Title: Using RSS
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Using RSS

 *  [lmodlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmodlin/)
 * (@lmodlin)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-rss/)
 * Hello. I just set up a WordPress blog on my site and when you click on RSS in
   the sidebar it goes to an error page. Excuse my ignorance, but is there something
   I need to do?
 * Thanks,
 * Laura

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-rss/#post-468456)
 * Provide a link?
 * If I were to guess, I’d wager that either your [Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks)
   are broke (see that link for troubleshooting)
 * -or-
 * your link to the RSS includes “feed:” and your browser doesn’t know what to do
   with “feed:”. The typical approach in that case is to edit your theme (likely
   your theme’s sidebar.php), find “feed:” and delete it.
 *  Thread Starter [lmodlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmodlin/)
 * (@lmodlin)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-rss/#post-468457)
 * Hi.
 * Thanks for the reply. I deleted “feed:” from the sidebar theme. Now I get a blank
   page with the following URL – [http://aspetuckmedia.com/blog/?feed=rss2](http://aspetuckmedia.com/blog/?feed=rss2)
 * Here is what remains of the link for RSS –
    `<li><a>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate
   this site using RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('RSS'); ?></a></li>` Any ideas?
 *  Thread Starter [lmodlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmodlin/)
 * (@lmodlin)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-rss/#post-468458)
 * Ha! I think I am causing it to create a list … Here it is with the list and link
   reference removed…
 * “<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” title=”<?php _e(‘Syndicate this site using RSS’);?
   >”><?php _e(‘RSS’); ?>
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-rss/#post-468461)
 * A) I still see the “feed:” in your sidebar for the links to the feeds. But that’s
   not really the issue as [http://aspetuckmedia.com/blog/?feed=rss2](http://aspetuckmedia.com/blog/?feed=rss2)
   should show us something besides a blank page.
 * B) The date’s 1969 on that initial post. You might delete that and add a “real”
   post there before we get too crazy here.
 *  Thread Starter [lmodlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmodlin/)
 * (@lmodlin)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-rss/#post-468500)
 * Hi HandySolo (any relation to Hans Solo?). I put the “feed:” back in in case 
   it turned out I needed it. I took it out again and I deleted the 1969 post and
   added a new one (that has the correct date.)
 * When I clicked RSS this time I was taken to the URL: [http://aspetuckmedia.com/blog/?feed=rss2](http://aspetuckmedia.com/blog/?feed=rss2)
   and this time I got the following message on the page:
 * The XML page cannot be displayed
 * Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then
   click the Refresh button, or try again later.
 * End tag ‘dc:creator’ does not match the start tag ‘ADMINNICENAME’. Error processing
   resource ‘[http://aspetuckmedia.com/blog&#8230](http://aspetuckmedia.com/blog&#8230);
 *  <dc:creator><ADMINNICENAME></dc:creator>
    ——————————-^
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-rss/#post-468503)
 * Users -> Your Profile
 * Type in a nickname and you’ll be fine. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [lmodlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmodlin/)
 * (@lmodlin)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-rss/#post-468509)
 * Awesome! That did it! Thank you very much. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [lmodlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmodlin/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-rss/#post-468509)
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