Linking Wordpress to Yahoo! 360?

Question

I want to feed Wordpress into my Yahoo! 360 page. What's the right URL for that?

Answer 1

It sounds like you want to use the RSS module on Y!360. It is notoriously unreliable. Either it works (which you may have to wait a long time for) or it doesn't. See below for instructions:

There are URLs - which are just addresses to web pages. Then, there are RSS feeds which you can add to your 360 using an RSS-specific URL.

WARNING: Getting the feed links to be accepted without an error can take SEVERAL tries. No kidding, even if you have the correct URL. The module is buggy. But I have eventually been successful in every feed that I've tried to add (see http://360.yahoo.com/kee_y360 ). Clearing my browser's cookies and cache & refreshing the page a few times in between adding links might have helped. I have not made adjustments the RSS module lately though.

Yet even if you do add a link successfully, Yahoo is no longer updating the feature regularly, so it MAY take MONTHS for it to show up on your 360. You could put the links in the module and wait forever for them to be activated AND/OR you can embed an RSS widget in a blog entry.

RSS MODULE INSTRUCTIONS:

- Go to any the site that you want to get the feed from. Look for the "RSS or XML" link or orange RSS button (okay, sometimes it's a different color). A RSS file will come up on the next page. (If the page looks like raw code, but don't let it scare you! You don't have to subscribe to the feed, you just need to copy that page's URL). You would have to check with Wordpress about RSS, if you don't see an RSS button on your Wordpress blog.

- To add the RSS URL to your Yahoo! 360° Feeds module, click on the "XML/RSS" button, select the URL found in the address bar of your browser, then use "Ctrl-C" on your keyboard to copy that address.

- Click the "Add a Feed (via RSS)" or "Edit Feeds" link in your Feeds module on your "My Page" in 360. Use "Ctrl-V" to paste the URL into the "Add a feed" space in that page. UPDATED: Make sure to adjust the permissions for the Feeds module to something other than "Just Me (Private)".

- When you're done, click the "Save" button below.

NOTE: The Y!360 team is no longer addressing bug reports, as it prepares to launch a new social-networking system in the second half of 2008. See http://blog.360.yahoo.com/product_360 for more details. The 360 team blog is also accessible via the "Yahoo! 360 News" link in the upper right corner of your 360 space. See more about Yahoo! 360 glitches here: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-4D4zxsg6f... .

If you can't get the feed to work, then you can only put a regular link to the Wordpress blog into your 360 space. It can go anywhere a URL is allowed - blast, blogroll, homepage section of Profile Information module, and etc. Or as suggested above, find a RSS widget to add to blog entry.