Name your RSS Feeds
With the addition of “Live Bookmarks” in Firefox 1.0PR, website RSS feeds have become more readily apparent.
Providing access to the feature, but more importantly naming your feeds, is easy.
Defining Feeds
When looking for RSS feeds to supply the user with, Firefox skims through the code of your document, looking for a definition of available feeds. Even if you have RSS feeds on your site, Firefox won’t be able to find them unless they are defined here.
To make feeds readable by Firefox, define them like this:
This will make Firefox identify the feed.
Naming the Feed
Having the feed show up is all well and good, but more often than not, the feed is sloppily titled, and very non-descriptive.
This step is especially important to users of WordPress. While WordPress does, by default, provide several feeds for Firefox in the proper manner, the naming of the feeds is bad at best:
Which feed is “Right”? Most users won’t know the difference between Atom, RSS 0.92 and RSS 2.0. And what are the feeds for?
A better naming would be:
Here, I make the choice what feeds are made available. Additionally, they are named after what they show.
The choice of what feeds you’ll provide is yours, but name them properly:
– notice the “title="Description of Feed, RSS Type"” part. This is where you write the name of the feed.
WordPress Comments Feed
By default, WordPress doesn’t show the Comments feed, only the main site feeds. You can easily add this, if you want to, though. Simply add:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Comments RSS 2.0" href="" />
to the topmost part of your index.php where the rest of your feeds are defined.
Now go name those feeds!
Joen, the screenshots with the scrollbars… They’re using a Tiger-like skin, what’s going on? :)
Tiger-like? What are you talking about?
… Oh… is this one of them MacOSX puns again? Grrr! The entry is sooo in the queue. :)
No no, it wasn’t so much that… Well, also :)—But those scrollbars… That’s how Spotlight in Tiger, the new OS X version, looks.
Hmm. Actually they’re about as “default Windows 2000″ as they can get. Perhaps it’s just my sloppy cropping that makes them look different? Note the RSS popup box actually covers part of the scrollbars. Perhaps that messes it up?
I couldn’t find any Tiger screenshots on Apples’ website. Have one handy?
Haha, the reason they looked so much like my own Operating System, is because there WERE! Tsk tsk. I feel so stupid :)
Hehe, no worries.
I would like to make webpage with generating .rss file by myself before the webpage as main page exclude .rss file is shown ,but I don’t know how I will have to write code down in main page to point to the second page keeping xml or rss syntax.
Who can help me?
Thanks.