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If your Subscribe button doesn’t work

By default, a Subscribe button appears on the main page and the archive page of blogs and podcasts, and on photos and albums pages. (You can delete the button if you want.) This button lets site visitors subscribe to an RSS feed of your blog, podcast, or photos pages, where they can access the latest content you’ve published.

There are several reasons the Subscribe button may not work for some visitors when they click it:

  • If the visitor does not have an RSS reader, such as Safari, the Subscribe button won’t work. In Safari, to read a website’s RSS feed that a visitor has subscribed to, the visitor clicks the RSS button in the Safari address field when visiting that site.

  • If you publish your site to a server or hosting service other than MobileMe, the Subscribe button works only if you provide your website’s address in the Website URL field in the Website Publishing Settings window.

  • iTunes must be the default podcast subscriber for visitors to be able to subscribe to podcasts.

  • If your podcast includes purchased music, it is probably protected under copyright law. Music purchased from the iTunes Store may be played only on the computer where it was downloaded or on other authorized computers.


Related Topics

About RSS feeds

Allowing visitors to subscribe to an RSS feed of your blog or podcast

Allowing visitors to subscribe to an RSS feed of your photos

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