I need help setting up a RSS feed to my blog

  • MrMarco

    (@mrmarco)


    19 years ago

    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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  • joshuaclinard

    (@joshuaclinard)

    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

    joshuaclinard

    (@joshuaclinard)

    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.

    Dgold

    (@dgold)

    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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