RSS urls...please explain

by CatherineMay

Posted: 14 years ago 13 replies

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After again waiting 24 hours for an answer on the wordpress.org support forum, and then getting an "answer" that left me going "huh???...didn't you read my question?" I'm again turning to this forum for help.

This is about RSS urls and feeds, which I am just now trying to get a handle on.

I have three Wordpress sites composed of static pages. They are not blogs.

My understanding is that anything you write on the internet can be submitted to an RSS feed. It doesn't have to be a blog.

So, assuming I'm correct, I should somehow be able to figure out what the RSS urls are to my sites are, and submit them to RSS feeds.

I did manage to do this with my Hubs, so I'm not totally dense on this subject, although, believe me, I am challenged with any geeky. (I haven't yet upgraded to WP 3.0 because I'm afraid I'll mess it up somehow or it will mess up my sites on its own volition.)

When I go to the page source of the WP sites, I see something about RSS and it looks like all I do is add "/feed" to the end of my url, without the quotes.

But I've never seen any other RSS urls that look this simple.

I'm also trying to figure out the RSS urls of my Ezine articles.

Any help would be so great! And I am expecting some kind of response before 24 hours go by!

Catherine

#explain #rss #urlsplease

~kev~ 14 years ago

Originally Posted by CatherineMay

But I've never seen any other RSS urls that look this simple.

How are they supposed to look? What did you have in mind?

wordpress control panel - settings - reading - For each article in a feed, show - and then there are 2 options - full text and summary.

If you want the entire article to show in the feed, selection the full text radio button and click save changes.
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- CatherineMay 14 years ago
  
  When I just add "/feed" to my site's url, Feedburner says it's not valid.
  
  And on the Settings > Reading page, I don't see anything about what the valid RSS url for the website is.
  
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  ~kev~ 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by CatherineMay
  
  When I just add "/feed" to my site's url, Feedburner says it's not valid.
  
  I think it needs the following / after feed. Like this - sitename.com/feed/
  
  But like Istvan said, you will need a plugin to have pages listed in the rss feed.
  
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Johnny Slater 14 years ago

If you are using blogging software such as Wordpress then you can usually find the correct url directly inside each pages <head> section of the source code. Most blogging platforms have code in place to display the proper xml document that the feed service is looking for.

If you are using static html pages, I don't believe it's possible to add it to an rss feed service, since they are looking for xml formatted feeds, not individual pages.
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Istvan Horvath 14 years ago

Actually, WP does NOT create rss feed for Pages. You need a special plugin for that.
WordPress › RSS Includes Pages WordPress Plugins

And the address (URL) will be in a form, as stated above, depending on your permalink settings.
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- CDarklock 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath
  
  Actually, WP does NOT create rss feed for Pages. You need a special plugin for that.
  
  And if you have no posts, WordPress doesn't return a valid feed, either.
  
  Not sure whether this plugin handles that situation. It's sort of an edge case.
  
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  Istvan Horvath 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by CDarklock
  
  And if you have no posts, WordPress doesn't return a valid feed, either.
  
  Not sure whether this plugin handles that situation. It's sort of an edge case.
  
  To be honest, I've never tested the plugin in such an "edge" case.
  
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  CDarklock 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath
  
  To be honest, I've never tested the plugin in such an "edge" case.
  
  I've always wondered whether the default "Hello World" post only exists to make sure the RSS feeds work.
  
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  JesseT 14 years ago
  
  WP 3.0 came with feeds already available and the links comes out as /?feed=rss, rrs2, atom, etc.. As for making your static pages part of your RSS feed use:
  
  RSS Include pages from
  Include Pages in WordPress RSS Feeds. As far as I can tell you can't select what pages to include in your feed so if you have random stuff like a contact us page, it will be submitted.
  
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  CatherineMay 14 years ago
  
  Thanks for the helpful answers.
  
  I do have permalinks for my pages.
  
  I will check out that plug-in.
  
  So, am I just imagining things when I think I've seen it said that everything like articles should be submitted to RSS feeds? I realize that its mainly for material that being updated on a regular basis, but isn't this a good thing for getting backlinks?
  
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  CatherineMay 14 years ago
  
  Mark, I tried html2rss last night, but although I submitted two urls, and it said I had created feeds, I could not find my rss urls anywhere on the site.
  
  I can find the titles of the page feeds, but not the urls themselves.
  
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Mark Jordan 14 years ago

You can find the url inside the source code.
For static html pages, I go to html2rss website and convert my static pages to rss urls before submitting them rss directories.
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