Mar 29, 2008
opml doesn’t like me
Righto. As Adrian instructed, I went off like a good girl to try and install the OPML file so I could have blogroll of all of integrated media on my blogs. I have had some problems with my blogroll before, however, and so I had a sneaking suspicion this wouldn’t work.
Sure enough, downloaded from mog, uploaded into my blog and….nothing. I am not one hundred percent sure, but I don’t think the theme I am using supports a blogroll function (it is pretty old). The last time I edited/changed my blog roll, I had to go into the theme editor, open the sidebar section and edit in my links manually. Time consuming stuff.
Of course, being the misoneist that I am, I am loathe to get a different theme, and that is why I have no fabulous new blog roll.
I’m going to ask Adrian in class if this is just me being daft, or if this is actually a possibility. Perhaps if I could somehow extract the urls from the opml file i could just copy and paste them into my sidebar?? Putting them in one by one seems tooooo time consuming though, so for the moment you will just have to deal with the current blogroll. It’s still very tasty.
[...] Have just tried the OPML download. Unsuccessful. And i’m so glad to have read Caronline’s post regarding her problems, and my conclusion is that we’re facing the same issue. That’s also probably the reason why i can’t seem to get my Link Categories viewed in order. or should i say, there’s NO categories at all shown. [...]
[...] http://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~s3061400/blog2/?p=100 and Rachel have had problems with the OPML file. We can check this out in labs, as a) your theme should support a blogroll (that’s like a word processor not being able to paginate) b) the categories for the blogroll are all managed within WordPress so that is where we should be able to sort this out. [...]