Understand that the article you are commenting on offers ONE WAY to create a RSS feed page. It was the way I used back in 2006 when I wrote about it. I don’t have an RSS feed page anymore. There must be hundreds of ways to create one. Surely you can give this some thought and come up with your own unique way to get the job done.

I’m also puzzled as to why one can’t simply create a page from a blank template (or from no template) and just make links? Do you understand what I’m trying to say?

Having a php template for a page, in my opinion, is only useful when you have dynamic content that changes often: for example, you could use php to list your categories and have the first five recent posts from each of them appear in your Achives page.

But when you just have a simple RSS feed links, couldn’t you just make normal links in a page? Unless you add a new category every day, you wouldn’t need to rely on php to generate a list of category links and you could just manually insert them.

It sounds so much more simpler, not to mention people who don’t have as much experience in php could format it into columns, sections, and whatnot much more easily.

Your thoughts?

I’ve put the content of the default theme achives.php in the index.php of my websites theme. The Page Template drop-down list is showing the RSS Feeds link. But nothing is shown in the Page itself.

Any ideas?