making an RSS button from my site

  • I would like to put the RSS orange box with the dot and 2 1/4 circles in it on my blog, so that readers could choose to subscribe to my blog. Do I have the process correct so far? I have read Wikipedia on RSS and Atom, I have read the RSS section of WordPress support. I think all I am finding is instructions to import feeds into my blog – not what I want to do. The template I am using has the following in sidebar.php:

    <div class="sideblock">
          <h3>
            <?php _e('Meta:'); ?>
          </h3<
<ul>
<li><a>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>">
              <?php _e('<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>'); ?>
              </a></li>
<li><a>" title="<?php _e('The latest comments to all posts in RSS'); ?>">
              <?php _e('Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>'); ?>
              </a></li>

    I have gone into Widgets and dragged RSS over into the sidebar, but it didn’t take.

    I realize I am missing some basic concepts of how RSS works, and appreciate your patience. I would really appreciate some guidance at a minimum, and of course specific complete directions would be wonderful. Thank you.

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  • What you’re missing is actual links to your feeds.

    <div class="sideblock">
<h3><?php _e('Meta:'); ?></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Entries (RSS)</a></li>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>">Comments (RSS)</a></li>
</ul>
    Thread Starter bspaugh

    (@bspaugh)

    Thank you, but when I did that, I was able to move the RSS widget over to the sidebar, but it seemed to ask for url of something I want to import. I don’t want to import. I want others to sign up to subscribe (don’t know if that is the right word) to my site. I want them to be able to automatically get posts when I write them.

    Thread Starter bspaugh

    (@bspaugh)

    Hmmm. I’ve done some more searching and reading. I was thinking that putting the button (and associated code) up would make my posts show up like Facebook posts show up on friends pages. It looks like I need separate software and to manually re-enter my headlines and other text in a separate place – that it won’t just take my blog entry and notify people who have subscribed to my RSS button that I have posted something.

    Is this correct?

    I’m not quite sure that it is that you’e trying to do. The code I gave above can just be add to a Text widget to display links to your RRSS feeds. After that, you can let the visitor’s RSS aggregator do all of the notifying work.

    I’m in a similar state of confusion about RSS feeds right now. Like bspaugh, I think I’m failing to grasp some basic concept. I too have added links to my feed… and the links work, and they take me to a list of my posts… EXCEPT, according to Google Reader, my site doesn’t have a feed at all! And there’s no RSS icon showing up in the navigation bar of Safari or Firefox. Bspaugh, is this the same problem you’re having? I’m so hoping someone can help us out here! Otherwise we shall just have to remain confused together!

    @kate: Please post a new topic – preferably with your site’s url.

    @esmi: I posted earlier today, I think this is the URL for the topic: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/370570?replies=3

    Apologies if I messed up on etiquette here, I’m pretty new to all this.

    Replied: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/370570?replies=4

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