RSS is short form for Rich Site Summary and it is a simple way to distribute fresh content of your website on the web. Webmaster use RSS to quickly update their blogs over net about their fresh content. RSS feed is a function of software that allows feed readers to access your site for new content and post the update to RSS subscribers.

There are different ways how the RSS is used by the readers as some include RSS while others use atom or RDF files.

By default wordpress blogging platform allows various feeds generated by bloginfo() tag.

To add RSS feed to your wordpress blog search for bloginfo () tag which is typically located in sidebar and/or footer file of wordpress theme and insert this code.

For RDF/RSS 1.0 feed

<?php bloginfo(‘rdf_url’);  ?>

For RSS 0.92 feed

<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>

For comments RSS 2.0 feed

<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>

For RSS 2.0 feed

<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>

For Atom feed

<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>

Adding feed to your wordpress blog is important because not all wordpress themes features RSS feed types.