RSS…Where do I begin?

  • Keeping in mind I have only been at this a week ( blogging, css) if someone wants to use my rss feed to place the news stories on their site, how is this accomplished…( in as close to laymans terms if possible).
    The RSS passes validation, unfortunatelyn the XHTML does not ( I don’t know the effect of this, but I’m working on it)
    The site was gaining in popularity and has been a big change for the better. Any assistancew would be appreciated.
    Thanks!

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  • I think it might be tricky for you to advise others on how to add an RSS feed of yours to their site as it will depend upon how their site is set up.
    If it’s a wp site, they could use David Chait’s CG-FeedRead:
    https://www.chait.net/index.php?p=85
    This looks fairly okay too:
    https://www.feedroll.com/rssviewer/
    As for your validation:
    https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalterroralert.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&ss=1&verbose=1
    Line 150 you have another DOCTYPE declaration and effectively the start of a brand new page within the exisiting one.
    The error there is caused by the ” characters so they would need replacing with their ascii equivalents before the validator can get any further on error reporting.
    If you are keen to have full validation – and why not – then I don’t see why you couldn’t do your site completely using CSS. I would suggest though that you do all the initial setting up and testing of layout on a hidden test install of WP. You don’t need your site breaking as it becomes more visited.

    Thread Starter ntarc

    (@ntarc)

    Thanks! There goes my weekend….

    Well you might be surprised how many WP installs some of us are running. Any excuse – and in goes another. That way we can all experiment whilst keeping our public face in some semblance of order. A plug in test bed for things like rss is really handy. If you not breaking it then you are not doing it properly ?? Good luck.

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