Announcing your RSS feeds using rel="alternate" ?

Discussion in 'XML & RSS' started by Kerosene, Oct 25, 2007.

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    I've noticed lots of WP blogs use different methods of announcing their RSS feed in the <head> section of their site.
    e.g
    
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" ... />
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" ... />
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" ... />
    Code (markup):
    What's the best one to use?

    All I want to do is announce the existence of a basic WP RSS 2.0 feed... or should I be providing several flavours of feed?
     
    Kerosene, Oct 25, 2007 IP
  2. Midano

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    Kersene,
    This is called an Autodiscovery tag. If you're providing different versions (i.e. RSS and Atom), you might as well tag then in the HEAD.
    MORE HERE, including an autodiscovery tag generator.
     
    Midano, Nov 6, 2007 IP