Hello - newly created WP blog at http://www.a1-outdoors.com/outblog. Very new to just about everything here, so forgive the newbie question - but my rss and comments/rss in the sidepanel don't seem to be working. Looking at the sidebar code template, from what I can tell, the code appears correct, but I get a dead page on the rss feed and rss comments feed. Can anyone provide some guidance here? Thanks, Paul
Your link looks like this: feed:http://www.a1-outdoors.com/outblog/?feed=rss2 It needs to look like this: http://www.a1-outdoors.com/outblog/?feed=rss2 Just go into the code and remove: feed:
Cricket, when I did that, clicking the rss link simply opened up a page with all my code on it. Let me paste the actual code as it's written now: <li><a href=feed:"<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>'); ?></a></li> (for the rss example)
It's best to use permalinks for everything, so follow these instructions: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks -- that will help you get everything sorted I believe.
This is the best advice anyone can give you about your new blog! For the code you have there, just remove the feed: and you should be okay.
Cricket - when I remove the "feed:", and if you then click the rss or rss comments feed link, what comes up is a new page which is just a page of my source code - as if you were viewing this page, and, in Firefox, you hit view: view source code - surely this isn't right?
I am not exactly sure what you are saying. Does it look like the code on the direct link to your rss feed here?
Yes, that is what it should look like. Although I have a few very basic WordPress tutorials on my own site, you really can't beat the Getting Started With WordPress tutorials collected on the WordPress site. They will take you through everything you could possibly want to know. It seems overwhelming at first, but it doesn't take long to pick it all up.
Many thanks, Cricket. I will re-do the code accordingly. So, someone then just cuts and pastes the code? Also - saw your article on dup content. Now you've given me some fresh things to think about, and a quandary. I've recently submitted a couple of articles to directories, and am afraid the dup content may be triggered. So much to learn, but it is interesting. Thanks again. Paul
Actually they use special readers to display the code in a normal format. There are some articles on the following site that really make it easy to understand. RSS Tutorials