How to Create an RSS Feed for a Wordpress Blog

Burn Feeds and Put an RSS Symbol in a Wordpress' Sidebar Widget

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Many bloggers find Wordpress to be one of the best and most comprehensive blogging platforms, but many new, less experienced bloggers find the Wordpress blog difficult when it comes to getting the blog set up in the beginning.

Fortunately, setting up a Wordpress blog doesn't have to be complicated and confusing. Adding an RSS feed to a Wordpress blog is one of the most important things a new blogger can do, as creating an RSS feed for a blog will help develop a readership base.

This article will go over how to create an RSS feed for a new blog, and once that is complete, the new Wordpress blogger can put an RSS feed symbol in the sidebar of the Wordpress blog using a text widget and basic HTML code.

How Do You Create an RSS Feed for a Wordpress Blog?

Creating an RSS feed for a blog - also known as "burning" a feed - is fairly simple. Websites like Feedburner.com make it simple to set up an RSS feed for a blog using the following steps:

1. Click the "Get Started" link on the Feedburner homepage.
2. Enter the Wordpress blog URL and click "next."
3. Follow the prompts to create a URL for the blog's RSS feed and click "next" to create the new RSS feed.

This process of creating a blog RSS feed takes less than five minutes. Once the RSS feed is created, visit the URL that was selected during the RSS feed creation process. Here, blog visitors can sign up for an RSS feed subscription.

How to Create an RSS Feed for a Wordpress Blog:
Burn Feeds and Put an RSS Symbol in a Wordpress' Sidebar Widget