Trying to add a subscribe button to the sidebar

  • Resolved talon39

    (@talon39)


    16 years ago

    I’m trying to add a subscribe button to the sidebar of my new blog. I’m a newb to WP but not a newb to html. I am following the instructions given here https://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/put-your-feed-in-your-sidebar/.
    I have created a text widget and added the following code:
    <a href=”https://www.gocanyoneering.com/blog/feed/”><img src=”https://faq.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/b28.png” alt="Subscribe"/></a>
    The strange thing is, only the text from the alt tag shows up. If I remove the alt tag, there nothing shows up. Could it be something in my theme preventing it?

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  • Thread Starter talon39

    (@talon39)

    @buddha trance
    No the text widget was installed by default. All I did was add it to the sidebar using the admin stuff in WP.
    Did you just do a fresh install of 2.6.5 on your site? Does the url /feed/ work on your site?
    Rather than go through the trouble of turning my PC into a webserver, I will just get a hosting account at another hosting provider. I would like to avoid that. If I get an account at another provider and the problem doesn’t manifest, I will simply cancel my 1and1 account. But I don’t want to go through that much trouble.
    Has anyone else done a fresh install of WP 2.6.5 on 1and1? If so, can you please test this?
    1and1 says they will not support WP. I will try to call them, but they are within their rights to tell me to F*off.

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    1and1 sucks. they basically ripped wordpress and offer their own version of it branded as the 1and1 blog.

    the blow. end of story.

    Rather than go through the trouble of turning my PC into a webserver, I will just get a hosting account at another hosting provider.

    A small orange is very responsive, has excellent support, though rarely needed, and nice hosting plans.

    buddha-trance

    (@buddha-trance)

    @talon

    Yes, I upgraded a few hours ago to 2.6.5, and my feed works fine.

    One tedious thing to do, is to check your WP files on the server, against the ones you downloaded for the fresh install, and see if they match.

    Thread Starter talon39

    (@talon39)

    @whooami
    Yes I checked out 1and1’s version of WP called 1and1 blog. I found it useless, so I downloaded and installed WP manually. I will keep a small orange in mind. I have heard good things about them.

    @buddha trance
    I had started a different thread regarding the feed URL. Someone pointed out that I forgot to setup my permalinks.. I didn’t want to change anything after the fresh install, so I could isolate the problem. I setup the permalinks and the /feed/ link is working again. However the text widget problem is still a mystery. I would like to figure this out before I put a lot of work into this site.
    I can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate you effort to help. I really expected my people to give suggestions considering how large the WP community is. I tried to help a few other people, but my I am a newb, so my experience is limited.

    buddha-trance

    (@buddha-trance)

    @ talon

    Right, the permalinks… Glad you had that one fixed at least.

    A fresh install should be so clean. And the upgrade is fine for me.

    At this point, it may be better to follow whooami’s suggestion. Especially it they ripped off wordpress with their own version. Maybe there is a glitch that makes a real wordpress install not work properly?

    Of course you want a perfect install before putting any effort into the site.

    I will check this thread tomorrow, to see if there any news, and will start again with a fresh mind.

    Thread Starter talon39

    (@talon39)

    Maybe I should start a new thread for this? It looks like the problem is isolated to the text widget, so the thread title really doesn’t fit.

    buddha-trance

    (@buddha-trance)

    Yes, it is a good idea.

    I don’t know if this would help pin point the problem down, but you could create a second text widget with an image linking to a test external site (google or so).

    Then you could see what kind of weird url it creates, and if your domain appears before that (I saw it doubled, for the feed).

    Thread Starter talon39

    (@talon39)

    @buddha trance,
    Thank you so much for all your help. This forum needs more people like you.
    The problem mysteriously fixed itself. I have to assume there was a problem at 1and1. Anyway, everything works normally now. I’m glad I didn’t start changing code. I wonder what caused it? Anyway, thanks to everyone for your suggestions. I’m sure they will help somebody else searching this forum with similar problems.

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    buddha-trance

    (@buddha-trance)

    @talon

    So glad the problem disappeared, now you can get going with your site.

    Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

    Hi
    If you’re still interested, I found out what the mystery is. I was trying to do the same thing.

    The link where you got the original code linking to the image uses curly quotes that are misplaced. They seemed to be immune even to putting through textedit plain text, which is what I always do when editing code.

    If you look at your quote on the first post, you will see you still have them in your html. I did the same thing and got no image. You need to rewrite the quotes around the image using straight quotes. It works!

    i have a similiar problem: google’s webmaster tools checks some urls like this https://www.comefaccioper.it/page/2/%E2%80%9Dhttps://www.comefaccioper.it/come-usare-la-funzione-excerpt-in-wordpress/%E2%80%9D and it gives errors for the backquote. Any ideas for what is originating this errors? thank you in advance

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