Thanks!
I’ve been through that and it suggests that there are various “templates included in wordpress” .. wp-rss2.php and so on. But i can’t find any of those anywhere in my installation.
Am I looking in the wrong places? I’ve literally been through every folder.
Those files should be in the same directory as your wp-config.php file.
Okay, thanks. Right, technically those files are present, but none of them are real files, they have a “depreciation” message and some just some php in them.
For example, here’s the content of wp-rss2.php:
<?php
/**
* Redirects to the RSS2 feed
* This file is deprecated and only exists for backwards compatibility
*
* @package WordPress
*/
require( './wp-load.php' );
wp_redirect( get_bloginfo( 'rss2_url' ), 301 );
?>
So, where are the real templates? How can i actually get in there to learn anything?
Well, that is certainly a problem, and the Codex is just a wee bit out of date there.
I can research this later, but not from my mobile right now. Maybe someone else here has an idea?
Thanks! I assume this is normal? I mean, this is the latest download of WP.
At the end of the day, all I’m trying to do is solve two problems:
1) The post author is missing from a special RSS feed I set up. I just need to know what to put between <author>…and….</author>
2) The <description> field – ie, the story body, does not have any line breaks in it.
I can’t remember where I got the template from that I built the special one with, but I recall someone telling me it was the “normal” RSS template, but maybe it wasn’t. 🙁
Thanks for the help so far!
You’re certainly right, that is normal, and I have no clue when that changed.
Here are two similar, yet different, methods for creating custom feeds with today’s WordPress:
http://yoast.com/custom-rss-feeds-wordpress/
http://www.seodenver.com/custom-rss-feed-in-wordpress/
Okay awesome thanks. Yes, I think I must have used one of those examples when I did this.
Notice that <author> is not included in either example? That’s what’s been driving me nuts!
How do I get <author> in there?
If you use one of the above methods, you could try something like this:
<author><?php $author = get_the_author(); ?></author>
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_author
Christ on a popsicle stick…
Nothing. That code just produces blankness, like this:
<author></author>
Why in god’s name is this not some super easy, standard code? It’s just “slap the author’s name in” ….
I’m fairly sure this is the site where I got the instructions from:
http://www.livexp.net/wordpress/custom-rss-feeds-in-wordpress.html
For what it’s worth….
Hm, okay then. Try this:
<author><?php the_author() ?></author>
yeah, nothing, totally blank again!
THe templates reside in the wp-includes folder….
buncha php files that start with feed…. feed-rss2.php for example
GOD. Thank You.
So…. in the RSS2 template it seems to use
<dc:creator><?php the_author() ?></dc:creator>
instead of <author>.
Naturally if I use this in the template I created it kills the whole thing… But at least there is something to look at now.
DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO CREATE A CUSTOM RSS FEED IN WORDPRESS????
The only thing I’m trying to do here is create a FULL FEED rss feed for someone with some minor differences from the main RSS feed. It’s really that simple. I have been working on this for two fucking weeks!!! What the fuck is wrong with this software that makes this so bleeping hard???
I have found ONE SITE that seems helpful, and it’s only flaw is the lack of <author> and the messed up paragraphs.
Are there ANY OTHER instructions out there to do this?
THANK YOU!!!
