Title: Does Atom work? Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Does Atom work? * Anonymous * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/) * I installed version 1.0 on my Ten Thousand Year Blog I noticed the index.php file that came with 1.0 did not include the wp-rss.php (RSS 0.92) and wp-rdf. php (RSS 1.0) links as part of the Meta section, so I added them. I also saw the Atom file and tried adding it the same way, but when I try to click the link with Internet Explorer, it tries to download the file. Can someone explain how to use Atom with version 1.0? Thanks, David Mattison [http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress](http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/page/2/?output_format=md) * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29543) * That’s how Atom works. Don’t worry about it. * [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/) * (@nuclearmoose) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29548) * [@dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dave/), I noticed that you removed background-color: #fff; color: #000; from your body element in the CSS. While this is not critical, it is considered to be “good practise” to declare background and foreground (text) colours. I have noticed that this forum doesn’t have a colour declaration for body either. 🙂 Just me trying to spread the CSS joy! Have fun with your site, David. Craig. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29564) * I checked the Atom Wiki and tried NewzCrawler on one of the implementations. NewzCrawler picked up the Atom 0.3 feed through its RSS Autodiscovery mechanism. I added the Atom URL back to index.php in the Meta section in the same fashion as the other RSS feeds, but NewzCrawler doesn’t recognize it. Internet Explorer 6.x should display the raw XML Atom feed in the same way it does the raw RSS 0.92, 1.0 and 2.0 feeds. That’s not happening. In checking this situation with Netscape 7.1, I think it has to do with the MIME type atom+xml not being recognized by Internet Explorer or Netscape. I’ll check some more through the Atom Wiki, but if anyone has Atom working with version 1.0 of WordPress, please let me know. As for the CSS body element. I didn’t change or remove those in the style sheet that came with 0.72 or 1.0. Thanks for the tip Craig. Keep spreading that CSS joy. * [jaykul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaykul/) * (@jaykul) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29599) * The reason it’s being download instead of displayed is the “application” in the mime type. RSS is marked as _**text**/xml_, but the ATOM is _**application**/ atom+xml_. If it were **text**/atom+xml, IE would display it. The applicable RFC [RFC3023](http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt) suggests that if an XML document –that is, the unprocessed, source XML document– is readable by casual users, text/xml is preferable to application/xml because user agents (read web browsers) that do not have explicit support for text/xml will treat it as text/ plain, displaying the source as plain text. The RFC specifies that the conservative principle is to use application/xml instead of text/xml so as not to put information in front of users that they will quite likely not understand. That’s the reasoning for choosing application/xml for atom, (if you have a look, I think you’ll agree that the raw document is absolutely **not** readable by casual users — heck, even technically adept users would probably have a hard time with it unless they’re used to reading unfamiliar xml dialects. blah blah … P.S.: [it seems to me](http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nottingham-rss-media-type-00.txt) that _application/rss+xml_ would be more appropriate for the rss feeds … * [scooter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scooter/) * (@scooter) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29609) * I love NuclearMoose, he brings CSS happiness to all! * [seraph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seraph/) * (@seraph) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29646) * yep. LONG LIVE THE MOOSE! * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29652) * Thanks NuclearMoose for solving the download aspect. Now, I need to fix that! But, the bigger question, I’ve now discovered, is that the original wp-atom.php does not validate at all at [http://www.feedvalidator.org](http://www.feedvalidator.org)( [http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/wp-atom.php](http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/wp-atom.php)). I tried to modify the wp-atom.php file by following the Atom 0.3 spec ([http://www.mnot.net/drafts/draft-nottingham-atom-format-02.html](http://www.mnot.net/drafts/draft-nottingham-atom-format-02.html)), but no matter what I tried, I produced other errors, so am giving up at this point and tossing this back to the developers. I did leave in one slight modification, added “encoding=”UTF-8”, as that seems to be mandatory, according to the start of this sample, minimal entry from the specs site: A minimal, single-entry Atom feed serialized as XML 1.0: 2004-01- 07T0:13:15Z There’s a caret pointing to the “Z” that I haven’t included. BTW, matt’s sandbox also appears to be broken today (Jan 6, 2004), as there’s a whole bunch of MySQL query statements after the credit line! 😉 I see there’s now a note about some users having issues with release 1.0 and that a bugfix will be released. I’ll grab the latest wp-atom.php from the CVS repository and see if that makes a difference. * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29669) * Check what you say. Every 1.0 installation has the atom feed linked in the proper manner in the head, like: `` * [Nick Momrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtdewvirus/) * (@mtdewvirus) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29680) * Would it be improper to link to the Atom feed from the Meta links section? * [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/) * (@alexkingorg) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29688) * No, that would be the right place to link it – I expect the next versions of the major aggregators will support it. The beta-list version of NetNewsWire does. * [Nick Momrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtdewvirus/) * (@mtdewvirus) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29725) * I guess I should have clarified a little…since the head contains meta links…stupid me! Is it also ok to create a link in the body from the meta section of the menu section? This was left out in the original index.php as was RDF I believe. I’ve added these to my customized page, but should they not be links in the body? * [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/) * (@alexkingorg) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29728) * The reason they were removed from the main template was to make it a little easier on your site’s visitors. Many people don’t know what RSS/RDF/Atom are (or the little XML icons you see on some sites) and having 4 links there that all accomplish the same thing (syndication) is a bit overwhelming. RSS 2.0 is well supported( Atom is not yet) and more feature rich than RSS .91 and RDF, so it was chosen as the link to display. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/#post-29980) * WordPress is publishing invalid date values. Notice this time value (repeated from an earlier post): 2004-01-07T0:13:15Z The hour is shown with a single zero: “0:13:15Z”. According to Atom and W3C, it must read:“ 00:13:15Z”. David Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Does Atom work?’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 16 replies * 8 participants * Last reply from: [alexkingorg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexkingorg/) * Last activity: [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-atom-work/page/2/#post-29981) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics