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Boggers! Help me set up RSS please!

by zsolt
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I am not a newbie when it comes to blogs, I have been playing with WordPress for some time.
However, as I have never had an own blog so far, I've never really dealt with setting up RSS feeds on blogs.

I am starting a new blog soon, and so far I have made some customization on it without any problem. However, the RSS links don't seem to work.
There is one link in the header and if I click on it it takes me the the feedburner site, instead of showing the XML output of the latest posts like on every other blog I checked. Why is that?

There's another RSS link in my sidebar which doesn't work at all. If I click on it, it just reloads the homepage. I did setup the feed URL (mysite.com/feed) in the widget, so it should work.

Here's my site:
Building an Online Business from Scratch — Stumbling To Success

Please, don't take this as a promotion to my blog, as there's absolutely nothing on it yet. I honestly need help with RSS.

Thank you in advance!

Zsolt
#boggers #rss #set
  • Profile picture of the author apollion
    Zsolt, looks like your feed is not properly configured.

    Do you have a login at feedburner?

    If yes it´s pretty simple..just log in, set up new feed-url..you´re there.

    Hope I remember it right, it´s been a while.

    Btw, it´s a lot easier if you use blogger as a blog.

    Although there is a big wordpress hype, I´m pretty successful with blogger..takes some time to show up in google but it´s a lot easier to use.

    Maybe this helps

    Mike
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    • Profile picture of the author zsolt
      Hi Mike,

      Thanks for the quick reply.
      Yes, I do have a feddburner account and I burnt my with with it. That's why I am confused. It should work.

      Blogger is probably much easier, but the problem is that I love WordPress a lot. I like to tinker with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex_Sysoef
    Looks like your URL in widget incorrectly configured. Since this is WordPress - change it to Stumbling To Success and it should work. If you already have a FedBurner and somehow adding that to your widget - you might have to use that url.

    Sorry, I'm not understanding how you are adding the RSS button as this is fairly simple process and you shouldn't have issues.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alex_Sysoef
    Looks like your URL in widget incorrectly configured. Since this is WordPress - change it to http://stumblingtosuccess.com/feed and it should work. If you already have a FedBurner and somehow adding that to your widget - you might have to use that url.

    Sorry, I'm not understanding how you are adding the RSS button as this is fairly simple process and you shouldn't have issues.
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    • Profile picture of the author zsolt
      Thanks Alex. Problem solved. I went over the settings again and found what needed to be changed. Now my RSS links work as they should. I use a theme that has its own option panel, and I am still learning it.
      Thanks again.
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