RSS feed set-up problem

  • Hi,

    If anyone can help me with this I’d be really grateful.

    I’ve been trying to set up my RSS feeds. I’m creating my own theme and I’ve placed the links (one text link, one image link) in the header. I’ve used the following code:

    <a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">Subscribe</ab'); ?></a> &nbsp;<a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>"><img border="0" src="<?php echo bloginfo( 'template_directory' ) . '/rss.png'; ?>" alt="RSS icon" title="RSS Feed" align="middle"/>

    When I click on the links I get through to the feed url (https://www.madebymadigan.com/feed/ on Firefox, and feed://www.madebymadigan.com/feed/ on Safari), but Google Reader can’t find a feed for my site and I don’t have any RSS icons coming up in the navigation bars of either Firefox or Safari.

    My site is https://www.madebymadigan.com. Sorry if this is a really basic question, but I’m an illustrator, not a developer, and I’m struggling a bit over this.

    Thanks for your time,

    Kate

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  • I have no problem subscribing via google reader and the feed validates

    I don’t have any RSS icons coming up in the navigation bars of either Firefox or Safari

    not sure what you mean here – like where the favicon shows up? or where?

    Thread Starter kate-madigan

    (@kate-madigan)

    Hi Samboll,

    First up, thank you for taking the time to help me!

    I checked back with Google Reader and I’ve discovered that I can now subscribe, but that the feed hasn’t been published. A message comes up saying “https://www.madebymadigan.com does not provide a feed. We can create a feed for you, notifying you when the content of the page updates.” I’m relieved that you’ve been able to subscribe, but I’d still like to publish a feed if I can so that potential subscribers don’t have to go through this extra step. Normally, I would expect just to paste a site’s URL into Reader’s “Add a subscription” box for the feed to automatically kick in.

    Re the icons in the browser navigation bars – if you look in the white bar at the top of the browser where the URL lives, and scan along to the far right-hand side, there’s usually a little RSS icon on sites that publish feeds. It’s a grey-blue rectangular icon in Safari with “RSS” written on it, and a bright blue square RSS icon in Firefox. Does that help to explain things? I’m probably getting some of the terminology wrong here, sorry about this. Anyway, I’m afraid that if the icon isn’t appearing, my site probably isn’t publishing a feed.

    Thanks again for your time!

    Try editing your theme’s header.php file and, within the <head></head> section, add:

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

    Your site does have a feed but Google needs to be told where it is. These lines will do that (as well as add feed subscription options in some web browsers).

    Thread Starter kate-madigan

    (@kate-madigan)

    Thanks for that, Esmi! The little icons are coming up in the browser now, and although Google still doesn’t want to know, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that after a few more hours have passed it will do a crawl and realise that my feed is out there. You’ve saved my evening for me – thanks for taking the trouble!

    Thread Starter kate-madigan

    (@kate-madigan)

    OK, the good news is that I think my problem is half solved now, but the bad news is that there’s still one outstanding issue: Google Reader recognises my feed when I type https://www.madebymadigan.com/feed/ into the “Add a subscription” box, but it doesn’t find the feed if I enter plain https://www.madebymadigan.com.

    Could anyone advise me on how to sort this out? I’m worried that if https://www.madebymadigan.com doesn’t work I may lose potential subscribers.

    Many thanks!

    Hi Kate,

    I was having the same issue until I added the tags esmi suggested above. Specifically: <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” />

    Although I changed mine to href=”https://www.mywebsite.com/feed&#8221; Once I did this, google reader was able to pick up the feed properly.

    You da bomb esmi!!!

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