Orange RSS icon in Firefox (for Live Bookmarks)

[mvilares]

I wanted the orange RSS button/icon to show up automatically in Firefox, but the autodetect function doesn't appear to make this happen. I'm using PP 1.5 beta 1 but this should work for earlier versions.

Just add the following to the head tag of your image template and change the title and your site's feed URL:



<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
title="My RSS Feed" href="http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?x=rss">



After doing this, I now get the orange RSS icon in the address bar in Firefox and live bookmarking my site works beautifully. If you have multiple feeds, just add a link element as given above for each RSS feed available on your site.

For an example of what I mean, go to my site (http://photoblog.3horizons.com) using Firefox 1.5 and you should see the orange RSS icon in the address bar. If you are using earlier versions of Firefox, you should see the orange RSS icon in the statusbar instead of the address bar.

Hope this helps someone out there.

[HiImSeth]

That's interesting.. I'm wondering why the <RSS_AUTODETECT_LINK> doesn't work for this. I had been trying to figure that out and just plugged the code you posted in and it works fine now. I'm running 1.5B

Anyone know?

[blinking8s+]

Marcelo, i see the rss llive bookmark link in firefox fine now...

[GeoS+]

Both top RSS feeds works fine in my FireFox.

[mvilares]

I'm glad this has worked for others. Although I just realized I shouldn't have said orange...because depending on what firefox theme you are using it won't always be orange.

Maybe this code can be implemented in the final release of 1.5 since all PP sites will have an RSS feed by default? Just a thought...

[GeoS+]

IMHO 1.5 BETA have this tag in all templates by default. If not then it will have it in very close PP 1.5. RC1

[HiImSeth]

Yes, the <RSS_AUTODETECT_LINK> and <ATOM_AUTODETECT_LINK> tags were both in my default "simple" template, but neither of those gave me the rss feed icon as mentioned. i had to manually put the real url in like shown below.

PHP Code:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="hiimseth.com rss" href="http://www.hiimseth.com/index.php?x=rss"> 


feed-related Tags, to be used in image_template.html
================================================== ===

<ATOM_AUTODETECT> || creates the "href-part" of the atom-feed-autodetect-link,
better use:
<ATOM_AUTODETECT_LINK> || to be used in header of image_template.html for Feed in ATOM-Format
<RSS_AUTODETECT_LINK> || to be used in header for Feed in RSS-Format
these tags are implemented in the templates, which come with PP

comes out at my installation with the most actual developer version like this:

<!-- Link for ATOM feed autodiscovery -->
<link rel="alternate" type="application/x.atom+xml" title=" - ATOM Feed" href="http://www.photografitti.de/index.php?x=atom" />
<!-- Link for RSS feed autodiscovery -->
<link rel="service.feed" type="application/rss+xml" title=" - RSS Feed" href="http://www.photografitti.de/index.php?x=rss" />

there was an error in 1.5BETA but that is fixed in the developer version already, we had this topic here already

the type-attribute was mixed, "rss" was set for atom and vice versa ;=(
sorry for that, will be working perfectly in the released version ;=)

[HiImSeth]

Thanks.