LINKS ON SITE—WHAT TO DO

Let me see:
1. If you edit your sidebar.php and delete the “feed” from the beginning of those RSS/Comments RSS links – they will work. For more info see the Codex > Syndication.
2. If your site has valid code – you can leave that XHTML thing there, so the geeks can click on it and see what a good coder you are ??
3. XFN – I uusually delete it, but you can read more about it here: https://gmpg.org/xfn/
4. WP – it’s just a link to WordPress, the software you are using.

Finally, you can delete all of them, of course.

And next time DON’T YELL in the topic title!

thanks! sorry for yelling!

Is there a way to make those RSS links open in a new window?? IF so can you provide an example. I really don’t want to mess anything up.

Well, actually there is no reason to open those RSS link in a new window – because no normal person is “looking” at them ??
They are there for feed readers: programs that can interpret those pages and display the “feeds” of your site on another web site or on a desktop.

thanks! yo’ve been really helpful ??

If you want to find out what the RSS thing is all about, go sign up at one of those online RSS sites. My favourite of those is Bloglines.

Bloglines will start you off with a few sample RSS feeds. These are extracts from a blog – you can read these extracts (feeds) from lots of blogs, all in one happy place. You only click through to the blog entry if it looks interesting. This can save you a lot of time – you can keep up with lots of sites all within your RSS reader, without having to go to each site to see if there’s been an update.

Once you’ve signed up with Bloglines or some similar place, try subscribing to the RSS feed from your own site. Then you’ll see why users would want to do this, and it’ll give you an idea of why you might want to keep that RSS link there on your blog.