Understanding and Joining RSS Feeds

By providing an RSS feed from your blog — which WordPress creates automatically — you are giving people who use feed readers ready access to your new content. Feed readers let someone read the updates of all of his or her favorite websites by going to a single location. When you read feeds, you too can keep up with your favorites.

What Is RSS?

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RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it really is simple to use. All it takes is a feed reader and feeds from your favorite sites. Blogs and news sites typically provide feeds. When you open your feed reader, you see content from each site that has been added ...

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