Custom Category Page +Static Content +RSS?

  • phil2016

    (@phil2016)


    7 years ago

    Hello,

    My site at [ redundant link removed ] is built on the Divi theme.

    I previously created some custom Category pages for my WP site by creating and styling them with the Divi Builder (to ensure continuity of style), then using a redirect from the default WP category pages to my new ones.

    The reason was because I wanted some ‘static’ content above the category feeds to help with seo.

    EG: /mystery-books/

    I used the ‘blog’ module at the bottom of each new category page to act as the ‘feed’ for that category — BUT it turned out that Divi’s blog module does not produce RSS feeds (go figure!).

    SO, MY PROBLEM now is that I wamt to syndicate each category’s content via RSS and these category pages DO NOT produce a feed!

    I have tried creating one using online feed creators (EG: https://fetchrss.com/ ) but they don’t seem to recognise the content created by the Divi theme’s blog module (go figure!).

    So — HOW do I achieve this category page:

    /mystery-books/

    = with static content at the top and a feed of the category’s pages at the bottom…

    AND Produce an RSS feed from the page so I can syndicate the content?

    Thanks!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    7 years ago

    RSS feeds are built by the WordPress system itself.

    The only thing I can tell you is if you have your feed setting set for X number of posts and you have posts for that category then you’ll have a RSS feed containing as many feeds as you decided up to that number in that category.

    So if you set your feeds to 10 and you have nine posts in a given category then you’ll have nine posts in that category’s feed. If you instead had eleven posts you’d then get the newest 10 posts in that category.

    Your redirect and custom pages are for presentation within the website. Your pages normally don’t ‘get a vote’ in the RSS regardless of how you built those pages. Unless you want to create special RSS feeds which is beyond the scope of the help available here in these forums.

    I do think the RSS feeds ‘as is’ will probably be fine for your purposes… SEO is not normally a consideration when providing RSS feeds as the feeds, when configured properly, will provide a snippet of the complete article and send the reader back to your website to ‘read more’.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    7 years ago

    I don’t know what Divi is doing and have no way of finding out. The way WP works by default is feeds are only for posts or comments, not pages. If you want to have a page with static content at the top and a list of posts below, that can be done with custom page templates, but it will not affect feeds since it is a page. As mentioned above, feed listings will link directly to the associated post and will bypass this page.

    A small amount of static content on a page probably will not help SEO a lot unless there is other good content on the page. The best SEO strategy remains producing good interesting content that people will want to read.

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