{"id":1076,"date":"2018-11-16T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/langa.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2018-11-16T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:39:25","slug":"a-reader-asks-about-those-dual-rss-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/16\/a-reader-asks-about-those-dual-rss-feeds\/","title":{"rendered":"A reader asks: About those dual RSS feeds…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reader Henry Winokur asks:<\/p>\n

“Hi Fred: Is there any reason to subscribe to both Langa.com’s and Langa Comments’ RSS feeds? If I only need one which would you recommend? PS: I’m getting an error message above this box that says “please enter a URL in the Your Website (optional box). I did, (www.henrywinokur.com) and yet I still see the message. I’m going to delete the info, so the message will go through. Thanks!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Sorry for the trouble, Henry!<\/p>\n

You asked two separate questions.<\/p>\n

First, about the two RSS feeds:<\/strong><\/p>\n

My WordPress setup keeps two separate databases: one for the main posts — the articles and info that I publish — and a second one for reader comments, and my replies to those comments.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, reader comments contain excellent additional information or (ulp!) corrections to the information I presented. Other times, a reader comment may spark an additional exchange of information from me, and them, and back again.<\/p>\n

The Comments feed also contains some system-generated informational messages —\u00a0 they appear as from “Langa.Com,” instead of from, say, me (“FredLanga,” “Flanga;” etc.)<\/p>\n

I use the free RSS Feed Reader<\/a> for Chrome. That app clearly shows who wrote a comment, so it’s easy to ignore the system messages (those from “Langa.Com”) and focus just on ones from humans.<\/p>\n

My suggestion: Subscribe to both feeds for maybe a week or two to see what works for you; and then delete the feed you don’t want.<\/p>\n

If your RSS reader has trouble finding the feeds, point it here:<\/p>\n

RSS for main articles<\/strong>:
\nhttps:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n

RSS for reader comments<\/strong> and my replies:
\nhttps:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/comments\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Second, about the “Your Website” entry on the Contact form:<\/strong><\/p>\n

That field was suggested by the forms software. Because it’s causing trouble, I simply eliminated that field. Done!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Thanks for writing!<\/p>\n

Permalink: https:\/\/wp.me\/paaiox-hm<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

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Want free notification of new content like this? Click here<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have a comment? Want to ask Fred a new question? Click here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reader Henry Winokur asks: “Hi Fred: Is there any reason to subscribe to both Langa.com’s and Langa Comments’ RSS feeds? If I only need one which would you recommend? PS: I’m getting an error message above this box that says “please enter a URL in the Your Website (optional box). I did, (www.henrywinokur.com) and yet…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-reader-asks","category-langa-com-news","category-misc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaiox-hm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":306,"url":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/09\/get-free-automatic-notification-of-new-content\/","url_meta":{"origin":1076,"position":0},"title":"Get free, automatic notification of new content","author":"Fred Langa","date":"2018-09-09","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks for your interest! 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