RSS is a very old method of telling your subscribers that new content has been added to your website. The webmaster would add the new content to the RSS feed in the website and the subscriber would use a RSS reader to pick up that feed and review the new material.

With the growth of social media especially Facebook And Twitter people are constantly checking for updates throughout the day. They also keep an eye on new emails arriving.

Today surveys show that less than 9% of internet users have ever used a RSS feed and Google has in fact discontinued their rss reader.

But there is now a way to use your rss feed that is built into WordPress by default.