menu under Bookmarks – Subscribe to This Page… * Thread Starter [motionographer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/motionographer/) * (@motionographer) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-with-rss/#post-4254552) * Thank you! Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Stumped with RSS’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 9 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [motionographer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/motionographer/) * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-with-rss/#post-4254552) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics