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Every blog should include RSS. People can use RSS reader to read your posts without visiting your website. As a default there are two RSS links which are Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) in the footer of my blog. Right now click them and see what is going to happen. If you use Internet Explorer, you will get this famous message “The page cannot be displayed”. If you use Mozilla Firefox, you will get this alert message “feed is not a registered protocol”. What is the problem?

Let’s go to a search engine, and find out what is going on. Anchor link for Entries (RSS) is feed:http://www.itcserver.com/blog/?feed=rss2 I am familiar with everything but what is feed: in front of http? Here is the search results:

A discussion is going on WordPress Support Forum to solve the problem that I mentioned above: RSS Not found/Not registered protocol. Another discussion: When I click on RSS and Comment RSS this happens….

macmanx says: The problem you are experiencing is due to the new (and not yet assimilated) feed: protocol. This protocol should (technically) launch your favorite news reader and either subscribe to or check the feed for new articles. To remove it…

Therefore I removed the “feed:” in footer.php and it worked…

I want to point out two things here:

• I tried to edit footer.php in default theme by using WordPress administration panel. Go to Presentation, Theme Editor and click footer.php. It says “If this file were writable you could edit it.” I can edit and change the any file for default theme, but after editing how can able to save a file? I could not save the file! I downloaded footer.php into my computer and edited; uploaded again. It worked. But the question is how can use the Theme Editor to save the files after editing?
• I found out that there is a new protocol in the web world: feed. I will search this feed protocol and publish the results as a new post.

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