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You know what I’m sick of?

It’s those small, but annoying boxes bloggers are putting in their blog content that says something to the effect of:

If I want to subscribe to your feed, I know what to do. I’m kinda smart. If you’re content is so engaging that I can’t NOT subscribe (double-negative I know, but it helps the point), then I will…but its not because you suggested it. Its because you’re site has “RSS Staying Power” (new term I just coined). Its because I can learn something from your site and enjoy the way you communicate ideas and knowledge. Not because you want me to.

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For some reason or another, I never figured out until today digging through the widgets files in wp-includes directory in your default WordPress installation, that you could easily insert RSS feeds anywhere in your site.

This started with a task I had for MakeUseOf.com to include RSS feeds for the author pages. After digging into it, I found it was quite easy and it uses the Magpierss code almost exactly.

All you really have to do is insert a little code in the template file you want to use (or a page or post using one of many php inclusion plugins for WordPress).
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