So what is RSS and what is it used for?
It is a xml file that stores content of your web content (such as blog posts) and it’s used to share this content with people who subscribed it. You can subscribe and read these RSS feeds using RSS readers such as Google Reader.. I’ve been using it to track tech news updates and friend’s blog updates and I love it alot..
So back to the main point.. Upon receiving the email to enable RSS feeds on my blog, I decided to lookup on how to create links for pple to subscribe to these RSS feeds.. And I come across a site which teaches you how to do it.. Basically there’s only a few things u need to do..
1. Ensure that your site is RSS enabled.. If u want a custom RSS feed, you can use FeedBurner’s service..
2. To allow people to click and subscribe to your site, you just need to add this to your source..
[a type="application/rss+xml" href="http://wirused.wordpress.com/feed/"] Subscribe now [/a]
replacing the [] with <> and the link with your RSS feed..
For feeds in Atom format use the “application/atom+xml” value instead.
3. To add the RSS link in the URL bar of Firefox.. Place the following codes in the [head] section..
[link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://wirused.wordpress.com/feed/" title="WiRuS Blog"]
again replacing the [] with <> and the link with your RSS feed..
For feeds in Atom format use the “application/atom+xml” value instead.
And that’s all.. Simple isn’t it?
