RSS Feed

That is an xml file. What exactly do you want to do with it?

Does it matter that I link to a php file as my rss feed?

Obviously not, since everyone who uses WordPress does. But if your server supports .htaccess and mod_rewrite, this plugin can help you “fake it”.

https://boren.nu/archives/2005/03/29/feed-director-plugin/

Not as far as I can tell. I process all my feeds through feedburner, and it’s never had any problems parsing wp-rss2.php.

Do I have to process the feeds, can’t I just link to it?

Also when I tried to Live Bookmark it, it says:

Live Bookmark failed to load

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you needed to do any additional processing for your feed; you do not. I use feedburner just so I can get feed-related statistics and take advantage of splicing services.

Live Bookmarks is trying to add this feed: https://www.nicktoye.co.uk/feed/. That gives me a 404, which tells me you may have a problem in your .htaccess file, or you have an actual /feed/ directory which you need to delete. More info in a related thread here.

I don’t seem to have a feed directory,

This is my .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wordpress/wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^category/?(.*) /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wordpress/wp-feed.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^author/?(.*) /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([0-9]{1,2})?/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&page=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wordpress/wp-feed.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4&feed=$5 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/?([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([_0-9a-z-]+)/trackback/?$ /wordpress/wp-trackback.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wordpress/wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wordpress/wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA]