Adding Feed Icons to the sidebar of your blog provides another great option for visitors to easily subscribe to your RSS Feeds. An RSS feed is automatically produced by your Word Press Blog. If they use Google, Yahoo, MSN or already have an RSS Reader then they can easily subscribe to your RSS feeds by clicking on any one of the feed icons on your sidebar.
How to add feed icons
Here’s a number of feed buttons you can use and the code to add to your blog’s sidebar. Make sure you upload the feed images also.
Tip 1
The code in PLUCK and MSN does not validate for correct XHTML because it uses “&” Replace this symbol with the ampersand i.e.
&
Tip 2
Instead of using
<li></li>
to list the icons use the < /br> tag instead. After you have added all your icons to the sidebar use your favorite XHTML validator to revalidate the page.
Tip 3
Add the Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) links at the bottom of your page (footer) to the sidebar as well. Leave the current Entries and Comments links in the footer. When visitors reach the bottom of the page they can immediately subscribe to your RSS Feeds instead of trying to find them in the sidebar.
Tip 4
If you want a “new fangled” look try this feed icon.
How to add the code
Take the code you see below in the footer and place it in the sidebar:
<a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Entries (RSS)</a><br />
<a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>">Comments (RSS)</a>
<!-- <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. -->
That’s it!
Hi thanks for the great post, good resource.
Where you say:
The code in PLUCK and MSN does not validate for correct XHTML because it uses “&†Replace this symbol with the ampersand i.e.
&
Could you give and example of what you would change say this line to:
&t=” target=”subscriptions”>
ah okay, figured it out, &
&t=” target=”subscriptions”>
Here’s another handy badge to add to your sites 🙂
http://feedvalidator.org
very great post i still look for feed icons 🙂