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How can I follow WordPress rss feeds using Live bookmark? e.g. https://globalnews.ca/feed/

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tomlogan
tomlogan

When using Live Bookmarks to subscribe to RSS feed the subscribe button is greyed out. This tends to occur on WordPress driven sites, such as my own: http://muse-initiative.umich.edu/feed/ and other, major sites: https://globalnews.ca/feed/ etc: https://wordpress.org/showcase/

but then not this one: http://www.tribunemedia.com/feed/

I've tried starting in safemode with addons disabled to no success.

When using Live Bookmarks to subscribe to RSS feed the subscribe button is greyed out. This tends to occur on WordPress driven sites, such as my own: http://muse-initiative.umich.edu/feed/ and other, major sites: https://globalnews.ca/feed/ etc: https://wordpress.org/showcase/ but then not this one: http://www.tribunemedia.com/feed/ I've tried starting in safemode with addons disabled to no success.

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Thank you - that spurred me to figure it out.

I believe the reason is simply that in the .../feed/ page the <title> tag was empty. This was the case for my site and the GlobalNews site, but not the tribunemedia site.

Other Firefox RSS reader extensions, chrome, and safari apparently don't need that tag full, but Live Bookmarks does.

Thanks for your reply

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Tonnes
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Without investigating thoroughly, I think there is no type specified for the RSS/Atom feed included in the main page on those affected sites. Hence the button will be grayed out, though the feed URL itself may still work.

Could it be you need some plugin for Wordpress to achieve what you want, or one of them causes a conflict? See this and related pages for more info.

tomlogan
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Thank you - that spurred me to figure it out.

I believe the reason is simply that in the .../feed/ page the <title> tag was empty. This was the case for my site and the GlobalNews site, but not the tribunemedia site.

Other Firefox RSS reader extensions, chrome, and safari apparently don't need that tag full, but Live Bookmarks does.

Thanks for your reply