By fuzzy_texan on

The RSS feed icon that usually sits at the bottom of the screen is missing on my site. It was there when I installed, and somewhere along the way it seems to have disappeared. Initially I assumed it was the theme I was using was hiding it - but I have since switched back to Garland and it is still missing.

Can anyone please give me some hints on where this may be configured, or why it is not visible?

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fuzzy_texan commented

Forgot to mention - the feeds are all working fine. They are accessible via the URL bar, but are just not appearing at the bottom of the browser like usual, and like on drupal.org.

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shyamala commented

You need to go to Administer->Site building -> blocks and enable Sydication block, to get the RSS icon visible. Which version of Drupal are you using?

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fuzzy_texan commented

Enabling the syndication block enables a block that has the main rss feed in it. I have already done that but that's not what I'm looking for.

I was talking about the rss feed icon that appears on pages that have rss feeds. So if I'm on the blogs page at the bottom of the page there will be a feed for http://example.com/blog/feed. It appears in the URL bar, but is not appearing at the bottom of the page like it did when I first installed.

Sorry was not clear on that.

Also using Drupal 5.1

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mike211175 commented

I am having the same trouble. If anyone knows the answer to this I would also appreciate a response?

Regards
Michael

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I'm just discovering this problem as well. I enabled views_rss and added the RSS argument to my view.
The RSS feed is rendered fine when you visit the URL directly, or use the icon in the address bar, however there is no icon or link at the bottom of the view itself.

the only unusual thing I'm doing is using theme templating for my views, but I've disabled the template and the problem persists.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Ah-hah. I switched back to garland as my theme and I now see the RSS icon towards the bottom of the page. This obviously means it's a theme issue for me, and perhaps also for the person who started this issue - have you double-checked that you have no template or theme files overriding the default display?

I still don't know what's wrong with my theme that's causing it to cut out the rss icon though...

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

OK, this is what worked for my theme-based problem, and may point to a solution for others:
in my themes/[my theme]/page.tpl.php file, I added the line:
print $feed_icons

I chose to add it right after the div with id "content-bottom" but i guess you can put it wherever you need. adding:
span class="clear">
right before the above line may also be a good idea, though not necessary.

So for others with this problem I'd guess either your theme is not written to output the $feed_icons variable, or there is some code which runs between the views module and your theme which is changing or erasing the $feed_icons variable.

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mike211175 commented

Thanks so much 5190 - your solution worked for me!

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emdalton commented

Thanks, this was exactly what I needed!

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colorado commented

The posted code didn't work for me, until I added a ; like this:

<?php print $feed_icons; ?>

Now it works.

Thanks much for this post!

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jeffbellamy commented

I entered the above code and now there is an RSS icon . I was using Marinelli/ Giordani. I changed the Marinell page and the icon came back to the address bar, then changed the Giordani page and now I have an Icon at the bottom.

I've seen other threads where people were trying to get rid of the icon, maybe this could work in reverse.

Thanks