Anyone using WP More Feeds?

by sylviad

Posted: 13 years ago 6 replies

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I'm trying to find a plugin that allows me to create feeds of each category (rather than one feed for the entire blog).

I tried one called Category Specific RSS, but it doesn't seem to work. I've done all it says in setting it up, but on the actual page, it only shows the title (Category Specific RSS) with no links below it. I do have one post in one category to test this, but it's not showing.

The plugin site only has 1 message in its FAQ. :rolleyes:

So I just found WP More Feeds which "says" it allows you to create feeds for categories. Well, I set it up, and then it doesn't say what to do next. It's not showing any feeds in the category list or any special RSS category list. And it doesn't show as a Widget, like the other one did.

I thought it might be the theme, so I went to the basic TenTwenty, or whatever it's called, and it doesn't do anything there either.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Sylvia

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Istvan Horvath 13 years ago

You really don't need a plugin for category feeds. It's buit-in: WP makes them for you

http://nitroblueprintreviewer.com/ca...-articles/feed <-- this is one cat feed from your blog
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KathyK 13 years ago

Yeah - what Istvan said - you don't need to make them - you just need to find the correct link for them.

If you use tags, you have feeds for those too. Or different authors if you have a multi-author blog.

You can even have a search-results feed, which I think is overdoing it a bit.
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- sylviad 13 years ago
  
  Then, how do people visiting my blog subscribe to those category feeds? I don't see anywhere on the site that provides the feed to them. You only get the main subscribe button for everything on the site.
  
  I want visitors to be able to go through the categories and subscribe to those they're interested in, rather than things they aren't.
  
  I understand that I can submit those category feeds to feed sites and directories, but that's only part of what I want to accomplish.
  
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  Istvan Horvath 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by sylviad
  
  Then, how do people visiting my blog subscribe to those category feeds? I don't see anywhere on the site that provides the feed to them.
  
  Exactly as I did:
  - clicked on your blog's link in the sig
  - in the sidebar clicked on one of the category names displayed
  - added "/feed" at the end of the URL
  
  Now that you know how to access them - you can add the links to your sidebar e.g. using a simple text widget: you have the URL, you know how to make an anchor tag, you know what the text of the link should be... just do it!
  
  OR
  on a category archive page like this one:
  Uncategorized | Small Business Strategies
  you can have a link/button/call for action at the top of that page; e.g. Subscribe to feed/rss of this category... (or something better)
  
  Originally Posted by sylviad
  
  You only get the main subscribe button for everything on the site.
  
  Because it is not visible, it doesn't mean it's not there. It is there because WP creates all kind of feeds.
  The Codex explains how to access them. Once you got the URL - you can put it in a link anywhere.
  
  Originally Posted by sylviad
  
  I want visitors to be able to go through the categories and subscribe to those they're interested in, rather than things they aren't.
  
  See above the part after "OR"...
  
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  sylviad 13 years ago
  
  My idea was to make it simple - so people didn't have to go adding the /feed themselves, in case they don't know.
  
  Yes, I knew about adding /feed to the end, which does work with my blog. Now I know how to list them to make it easy for people to subscribe.
  Thank you.
  
  This is what the plugin is supposed to do, but neither of the 2 that I tried seem to work. So I've given up on them. Manual, it is.
  
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dassad 13 years ago
Show ous your website where you want to use and display feeds per categories and I'm ure that we can help you out. Also that plugin that i suggested o you don't know if displays the feeds or just creates them. Also you can go to Istvan's way to, to use the base generated category feeds.

Also if you shoe the plugin or the base feeds i think that you have ti implement manually in your theme and show them to your visitors.

so add this line of code somewhere in your sidebar.php for example.
Code:

<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=1&feed =RSS'); ?>
this lists all your category feeds in your sidebar. But also DO THIS ONLY if you know what you are doing.

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daSSad
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