Generating an RSS feed

Resolved lottieveronica
(@lottieveronica)

1 year, 4 months ago

I have two websites and I want my blog articles from the one site to show on the other via an RSS feed (seems the simplest option). The first site uses Custom Post Types. When I check the RSS feed for the CPTs, they are valid. I use Elementor Pro to generate the archive pages and loops to query for the articles.

My efforts so far have not shown the CPT articles on any RSS generators. I have four custom post types and I pull all of those four into one page called /articles. I don’t know if this is a problem but I try the RSS feed as the individual post type and they don’t work either.

I tried the PHP function code suggested in this forum (found on another site) and resaved my permalinks. I am not sure if I am missing a step. I suspect it has to do with the archive pages using loops and not WordPress generated archives, but I really don’t know.

I found one forum post here saying their feed was set to false, but I cannot find that option under the Custom Post Type plugin settings. Is this a possible issue? If so, where do I find that setting?

I am at a loss as to what else to try. I do think it has to do with the CPT and/or Elementor Pro’s set up.

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Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith
(@tw2113)

The BenchPresser

1 year, 4 months ago
Good day @lottieveronica

I guess my biggest question is which side of this task is the biggest hindrance right now. For example, the part that would be affecting CPTUI the most is if you have found RSS feeds that have the intended post types included.

For example, as per https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-make-a-separate-rss-feed-for-each-custom-post-type-in-wordpress/ the following 2 URL examples would be potential feeds for just this “movies” post type.
- https://example.com/feed/?post_type=movies
- https://example.com/movies/feed/
I see that you provided https://furnitureflipping101.ca/articles/feed, so is articles one of the post types in question?

As is, we don’t have a UI element specifically for setting a post type’s “has a feed” setting, but it does default to whatever has_archive is set to, which we do have a UI element for.

Ultimately I’m trying to determine if the issue you’re having is because of the sources, or if it’s an issue on the consumption side.
Thread Starter lottieveronica
(@lottieveronica)

1 year, 4 months ago

Thank you.

I see that the feed is now working – I don’t know what I did to fix it, or if it was just a matter of waiting for something on the backend to publish/push the data through? Thank you for your time in trying to sort this out.

Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith
(@tw2113)

The BenchPresser

1 year, 4 months ago

Let us know if you need anything else. We’re around.

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