I was having some trouble figuring out how to add a single RSS feed to Feedly today, so I thought I would make a write up about how one can do it.  First lets find a feed that we want to add.  I like Design You Trust so I will get their feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/dyt

Alright, now that you have the URL, feedly works off of Google Reader.  I had never used Google Reader in my life but it looks like Feedly just makes it prettier.  Anyway, go into Google Reader normally (http://www.google.com/reader/) and then on the left side, click “Add Subscription,” it is in a green highlighted box. Paste your link and click “Add.”

Good, now you just need to add it to Feedly.  If you are prompted to, go ahead and add it to the folder called “z.feedly.seeded”  and you can also add it to the subcategory where you would like it to appear in Feedly; for example, Thinkers, Auto, Web Dev, et cetera.  In this case, I am going to add it to design.

If you were not prompted to put it in a folder right away, or just happened to navigate away from that option.  Just click on the “Settings” link in the upper right corner, click on the “Subscriptions” tab, and find your feed.  Use the drop down menu to add it to “z.feedly.seeded” and then the subcategory of your choice.

Wait a minute or two for Feedly to find your feed and show it in unread material.  Enjoy.

EDIT

Thanks to Edwin Khodabakchian, one of the Feedly software developers for pointing out that you can also add a feed to Feedly by visiting the website and waiting for a +f to appear in the far right side of your address bar.


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Another solution is to go to the website associated with the feed. At that point, you should see a +f blue button appear in the firefox address bar, you can click on the +f to open the add subscription page, edit title, categories, etc. and click on subscribe.

Please let me know if it does not work as advertised.

Note: you are correct that every subscription that you add to google reader will be updated in feedly the next time you restart your browser or login and logout from feedly!

Edwin Khodabakchian added these pithy words on Jun 18 08 at 5:34 pm

Ahh yes! I see it now, very nice.

solomon added these pithy words on Jun 18 08 at 5:58 pm

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