I am having the same exact issue. Only, the way I was accessing the comments feed within a category was using a URL that looked like this:
yourdomain.com/?feed=comments-rss2&cat=XX
Neither your method nor mine seem to work in 2.7. I am looking for a solution, but no luck so far. It looks like a (undocumented) feature that was thrown out with the bath water.
Since this was the only page I found even mentioning this issue, I can only hope that others will find it and hopefully someone will have a solution.
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SimonJ
(@simonj)
Yeah. I made a ticket about this in the trac. Seems that it’s broken with the cat ID…
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9630
there is a workaround : it works with the category slug…
yourdomain.com/?cat=catname&feed=rss2&withcomments=1
Or…
yourdomain.com/comments/feed/?cat=catname&withcomments=1
Hope this help
S.
I had the same issue. Upgrading to wp 2.7.1 solved it.
The issue hasn’t been solved with WordPress MU 2.8.4.
Simonj’s suggestion shows all comments, regardless of category.
Hi, I think I’m having the same issue. My regular category feeds don’t seem to work properly.
http://example.com/category1/feed – this shows only comments for that category, not posts.
http://example.com/category/category1/feed – this gives a 404 error.
Anyone ever find any solutions to this issue? I’m using 2.9.1.
(@simonj)
15 years ago
Hi all!
Ok, here is my issue…
Ok, last month, I made the migration from about 10 single installation of wordpress to wordpress mu for our site. (a cultural newspaper where every journalist have his own blog.)
I had no problem. Everything works well.
But, in the wordpress single user installation, I used to display the last 10 comments for each category with an RSS feed.
wathever.com/?cat=XX&feed=rss2&withcomments=1
from what I can tell, this feed doesn’t work on my wordpress mu installation… No matter if I try it on my main blog or any subdomain blogs.
I tought this problem could be relative to my MU migration…
But but but… While asking google god about this problem, I found the Ryan Boren’s Blog whom explain the “feed everywhere” feature for wordpress 2.2 wich include the possibility to get the comments feed from a category:
http://boren.nu/archives/2007/02/25/in-the-trunk-2/
But, If I follow the link on his page, it leads to a “page not found”… The same problem that I have… :
http://boren.nu/archives/category/wordpress/comments/feed/?withcomments=1
Of course, Ryan uses the last version of WP…
So, I would guess my problem is not relative to the migration to MU, but with the upgrade to 2.7 I did in the same time. Seems to me that the comments feed for a category has been lost in the upgrade…
I also did a test on a single user installation with the last version and I have the same issue…
Anyone is aware of this issue in 2.7 ?
Could you test this feature on your intallation ?
Just try this link on your site (with 2.7 WP) with a category ID wich you know have some comments :
yourdomain.com/?cat=XX&feed=rss2&withcomments=1
I just wonder if it works for someone…
Thanks
S.