I need help setting up a RSS feed to my blog

  • I have a simple and new site that will have (hopefully) many articles on health and fitness, diet, weight loss etc.

    https://www.health-bits.com

    So far I’ve either been writing the articles directly or copy/paste from other article sites. Obviously RSS is the way to go to get more content to the site.

    My problem is that I know ABSOLUTELY nothing about code.

    I would like to have entire articles uploaded to my site, permanently, not just revolving links.

    I have already uploaded the WP plugin Linklist (I think this plugin only downloads the links though) and have it activated. Which of course has done nothing, becuase I missed something I’m sure. I have also downloaded MagPie to my puter because I’ve heard it may actually be the program I’m looking for.

    I wanted to get more content onto my site before I even began with the attempt at SEO-ing for better placement.

    I have found plenty of directions/tutorials but unfortunately it seems they all assume a certain level of understanding that I apparently don’t have yet.

    I consider myself relatively intelligent, but I keep getting cross eyed with this stuff.

    Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

    Marco

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  • RSS feeds are included in WP by default. Point your link to your wordpress/feed/ and it will work.

    I haven’t yet been able to get the atom feed to work properly.

    Thread Starter MrMarco

    (@mrmarco)

    Joshua – Thanx. I’ve seen those files and thought the same thing.

    But now… What do yoou mean “Point your link to your wordpress/feed/”

    See, I am a simpleton in regards to this stuff. LOL

    Also, will that upload entire articles to my site permanently or just revolving links?

    Thanx again

    Hi,

    /feed/ is a redirect url that points to wp-rss2.php.

    Let’s say you installed wordpress in the directory “wp” located in your root domain, like this.

    https://www.example.com/wp/

    You would create a link on your blog that points to https://www.example.com/wp/feed/

    Whenever someone goes to that url, they would get a feed of your last 10 posts. You can set the number of posts to show in your control panel under the options menu.

    That’s not what he’s asking for. The above answer shows you how your WordPress blog is generating your Feed from your Posts.

    What he asked for: Ability to post RSS feeds from another site, so that it appears like content on his own blog.

    Just like you see inside the Dashboard, where content is automatically pulled-in from some popular feeds.

    Maybe if someone studies the Dashboard code we can figure out how they did it there. Another plugin that claims to do this is FeedWordPress, but I couldn’t get it to work quite right, I got close enough to see the RSS was pulling into its Options page, so something was happening… but couldn’t get the content to appear in my Categories.

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