Add RSS Feed Subscription

you want people to be able to subscribe to you?

Or you want to show feeds of other websites?

I would like for others to subscribe to me…

I’m new to the RSS thing, so I apologize for sounding ignorant ??

Well, you can go to appearance->widgets from your admin area, and drag the meta widget to your sidebar. That gives you a widget on your sidebar with login/out options, plus RSS subscription link.

If you don’t want that, you could hardcode it into your sidebar, or put the link in a text widget….but we will see if you like the first option before confusing you…. ??

Well, it appears as though the only RSS widget I have is to view entries from other RSS feeds… not to let people subscribe to mine.

Maybe we can shoot for the hardcode option? Thanks!

the widget isn’t called rss, its called META

Ah, ok. I tried that one though and it isn’t quite what I’m looking for. Just want a simple one line link that says something like “subscribe to feed” with the nice little orange logo ??

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/subscribe-here-widget/

maybe?

otherwise, it can be done with a text widget. You’ll just need to find an rss icon you like, upload it to your themes images folder, and we can go from there!

<a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/rss.png" alt="Subscribe to <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" />Click here to Subscribe!</a>

would be the code to make the rss link work, once you have the image (assuming the image is named rss.png in an images folder in your theme)

Wonderful! I’ll work with that and let you know if I have any more questions on that.

I have another question for you though… I’m trying to figure out how to italicize my fonts when I create a post. It looks italic in my editing window, but does not post as italic on my site.

hmmm….honestly, I’ve never once used italics on any site…. perhaps something to be added/edited with the stylesheet…..but not sure.

where did you try to use italics exactly?

I tried to style in the body of a post.

Also… may be another silly question but how do I upload my rss icon into the “themes” images folder. I think I only know how to upload it to my media