How to Add RSS to Your WordPress Website
0WordPress is the biggest content management system with millions of websites that are running on this platform. WordPress allow its users to display photos, videos, sliders, links, comment box and many other options on their websites. WordPress also enables the site owners to keep in touch with their website visitors by adding RSS Feeds on their website or blog.
What is RSS?
Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary (RSS) is commonly known as the RSS feed or News feed. In early days if you want to keep track your favorite website you have to bookmark their URLs in your browsers. However, it was a manual way to keep updated yourself with your favorite website posts.
Well, RSS feed options allow your users to get the email alerts in their inbox without visiting a website manually. If you will add RSS option on your website your site visitors can subscribe your website’s newsletter on daily, weekly or monthly basis.
How to Setup Your FeedBurner for WordPress Website
Do you want to add RSS on your website? If “YES” then follow the given steps where you will know how to add RSS to your WordPress website.
First of all you need to have a Google account, then visit Google’s feedburner service page to begin.
Type the link to your WordPress Blog Feed. A good SEO Friendly WordPress theme automatically creates your feed link that will look like: yourdomain.com/feed/
Then choose the title and address of your feed. Give a title of your feed the same as your blog is recommended. It will be better if your feed address will be short and easy to remember.
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How to Integrate FeedBurner RSS into WordPress
The above steps tells you how to create an RSS of your WordPress website, now you need to display it on your website. For this purpose you can add WordPress “FD FeedBurner” plugin, which allows you create an easy redirect of your site RSS feed. However, there are several methods to display RSS on your site but for beginners FeedBurner plugin is an easy way to use.
More Resources:
- WikiHow Tutorial to Add RSS to WordPress Blog
- Your Answers on WordPress.org Forum
- WordPrss.com RSS Widget Resources