Blogspot RSS tweaking Help

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I saw a post by Aequitas where he mentioned his blog (aglocohype blog) and I saw his RSS feed on the top right hand side. It reads Subscribe to: then it has 2 RSS icons one that says posts and one that says comments.

How did he do that?

I did sett up an RSS feed but it only has one RSS icon and it reads Subscribe in a reader. I know I can change that text but how do I get the set up that Aequitas has?

 

[Aequitas]

I saw a post by Aequitas where he mentioned his blog (aglocohype blog) and I saw his RSS feed on the top right hand side. It reads Subscribe to: then it has 2 RSS icons one that says posts and one that says comments.

How did he do that?

I did sett up an RSS feed but it only has one RSS icon and it reads Subscribe in a reader. I know I can change that text but how do I get the set up that Aequitas has?

Its quiet easy blogger has two types of RSS feeds one for comments and one for posts, here is what you can do to make that happen.

On the older blogger templates you can include the following code this will display all of your sites RSS feed information, you need to put this in between your head tags

<BlogSiteFeed>
  <link rel="alternate" 
   type="application/rss+xml" 
   title="RSS" 
   href="<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>" />
 </BlogSiteFeed>

What this will do is output the following code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Agloco Hype - Atom" href="http://aglocohype.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Agloco Hype - RSS" href="http://aglocohype.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss" />
<link rel="service.post" type="application/atom+xml" title="Agloco Hype - Atom" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/38702424/posts/default" />

As you can see it displays both RSS and ATOM type feeds, the one you'll be dealing with is mainly RSS and it only shows your posts the following line shown here

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Agloco Hype - RSS" href="http://aglocohype.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss" />

Edit this line to look like this

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Agloco Hype - RSS" href="http://aglocohype.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss" />

Notice the slight difference, I just changed posts to comments and now you have a link to your RSS comments on your blog.
You can take it one step further to create a feedburner feed like I have done, it just helps organize your RSS a bit better.

To make this all super easy for anyone to understand just create a hyperlink to your post or your comments:

Example:

<a href="http://aglocohype.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss">Comments</a>
<a href="http://aglocohype.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss">Posts</a>

If this completely confuses you give me the link to your blog and I'll create both links for you so all you need to do is copy and paste them where ever you like to make it work.

 

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I posted a reply to this and it didnt work, sorry if this post is a dupe

This is the first time adding RSS feeds and I should be smart enough to figure this out on my own and so far its really pissing me off.

Your code doesnt seem to tie in with Feedburner feeds as I see in your blog. I have no idea where this code goes? does it go into the templates>edit html code section or in the templates>page elements (and edit the feed code?)

I am using the default code that feedburner gave me.

<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/HDTVguidesComments" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt=""
 style="vertical-align:middle;border:0" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png"/></a> <a
 href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/HDTVguidesComments" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a></p>

I dont see how your code would fit in there with out interfering with the feedburner code.

my blog is HDTV Guides

 

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Your using a new blogger template which is gay, well I've always hated the new blogger templates, I feel it takes away the control you have with your code. But the good news is we can fix this super easy. In your blogger dashboard go into the templates>edit html section and find this bit of code, I'm sure you know where it is because you've put it in your above response.

<h2 class='title'>Comments</h2>
  
  <div class='widget-content'>
    <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/HDTVguidesComments" rel="alternate" title="Subscribe to my feed" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt="" style="border:0" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png"/></a><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/HDTVguidesComments" rel="alternate" title="Subscribe to my feed" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe in a reader</a>
  </div>

Ok first things first run over to FeedBurner and toss in this exact URL to make a new comments feed.

http://hdtvguides.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss

Now take that feedburner URL and replace this part of the above code with the new url (the first code section).

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/HDTVguidesComments

You'll have to replace both links the first and the second with the new feedburner URL that you got.

From there once someone clicks on your comments link they will be brought to you comments RSS feed.

Let me know if this worked out for you.

 

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Not sure if I followed your instructions but,

I didnt find that bit of code in Template>edit Html
I found it in Tempates>page elements then I clicked the edit page element for my commnets feed.

I went to feedburner and edited my HDTVguidesComments feed and replaced the orginal feed details with this url

http://hdtvguides.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss

the one you gave me.

The original code:

<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/HDTVguidesComments" rel="alternate"
 title="Comment FeedTest" type="application/rss+xml"><img alt=""
 style="border:0"
 src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png"/></a>
 <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/HDTVguidesComments" title="RSS
 Feed">Comments</a>

I left as is in the page element settings

Now it works thanks for your help!!

So to sum up I created 2 RSS feeds at feed burner and used thier default RSS code.
all I did was copy the URL you gave me and changed the orginal feed I created at feed burner.

Now it works...... I was doing some research over the internet and your way was WAYYYYYY easier then everyone else and I know very little HTML

Thank you!!

Now I have to figure out how to add the spotplex code ( they just gave me an invite )

 

[Aequitas]

Now it works...... I was doing some research over the internet and your way was WAYYYYYY easier then everyone else and I know very little HTML

Thank you!!

Now I have to figure out how to add the spotplex code ( they just gave me an invite )

Well I'm glad it worked out for you.......my instructions were a little more tailored to using the old blogger template because you don't have to deal with the whole Page Elements.

In my opinion they created this new system because the majority of the people using blogger don't have all the HTML experince required to go in and customize the code by hand, this new system will favor to those users much better.

P.S. Yeah thats all you were doing is copying the feedburner code, you've got it down pack now.