Need help. Feel like a dumb ass
Trying to add a site feed - or, one that works. Right now, if you click the lil' RSS thingy in the URL field - it gives you nada. Same as if you click the Atom link in the sidebar.
I've checked the Blogger help page and all it seems to tell me is that I need this in my html:
I've checked the Blogger help page and all it seems to tell me is that I need this in my html:
<$BlogFeedsVertical$>
posted by writegrrrl at
3:45:00 PM
6 Comments:
I don't know if this helps, but I've been seeing your posts in Google Reader. I let it auto-detect your feed when I added your site; it shows up as "http://www.writegrrrl.com/atom.xml"
The RSS icon that shows up in a visitor's address/location bar is determined controlled by a LINK REL statement. In the source code of your template, it looks like your Atom feed link goes to the /blog.html file which may not be ideal (it won't come up as an RSS feed in Safari -- I think). The other LINK REL statement points to a file called "brss.xml" which comes up as forbidden if you try to link to it.
I think it might work better if you change the line that says "link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Writegrrrl - Atom" href="http://www.writegrrrl.com/blog.html"" to this:
"link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Writegrrrl - Atom" href="http://www.writegrrrl.com/atom.xml" />""
The if you change the 2nd line (the one referring to brss.xml) to something else, it might help as well. Like this:
""link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Writegrrrl - RSS" "http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3291353/posts/default" ""
Anyway, I don't know if any of that will help, (I'm not dead sure about the brss.xml link). Good luck, though. (The extra quotes and lack of angle brackets are just me trying to get example html code past the comment filter.)
I'm getting your posts in Bloglines. Haven't checked the Google reader, though.
When I used another blog service, I had feed problems all the time. Switching to something like Feedburner helped. Sorry I can't offer any more than that. I've never pried into blogger's code other than to add a header and changed a few colors.
Haven't been able to get you in Google Reader, so I don't know what that's all about. I'm guessing, though, that you've just taken a standard Blogger template, right? If that's the case, then it really shouldn't be giving you this much trauma. It's more likely to be just a box that needs to be ticked.
If you'd like, send me your template code & I'll take a look, but ... it feels wrong, yeah?
HOWEVER, when I put in http://www.writegrrrl.com/atom.xml to the google reader (which doesn't auto-detect your blog when you plug in the bare url) you now show up ... as having 4 posts, but that's way improved over zero!
Just put the link down on the bottom to http://www.writegrrrl.com/atom.xml and you should be good?
Yay! Thank-you, Rasputin. Just got it to go on the feeder, that atom.xml thingy works.
Now, if only Write GRRRL! would ... write?
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