How do I add RSS to my WordPress blog?

  • Hi, I would like to add RSS to my wordpress blog. The thing is my Feedburner account has had a problem for about a month now and I’m tired of waiting for support from them.

    Is there any other kind of simple way I can add RSS without Feedburner?

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  • wordpress has rss by default – just make sure the theme you use has the rss tags in the header:

    <link href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" rel="alternate" title="RSS 2.0" type="application/rss+xml" />
<link href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" rel="alternate" title="RSS .92" type="text/xml" />
<link href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" rel="alternate" title="Atom 0.3" type="application/atom+xml" />

    if you want to add an rss link in your pages use:
    <a href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>">rss link</a> somewhere in the body of your theme files

    Thread Starter tristan-lee

    (@tristan-lee)

    Hey there, I’m sorry. I don’t really understand this.

    Here is my website: https://frombottomup.com/.

    I would like to have a text (or image) that when people click on on it, they go to the RSS page. What do I have to do in my “Dashboard” in order to make this happen?

    Also, if you could provide what the RSS on wordpress looks like, I could get a better picture because I am only family with Feedburner as of right now.

    You need to remove this line from your header.php file:
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="From Bottom Up RSS Feed" href="https://feeds.feedburner.com/frombottomup" />

    and add the 3 lines I mentioned in my first post. This will add a newsfeed to your site.

    to do this go appearance->editor and select header.php from the right-hand menu. Make the changes I said and click update.

    Depending on your browser you should see a rss icon in or near the address bar.

    Also:
    I think you are confusing feedburner with an actual feed. Feedburner is just a reader – it reads rss feeds. Firefox can also read rss feeds and there are other programs out there that also can.

    Thread Starter tristan-lee

    (@tristan-lee)

    Hi there. I did what you said and went to appearance, editor, and header.php but I did not see:

    <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”From Bottom Up RSS Feed” href=”https://feeds.feedburner.com/frombottomup&#8221; />

    in there.

    Instead, I saw this:

    <?php
    /**
    * Handle the opening HTML and actions.
    *
    * @package Thesis
    */

    # Added to appease certain plugins which check for this code in this file:
    # wp_head();
    ?>
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”&gt;
    <html xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&#8221; <?php language_attributes(); ?>>

    <head profile=”https://gmpg.org/xfn/11″&gt;

    <title><?php thesis_output_title(); ?></title>

    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”<?php bloginfo(‘html_type’); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?>” />
    <?php wp_head(); ?>

    </head>

    <body<?php thesis_body_classes(); ?>>

    <?php thesis_hook_before_html(); ?>

    What should I do now in order to add RSS to my blog?

    Thread Starter tristan-lee

    (@tristan-lee)

    Hello?

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