Comments on: WordPress: custom functions and RSS feeds

By: Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:49:10 +0000

Hi Kristarella,

Fantastic tutorial! I’m trying to do something “sort of” similar and I was wondering if you had any idea how to go about it.

Basically I have my main feed and I’d like to exclude any post with a specific custom field value, in this case it’s “_rss_include” and “0″.

Any ideas? Any help would be awesome. You can see the code I’m currently using (and failing with) here at the WP support site: http://wordpress.org/support/t.....st-1690828

Cheers,
Robert

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:18:35 +0000

Hi, I just came across this entry of yours when I was researching how to make my own custom feed, and it’s exactly what I needed. So thanks. Thankfully it’s the second hit when searching for “custom wordpress feed” in google. I needed a custom feed because I’m making some flash applications, and I wanted to integrate content from my wordpress blogs, so I’m using the rss2 feed as a data source. But the default feed doesn’t have everything I want. At first I altered the main rss2 file for wordpress until it had everything and was accessible in my apps, but I knew this wasn’t a permanent solution because it will be wiped out as soon as I upgrade, and I didn’t want to damage the validity of the rss feed for other readers. So I then tried a suggestion of creating a custom page that’s actually a feed which worked fine, but the theme I’m using is one that automatically creates a link in the navigation for every page that exists. So I had to modify the theme code to exclude the page number for the feed page, but I would have the same issue eventually when a newer version of the theme is available. Your solution is definitely the best option.

Thanks again.

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By: kristarella

kristarella — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:44:59 +0000

Your welcome Arjen. Thanks for the email and the comment.
The main reason I like creating my own functions, rather than using plugins is because I don’t like being dependent on someone else, who might not be able to update or maintain the plugin in the future. That said, I use plenty of plugins that probably do much more complicated things than I’m capable of.

Matt, the links are probably the most educational bits, definitely check them out. As for the rest, this is potentially a confusing and boring post, but I wanted to write it because no one else has written it before. I tried to find this information and it took much longer than I thought it should. Hopefully it’ll be easier for someone else who finds this post. :P

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:22:56 +0000

I can see what you’re trying to do, but I think you lost me about halfway through..eep

I’ve saved all the links you’ve dropped in this article, might have to start educating myself a little.

By: Arjen

Arjen — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:23:53 +0000

Great post. I’d like to thank you for your email and the comments on my blog. I really appreciate it. I think I’m going to run my photoblog within WP, as I like it having it all under the same software.

Of course I’ll have a look at the software you mentioned.

At the moment I’ve created a photoblog category within WP, and excluded it from the general “blog” and the feed. I’ve created another feed for the photoblog.

After some research on Google I found that there are some WP plugins to show the EXIF data of an image.

Thanks so much for the time you’ve spent to sent me such a valuable email.

Keep up the good work,

Arjen