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Where is the RSS feed subscription link on Wordpress sites?

by Shai
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I know where to find the rss feed, itself, but I don't see any links to allow people to subscribe to your feed. I know there used to be plugins that people used for that, but what I have been reading on the wordpress site is that those plugins are no longer needed, because the link is now built in to wordpress, and people that want to subscribe to your feed will know where to look.

The problem is, I don't see it anywhere. How can others find it if I can't?
#feed #link #rss #sites #subscription #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Adie
    Most blogs that uses wordpress have this:

    yourdomain.com/feed/
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    • Profile picture of the author CyberSEO
      Originally Posted by Adie View Post

      Most blogs that uses wordpress have this:

      yourdomain.com/feed/
      This will be working for those WP blogs only that have permalinks enabled. The universal links that will work for any WP blog are following:

      RSS2: yourblog.com/?feed=rss2
      Atom: yourblog.com/?feed=atom
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  • Profile picture of the author Baadier Sydow
    You can put it somewhere prominent in a widget or social box. Most RSS readers have things that autodetect the RSS url, but you are quite right in not leaving it to chance.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shai
      Originally Posted by Adie View Post

      Most blogs that uses wordpress have this:

      yourdomain.com/feed/
      Thanks, Adie. I know where to find the feed, I just don't know how to subscribe to it.

      Originally Posted by Baadier View Post

      You can put it somewhere prominent in a widget or social box. Most RSS readers have things that autodetect the RSS url, but you are quite right in not leaving it to chance.
      So the newsreaders can auto detect the feed based on the URL? That would be fine, I guess. I still don't get what they were saying on the Wordpress site...about not needing a widget anymore because it was there automatically, and people that use news readers would know where to look for it. <shrug>
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  • Profile picture of the author Shai
    AH, I think I have figured out what they were talking about. They meant the subscribe function is built into the browsers now.

    Apparently it is part of IE, by default, but I never use IE, so I didn't know. For Firefox and Chrome you need add-ons, but I guess anyone that subscribes to feeds likely has those installed.
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