Avenir

Go to Options>Reading in the admin panel and change the number of recent posts displayed to 1. Caveat: This will make it so that all of your post listings (all archives, category listings, etc.) will only display one post. I don’t know how to make only the front page display one post. Someone else will have to help you with that.

I think that’s the octal escape code for the double angle quote. I believe that CSS requires you use the octal escape code when specifying content attributes. Why use this and not some other more normal method? I have no idea.

The code to enable autodiscovery should be located in the header.php file of whatever theme you’re using. It should be a bunch of <link> elements like this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" " href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />

Feed: is a relatively new protocol (like Skype’s call:), so it’s not supported by some browsers. When it is supported by all browsers, then it will do as macmanx says.

And to add the generic image, go into the template file where the RSS link is, find it, and replace the text between the anchor tags with:

<img src="rssimg.gif" alt="RSS for this blog" />

Of course, change the attributes so they match your blog.

It won’t. Clicking on the RSS feed will just bring up the raw XML file that powers your RSS feed. The clicker will need to have a feed reader program installed on his computer and then will need to add the link to your feed to their feed reader’s subscription list. Then the reader will pull the latest entries from your site.

Your site should also have ‘auto discovery’ links in the header file that allow programs like feed readers and browsers like Firefox to automatically detect the location of your feed and pull it out.

Oh, well that’s just because RSS is marked as an acronym and the CSS stylesheet you’re using has specified that when the mouse hovers over an acronym, the cursor will change to the ‘help’ cursor. This is not a problem with anything in your files, just a stylistic choice made by whoever designed the theme you’re using.

If you’d like to remove it, open the style.css file for the theme you’re using and then search for the part where the ‘acronym’ and ‘abbr’ tags are defined. Remove anything that says cursor: help; in those definitions and then cursor will be a normal pointer when hovering over the link.

That’s just a matter of going into the proper theme file (probably sidebar.php or footer.php) and editing out the feed: in front of the RSS links.

Sparky, I get an error when trying to view that.

The problem is probably an open parenthesis or a missing close-quote somewhere above that line in the code. Could you try saving the code of that page as a text file and putting it up on your server so that we could look around in to find the missing symbols?

I don’t know what slash software is, but WordPress does support both of those things:

To allow new users to register, you’ll first need to make sure that the ‘Anyone can register’ box is checked in the Options section of the admin panel. I forget what sub-section it’s in, but it should be there. Then you’ll also need to uncheck ‘New users can blog,’ or a similarly named option on that same screen. Then direct new registrants to wp-register.php, a file located in the root of your blog. Alternatively, you can register new users by going to the Users section of the admin panel.

WordPress’s user levels feature allows you to control what users can do. Read more about it here:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/User_Levels

Maybe you could put the image tag after the <?php comment_text(); ?>? That would generate the gravatar image on a new line under the comment text.

For reference, the comment text itself is generate between the lines <?php foreach ($comments $comment) : ?> and <?php endforeach; ?>. Try placing the image code anywhere around there and see what happens.

Try going straight to wp-rss2.php in your blog’s root directory. If you have permalinks turned on, you can tack /feed onto your blog address and that will also bring up your feed.

I’m stupid for not seeing this. You shouldn’t have the words height or width in their either. Your function call should be:

<?php comments_popup_script(400, 400); ?>

Because this tag uses the function-style parameters, you can’t have the equal signs, and other stuff. You can only have the parameter values.

You should also delete the folders that start with wp-. This might be your problem. Try deleting those and then re-running upgrade.php.

Remove the dollar signs, I think. That’s all I can see that might be causing problems. Look around here, maybe:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/comments_popup_script

This site has all the info you’ll need:
https://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml