Feed Locations WordPress Plugin
With the onset of FeedBurner and similar services, a lot of bloggers will find themselves not using the default location for the RSS/Atom feeds. But if you want to provide the links to these new feeds, you’ll have to edit the template files any time you change templates, and make sure you remember to edit all the templates you use (if you’re implementing template switching) and remember to update the <link> tags in the HTML head as well.
This just seems too messy, especially when the location of the feeds isn’t hard-coded into the templates, but is generated with a function. So this plugin allows you to set the URLs of the RSS and Atom feeds for your posts. It’s a very simple plugin that just adds a page to the ‘Manage’ admin menu called ‘Feed Locations’ and it provides you with five text boxes: RSS .92, RDF (a.k.a. RSS 1.0), RSS 2.0, Atom & the Comments RSS 2.0 feed. You can change any or all of the locations, if you leave one blank it will stay as the default WordPress location for that feed.
So what this means is that if you set your RSS 2.0 feed location to, say, a FeedBurner url, anywhere that your templates show a link to /feed/ (the default location of thye RSS 2.0 feed) it will be replaced with the FeedBurner address. No editing of the templates required. And it will remain no matter what template you use.
Installation & Setup
Download the plugin (see download link under ‘Plugin Information’ on the sidebar) and put the file in your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Activiate the plugin and then click on the ‘Manage’ menu and then ‘Feed Locations’. You should see a page that looks like this:
From there, just enter the respective urls and then click ‘Update’. That’s it. Told you it was a simple plugin.
Technical
The function that the templates use to get the feed locations is bloginfo('rss2_url') or bloginfo('atom_url') etc. So anywhere that you want to use the feed locations you’ve set, use those functions. The available parameters are:
- rss_url (RSS .92)
- rdf_url (RDF, RSS 1.0)
- rss2_url (RSS 2.0)
- atom_url (Atom 0.3)
- comments_rss2 (Comments RSS2.0 feed)
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I have tried to follow the directions but perhaps I am too green to even get the basics? I still have the old atom.xml file in my directory (which used to get written by blogger) but oviously it isnt being updated any more. So rather than redirect TO it I want to redirect FROM it... am I using the wrong plugin?
Thanks for your time. Any advice or link to a place I could get it is very much appreciated
jamie
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I installed Wordpress on my server, and set up a site. It's a relly nice piece of software. However, I am missing a piece of functionality, and
couldn't find a suitable answer for it. Mayou you know a plugin I could use?I need to automatically inserts ads in my posts.And not AdSense ads, but rather HTML snippets defined by me (affiliate links, etc). Let's say I would insert a tag in my post:
-- ad here --
and the plugin would automatically replace it with some HTML code, when the post is displayed on my site.I really don't need any fancy configuration options etc, just the basic replace functionality.
Do you know a plugin that can handle this?
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I like the plugin, looks good and works well.
I have one question though, my blog is on a variety of subjects and I would like to be able to tell the bloginfo function the feed location, depending upon which category I am currently viewing, instead of having to enter it into the plugins management screen, kind of like this:
bloginfo('http://www.somesite.com/feedlocation/') .
Is this something you might consider for a future update?
Thanks.
Mark.
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David
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Thanks for the work mate!
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My login is Kisakookoo!
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with this one:
Now it works.
thanks!
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<?= $ft['name']?>
with this one:
<?php echo $ft['name']?>
Now it works.
thanks!
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Thanks
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How challenging would it be to modify your plugin to allow the site owner to create multiple feed redirects? For instance, we're only really interested in RSS 2 on our WP site. At the same time, we are doing some interesting things like running a domain and a subdomain off the same WP install using the same custom theme. We've coded things such that depending upon the domain the visitor is on (boldlygoing.com or AreYou.BoldlyGoing.com) the theme will call different navigation, different categories, different widgetized sidebars.
Since both "sites" still use the same database (users, post data, etc) I need to be able to burn different feeds with feedburner. The challenge with this is then having to go into the theme and ensure those correct feedburner URL's are going to get displayed with the page the visitor is on.
So, short story long, can your plugin be modified to allow me to explicitly enter a feedburner URL that might be for a specific domain/feed or subdomain.domain/feed, or even a feedburner URL that I create for domain/category/feeed.
Hopefully, this is clear. If not, please drop me a line, and thanks for your time. We do appreciate it!
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Can anyone help me with this?
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I much prefer the first approach, because then readers are subscribing to YOUR feed URLs, not the FeedBurner ones. With the second approach, you're tied into FeedBurner. If you ever want to leave their service, then you'll have to get your subscribers to unsubscribe from the FeedBurner URL and then subscribe to the new URLs.
While FeedBurner is unchallenged at present, so was Hotmail before GMail came along - okay there were others such as Yahoo Mail, etc, but the point is you may not always want to use FeedBurner. It's better to keep people subscribed to YOUR feed URLs not the FeedBurner ones if possible.
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