Creating a feed

[ardhra]

Hi all,

I created a feed account here to test it out, and it seems to be linked to a subsidiary feed of the main blog. (The feed is flipfloppingjoy_feed for the blog flip flopping joy.) The blog has a 'community news' section where people can post links to news about issues of relevance to the blog (social and racial justice, mostly), which is what the feed account seems to be linking to.

I can't seem to find if the blog publishes a feed, but I'm sure it does because I read it through Bloglines!

Will this update on its own? If not, can it be changed with the correct feed?

I thought it may be because I entered the blog's URL (http://flipfloppingjoy.com/) rather than the feed URL (http://flipfloppingjoy.com/feed/) into the 'Add Feed' field on the Feeds page. I checked out the relevant FAQ, which doesn't clarify which URL you need to enter.

I'm sorry if this is actually a Support request rather than a getting_started post. If it is, I'll take it elsewhere.

Comments

Feed addresses

[cesy]

Will Bloglines tell you what feed address it uses?

You could always create another feed using the feed URL, see if it works, then open a Support request asking them to delete the one that doesn't work.

I think if you just enter the blog's URL, DW will search for a feed in the "obvious" places on that site, so if the community news feed is more "obvious" than the actual blog, it may have picked that instead, in which case using the blog feed address should fix it. Did that make sense?

Re: Feed addresses

[ardhra]

The feed address is http://flipfloppingjoy.com/feed/ (which I did get from Bloglines, incidentally).

I thought about creating another feed account, but the username I would prefer for the account has been taken up by the account with the community news feed associated with it. I guess I'll just have to open a Support request.

Thanks for your help.

[pegkerr]

I have a related question: I created a feed, but how do I html code the name of it, if I want to post in my journal to let people know I've made it?

[ardhra]

You just use the same <user name=site_feed> tags as for other accounts.