Fresh Curls

Thank you for this link.

I’m still stuck.

This “Picnic” site was able to link Feedburner to to the RSS icon built into the Theme Alley “Thea” theme.

I can insert a separate FFM widget into the sidebar but that results in me having TWO RSS feeds on the page – the FFM and the theme’s built in RSS link (as with this picnic site)

I just want to link the built in RSS on the theme to my Feedburner.

https://qtpicnic.taliacjohnson.ca/

Thank you. I have installed the plug you suggested.

A lot of information, twists and turns and some questions here. I trying to be detailed in case it sheds some light on what might be the hang.

FFM seems alright but it missing the orange graphic associated with RSS. At least as far as I can see in the “picnic” example site (above) that widget has the orange graphic. Also, the FFM has an external ad website built into the interface that shows up as WPF – and links to a WordPress plug in developer’s site. Am I stuck with that?

In past evenings I downloaded a plugin that showed up with the title RSS in Appearance – Widgets. I dragged this RSS Widget to the Sidebar. The graphic / icon seems to be the same the three orange half circles for FFM on the FFM info page – yet the FFM is not showing any orange circle graphic when it actually appears on my page.

When I installed the FFM after receiving your reply the RSS I had previously installed “short circuited” – it no longer appears on my page. Poof!

The last few nights the RSS was showing up in the sidebar of the Thea theme by Theme Alley. That seemed alright. Now it seems to have jumped to the very top of the page, well above the sidebar, and almost centered. It doesn’t respond to me dragging the widget lower or higher in the list of Sidebar widgets.

I just learned what an RSS and a feed was in the last few days. I’m not sure what the “end goal” is supposed to look like.

What is the goal of an RSS feed? How do I know if it is working.

AS mentioned above, my example is this site:

https://qtpicnic.taliacjohnson.ca/

If I click on RSS a new page opens and it is a sort of summary in a sort of old school font. Is this a feed.? How do people subscribe to this feed for example? I read something about Feed Readers?

How do I update my feed / auto send my posts to my feed and know that it is in fact working.

Whoa!

Thank you.

100 Thank yous. You are right. I clicked Share. I needed to click Embed. Problem solved. Thank you so much!

I don’t know if it is a problem with the Theme Thea by theme Alley or what.

I go to the Youtube Video, click share, copy the code, past it into a Text Widget in the sidebar. All that shows up when I click “view site” it the embedded code as a string of text (path). There is no video to be seen, unlike the site above where the person got the video to show up.

Will the embed only work for Posts? I’m trying to embed the video in the Sidebar.

Thank you. So wonderful! ??

No. Pasting the short code into a Text widget and dragging it into the Sidebar doesn’t work. I’m missing important steps? Ug!

What is short code?

Can the above be pasted into a Text Widget and then drag the Text Widget into the Sidebar?

So complicated:

https://web-profile.com.ua/wordpress/plugins/iframe/

Still, here is someone who got it working:

https://qtpicnic.taliacjohnson.ca/

a functional Youtube video displayed in the Sidebar…

Asking for suggestions / instructions on how to achieve the above result.

Thanks

Thank you. ??

I am using Theme Alley’s Thea theme. I am using everything that the link below is using.

https://qtpicnic.taliacjohnson.ca/

When I refer to the Default I believe a more clear term would have been Sidebar.

I arrived there by going:

Appearance – Widgets

the heading reads:

Drag widgets from here to a sidebar on the right to activate them. Drag widgets back here to deactivate them and delete their settings.

For example I can drag a Text widget or a Facebook widget to the Sidebar ( it is to the right and is basically a box that opens with a down arrow drop down.) The Sidebar has a bo titled Default. I can drop the widgets into this box and they work. It also has two other boxes 300X Ads and 150 x Ads.

The above blog/ website I reference has embedded a Youtube video into the Sidebar as opposed to into a page. that is what I am seeking help with doing.

Thank you.

Thank you both.

So, from what you are saying, specific plugins aside, in general, if I install a plug in and it doesn’t show up as a widget that can be delployed in the site, then there is a problem and I shoudl either go to that plugin’s support page or try a new plugin?

If I go to the plugins dedicated forum, what questions about plugins can I ask in the Wordpres Troubleshooting Forums? What is acceptable?

The normal sequence of events is that installed and activated plug ins show up in appearnace – widgets?

Thank you.

Hi WPyogi,

Just to clarify, are you telling me to repost this question or future questions in a different forum other than trouble shooting. If so what forum do you suggest.

Also, when I look athte main Facebook plugin 9above) it seemed to be geared towards developers. I’m just an end-user looking for a plug in to link my WordPress page to Facebook using a widget that will allow people on my WordPress page to see a thumbnail of my Facebook page and get to that Facebook page with a click.

Where can I learn more about what Jetpack is, what the functions are and how it works. I see I have it installed, but it isn’t clear what it does, especially with relationship to linking with Facebook.

Thank you.

Thank you!

It is now working with the instructions you provided. The hex codes in the code did not work. Typing out the color names in the code did work. Thank you.

I got the Simple Share Buttons to appear on my main page. Like it says, these are “share” buttons. I’m catching on.

I think what I’m really looking for is what plug in was used so page viewers can click oncc and go to the Facebook event page?

Is there a separate plug in being used for the Facebook event page for this example site?

Hi, Could I start a new thread with my above question? I would be comfortable with that approach. Lisa.