How to Find the RSS Feed for Your WordPress Blog

by Dave Saunders on January 30, 2009

With social media being distributed as it is, being able to share your blog content through multiple services is an imperative. Sharing, or syndicating, your blog through Friendfeed, Facebook, Yahoo Pipes and others requires you to provide your RSS feed address.

Do you know what your RSS feed address is?

It turns out that WordPress made finding your RSS feed very easy and it works the same way if you’re using wordpress.com to host your blog or if you are hosting your own blog with the free software from wordpress.org.

To help you find your RSS feed address, I put together this little video to show you how. Just hit play and leave a comment below to say hi.

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  • http://shanali.wordpress.com/ Shanali

    Thank you so so so so much!

  • http://www.spotthearc.com/ Wendy

    Just wanted to say a huge thank you for making this. I created a new blog and I couldn't figure out how to find out what my RSS feed was. I didn't realize it was going to be so damn easy. :)

  • http://www.createyourfirstsite.com/ CreateYourFirstSite

    Hi Dave this is just what I was looking for as I am trying to get my head around RSS feeds at the moment. I get a 404 error message when I add feeds onto the end of my URL. Any ideas what I need to do?

  • Andrew S. Dugan

    Hey bud,
    I wish that you were totally correct, but that doesn’t work for us. We have an organization.
    We are .org and adding /feed doesn’t bring up anything but error messages.

  • http://twitter.com/ashique Ashique M. Abdullah

    For those of you who’re getting error messages when adding /feed at the end of your URL, the reason of the error is that you’re not probably using custom permalinks for your blog (e.g. exampledomain.com/my-first-post) and instead using the default one (i.e. exampledomain.com/?p=123).

    So, if you’re using the default permalinks, put /?feed=rss at the end of your URL to generate your rss feed.

  • http://twitter.com/ashique Ashique M. Abdullah

    put /?feed=rss at the end of your URL

  • http://www.davesaunders.net/blog Dave Saunders

    Being a .org will not make any difference to the WordPress software, but it is odd that I can’t seem to find the URL for a general RSS feed for your site.

    I also notice that RSS feeds for comment streams aren’t working.

    For example: http://www.desertministries.org/?p=967&feed=comments-rss2

    This URL was obtained from the little toolbar you have installed under the posts, but that feed is giving an error.

    What version of WordPress are you running?

  • http://www.davesaunders.net/blog Dave Saunders

    Great tip!

    I tried that with http://www.desertministries.org/?feed=rss It does work, but the RSS feed has an error. Still, it’s clearly TRYING to provide an RSS stream. :-)

  • Krr88a

    Thanks!! Great video. Utilizing your info right now!

  • Hungryduo

    I added /?feed=rss to mine and it still gives me an error. HELP!

  • SO

    Hi, wonderful info, however I received a 404 – Page Not Found error.

    I clicked on the RSS feed button on my site and saw “/?feed=rss” appended after my DomainName/BlogName.

    I was looking to add the RSS feed to Amazon’s Author Central. Their process accepted that appended name (and didn’t accept the other things I tried).

    We’ll see if that works tomorrow – they don’t pull past posts, only posts going forward.

    I’m using WordPress 2.9.2 on a Windows hosting platform.

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