Rss Feeds – not owkring or not configured

I see your rss feed here:

https://flowersdelivereduk.com/blog/?feed=rss2

You have feed in front of the url on the entries rss at the bottom of the page. You could remove that if you like. Only certain browsers understand what to do with that. Is that your problem? That the browser doesn’t understand the link? Or have you fixed the problem now. Anyway, I see the page I linked above just fine.

i think like you say it’s because i have the word feed in the url.

when i click the link, regardless of browser the page can not be displayed.

where could i remove the word feed from and is it ok to do so without breaking anything?

thanks

I think it’s right in the theme. Perhaps in footer.php.

But it looks like you found it. It’s gone now.

resolved?

I have a Mac and a Win comp, all my Mac browsers (Safari, Firefox, Opera) get the feed: but none of the Win browsers (Netscape, Firefox, IE and Opera) know what to do with it.

I’m not sure why the feed: is there if it doesn’t work at all on Windows browsers, works fine in my Mac browsers still if it’s not there.

21stproject: The feed: identifer will usually work fine on Windows machines if you have a separate feedreader actually installed. Most people, however, don’t have such a program.

thanks – resolved

Oh, that makes sense now Otto, thanks for the clarification, was going to eventually read up on that but you’ve saved me some time.

But if alot of people, me included, don’t have a reader installed, isn’t it best to not include the feed?

Hm..but I’d think people who read alot of RSS would have one, and most people who don’t read, don’t have one installed, so why bother taking it out.

I’ve wrestled with that decision myself. I tend to not have it. The people with an rss reader will know how to copy the link and paste it into their reader. Some people with readers don’t have their browser recognizing the feed: identifier. When they try and copy that url, it’s often not recognized in a reader, and they get confused.

It’s not all quite meshed right in my opinion. I’d like to see firefox be smart enough to offer to add a feed: to it’s live bookmarks if it doesn’t have an external rss reader to hadn off too. And maybe that choice should always be presented. And similar behaviours for other browsers would be good too.