It's a fairly simple matter to determine the base feed URL, for any given blog. Besides the base feed, a blog may publish an extensive array of additional feeds, which won't be listed directly in the blog template code.
Starting with the URL of my feed, what do I do? I could just open my favourite feed reader, or social networking web site, and paste the URL in place. But what if the feed reader or web site wasn't working properly, or I misunderstood the instructions? What if I see
The smart thing to do, before you setup a FeedBurner feed or a similar non Blogger service, is to test the feed. Many modern browsers (Firefox or Internet Explorer, for instance) will give you a formatted display, when you are loading a feed URL.
This blog is The Real Blogger Status http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/.
This blog has 4 site posts feeds.
Besides the blog posts feed (in the many aliases), each individual post may publish a comments feed. And the blog, using a number of labels, may publish a number of label feeds. Any properly formatted feed URL, referencing a published feed, will likewise produce a formatted feed display - in a browser which formats feeds.
Here we see a known oddity with Chrome, which does not, natively, render a feed as a formatted display with Subscription options. To do this with Chrome, you have to install an add-on accessory.
Click on the above feed link, for instance, and the browser should inform you, explicitly, that you're viewing a feed. If you load what you think is your feed URL into your browser, and you don't see a similar display, recheck your URL.
Starting with the URL of my feed, what do I do? I could just open my favourite feed reader, or social networking web site, and paste the URL in place. But what if the feed reader or web site wasn't working properly, or I misunderstood the instructions? What if I see
Invalid URLor the like, what do I do?
The smart thing to do, before you setup a FeedBurner feed or a similar non Blogger service, is to test the feed. Many modern browsers (Firefox or Internet Explorer, for instance) will give you a formatted display, when you are loading a feed URL.
This blog is The Real Blogger Status http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/.
This blog has 4 site posts feeds.
- Atom (classic): http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/atom.xml.
- RSS (classic): http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/rss.xml.
- Atom (new): http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/feeds/posts/default.
- RSS (new): http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss.
Besides the blog posts feed (in the many aliases), each individual post may publish a comments feed. And the blog, using a number of labels, may publish a number of label feeds. Any properly formatted feed URL, referencing a published feed, will likewise produce a formatted feed display - in a browser which formats feeds.
Here we see a known oddity with Chrome, which does not, natively, render a feed as a formatted display with Subscription options. To do this with Chrome, you have to install an add-on accessory.
Click on the above feed link, for instance, and the browser should inform you, explicitly, that you're viewing a feed. If you load what you think is your feed URL into your browser, and you don't see a similar display, recheck your URL.
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