How to add RSS Feed to your Blog and Customize the Icon

by piscianemperor

So you’ve burned an RSS feed to your blog using a website like Feedburner.com. But how do you add an RSS symbol to the sidebar? An RSS feed is no good if blog visitors can’t access the page to sign up for an RSS feed! So you’ll need to add an RSS symbol to the sidebar of your WordPress blog using a text widget.Follow these steps :

  1. Click —->Appearance—>Widgets.
  2. To add an RSS symbol to a WordPress blog, we’ll need to add a “Text” widget. Position the new text widget among your other existing sidebar widgets by dragging it into the spot where you want it.
  3. Open the new, blank text widget that you just created by clicking “edit.”
  4. Copy the HTML code you got from Feedburner—->Publicize—>Chicklet Chooser here.
  5. You’ll see an HTML code, which will be like this :       <a href=”http://feeds2.feedburner.com/wordpress/TGYe&#8221; title=”Subscribe to my feed” rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml”><img src=”http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon32x32.png” alt=”" style=”border:0″/>  </a> <a href=”http://feeds2.feedburner.com/wordpress/TGYe&#8221; title=”Subscribe to my feed” rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml”>Subscribe in a reader</a>
  6. Click —–>Done—->Save changes.
  7. Check out your Blog now.
  8. Now if you want to change the standard icon of the RSS feed,all you have to do is tweak the HTML code above a bit.
  9. To do this,find the image you wanna use as your Feed icon. Remember that it’ll  have to be somewhere on the net. Google for it,you’ll find enough of them .
  10. Just copy the image’s URL and replace the underlined blue part of the HTML code shown in step 5 with the URL.
  11. Suppose your Feed icon is too big,and you want to resize it. Just add  width=”150″ ,height=”150″ in your HTML code like this : <img src=“http://dailymobile.se/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/rss_logojpg.png&#8221; alt=”" width=”150″ height=”150″>
  12. Click —->Done—>Save Changes.
  13. Sweet ! :)
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