I was fighting with RSS feeds in my blog for a while. I thought it should be a simple way, plugin or something to set it up quickly on my blog sidebar.
After trying several things, I just have found a simple solution, which could be done in 5 minutes.
I expect that your WordPress blog is already set up the way it produces RSS feeds (if you do not know, it probably is, by default). Now you just need to add nice little icons and links to your sidebar to actually show them to reader.
So here it is:
- In WordPress admin console, go to Apperance / Widgets menu.
- Add Text widget to your sidebar. Move that widget to the top part of your sidebar (RSS feeds are usually there, but you can).
- Name that widget “Subscribe via RSS”
- Add this code to the widget. The first line is for post feed and other is for comments feed. Change the name of your web page accordingly.
<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/feed/" class="rss">Entries RSS</a>
<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/comments/feed/" class="rss">Comments RSS</a>
- Save the changes and do not forget to save Sidebar changes (hit the “Save Changes” button at the bottom).
It is expected, that RSS feeds’ addresses are as shown above. Note, that also your “rss” style (class=”rss”) will depend on your current theme (e.g. might or might not have an RSS icon).
