The average theme should have a link already in the sidebar or bottom of page point to the content or comment feeds. Does yours not have those?
It’s just ‘built in’ to WP. With nice permalinks, I think you just add ‘/feed/’ or something to the end of the url, and it’ll give you back RSS. In the old days, it was pointing to wp-rss.php, wp-rss2.php, wp-atom.php, etc.
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I actually did that, but clicking on the link brings up a broken page.
http://www.sadrhino.net is the site.
http://www.sadrhino.net/feed is the RSS link.
Some browsers tell you when a site has a feed. Firefox, for instance, displays a feed icon in the toolbar.
If so, you can look it up in the source code — the URL will be in the head of your website, within a link element — something like <link href="your feed here" rel="alternative/xml+atom" /> Something like that, there may be another one for RSS as well.
… and also, most themes have that stupid “feed:/” built into the url which borks up most browsers.
Seriously, I’d edit my theme files to remove the hard coded “feed:/” and then you’ll see it when you click on it in a browser.
Yeah, not much supports the feed protocol just yet, but in a couple of years it might become more widespread.
Now I’m getting the “no input file specified” error or just a blank page if I type in the direct URL:
http://www.sadrhino.net/wp-rss2.php
You’re kidding me right? Is it really this hard to syndicate?
I just realized I have a file “atom.xml” that’s outside my web site directory. Could that be doing it?
No, I doubt the xml file has anything to do with it.
It’s not this hard to create a feed unless something is broken with your setup. And clearly, something is broken. You don’t have working permalinks, for one thing.
okay, how does one have working permalinks?
I think Otto meant ‘nice permalinks’. Which shouldn’t make a difference in general ‘functionality’ of the site, just makes it so that site/feed/ doesn’t work.
Looks to me like something is seriously borked on your site. Don’t know if you customized code, if the theme is somehow intercepting the rss request, or if there’s a plugin messing things up. But your RSS requests come up blank so far as I can see.
You’re right, it’s normally very easy to syndicate, something’s come undone with your installation it seems.
Check that the feed PHP files are installed, they are called
wp-atom.php, wp-rss.php, wp-rss2.php and wp-rdf.php (there might be more, but you really only need one, WP seems to go over the top a bit).
If those files exist, check that they’re not blank.
Also, check your relevant synidcation settings.
