Title: RSS problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS problem

 *  [humain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/humain/)
 * (@humain)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-1-4/)
 * Hello, this is my first post to this forum and I appreciate anyone who takes 
   the time to help me out.
 * Here’s my problem, I’m using a custom WP theme, basically just my code with WP
   tags added in later, so it’s very possible important code could be missing. I’m
   trying to add a link to my RSS feed, but no posts show up. Here is a link to 
   my site: [http://bugsandcranks.com/](http://bugsandcranks.com/).
 * The RSS link is in the right column. I don’t believe it’s the link thats the 
   problem, but rather some other code is missing which needs to be detected. I’m
   very new to RSS so please bare with me.
 * If you need any more info or something to be more clearly stated please let me
   know.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-1-4/#post-480532)
 * Try:
    1. Delete the word “feed:” from the link 2. go admin > Your profile and
   add a nickname for yourself
 *  Thread Starter [humain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/humain/)
 * (@humain)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-1-4/#post-480535)
 * Done and done.
 * Ok, so now the feed works, but what’s the deal with the nickname showing up as“
   <ADMINNICENAME>”?
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [humain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/humain/)
 * (@humain)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-1-4/#post-480537)
 * Oh, nevermind. Stupid question. Just saw the dropdown option to change that.
 * Thanks for helping me out though. It’s very very appreciated.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-1-4/#post-480538)
 * Where does it show up?
 * Edit. OK, I am glad it’s working.
 *  Thread Starter [humain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/humain/)
 * (@humain)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-1-4/#post-480539)
 * Actually, I know you don’t have all day, but since I’ve got you here maybe I 
   could ask another question or 2.
 * What’s the difference between the link with “feed:” and without. It seems to 
   work both ways now. Which is preferred?
 * Also, is there a way for the feed to just show category posts if you’re on that
   category page? I couldn’t find a tag for that, does one exist or should I just
   go the plugin route?
 * Thanks again.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-1-4/#post-480543)
 * 1. feed is a new(er) protocoll not recognized by all browsers/readers (google
   for it)
    2. WP produces out of the box category feeds, like example.com/category/
   mycategory/feed 2a. Using some conditionals you may be able to display different
   feeds; see more: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags)
 *  Thread Starter [humain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/humain/)
 * (@humain)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-1-4/#post-480546)
 * Sweet. Thanks Moshu. Continued development and support are the main reasons I
   went with WP over the other content publishing solutions. If you’re any indication
   of the rest of the mods here then I definitely made the right choice.
 * Thanks again.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-1-4/#post-480548)
 * Actually, I am the “meanest” mod around here 🙂
    All the others are much nicer…

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problem-1-4/#post-480548)
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