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  • Like ThorHammer, I’m not sure if I am violating site rules by recommending a book. And moderators, please feel free to delete this message if it is inappropriate, and accept my apologies. But I’m using WordPress 2.8 Theme Design by Tessa Blakeley Silver, published by PACKT. Yes, I know WordPress 2.8 is now a thing of the past, but even so, I found this book addresses lots of the issues you mention, from HTML and CSS to widgetizing your theme. I’m not much of a coder (I draw pictures for a living, I don’t code unless my life depends on it), but I found this really helpful.

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    Hope this helps.

    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!

    @twotwentysix: I was having the same problem with the RSS icons not apearing in browsers. I was advised to insert the following piece of code between my <head> and </head> tags:

    <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'); ?>" />

    This apparently alerts browsers to the fact that the feed exists. It worked right away for me, so big credit to Esmi who passed on this tip. Hope you get everything sorted out OK.

    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!

    @esmi: I posted earlier today, I think this is the URL for the topic: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/370570?replies=3

    Apologies if I messed up on etiquette here, I’m pretty new to all this.

    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!

    I’m in a similar state of confusion about RSS feeds right now. Like bspaugh, I think I’m failing to grasp some basic concept. I too have added links to my feed… and the links work, and they take me to a list of my posts… EXCEPT, according to Google Reader, my site doesn’t have a feed at all! And there’s no RSS icon showing up in the navigation bar of Safari or Firefox. Bspaugh, is this the same problem you’re having? I’m so hoping someone can help us out here! Otherwise we shall just have to remain confused together!

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