Title: Custom RSS Feeds question
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Custom RSS Feeds question

 *  Resolved [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-rss-feeds-question/)
 * I made some changes to feed-atom.php a while ago and it looks like the latest
   wordpress update to 3.4 over-wrote them. First of all, is this possible?
 * Second, what is the right way to customize my RSS? I’ve seen about 100 articles
   on the topic and I still don’t understand why there is no simple template – in
   the regular theme folder – that I can edit? Is there any way to do this? Specifically,
   I’m trying to add a little thumbnail image to my excerpt in the feed, which worked
   beautifully until my work was over-written (apparently).

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 *  [potentweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/potentweb/)
 * (@potentweb)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-rss-feeds-question/#post-2827916)
 * It got overwritten because you hacked one of the core files. Here is the link
   to the correct way to use custom feed templates.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Feeds](http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Feeds)
 *  Thread Starter [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-rss-feeds-question/#post-2828029)
 * Okay great, thanks!
 * So…. any idea how to customize that PHP code to simply replace the default atom
   template with “xyz.php” ?
 * The example is this:
 *     ```
       remove_all_actions( 'do_feed_rss2' );
       add_action( 'do_feed_rss2', 'acme_product_feed_rss2', 10, 1 );
   
       function acme_product_feed_rss2( $for_comments ) {
           $rss_template = get_template_directory() . '/feeds/feed-acme_product-rss2.php';
           if( get_query_var( 'post_type' ) == 'acme_product' and file_exists( $rss_template ) )
               load_template( $rss_template );
           else
               do_feed_rss2( $for_comments ); // Call default function
       }
       ```
   
 * But that seems to be something about comments… I can’t figure it out at any rate.
 *  Thread Starter [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-rss-feeds-question/#post-2828031)
 * Anyone with some PHP skills know how to decifer that? It can’t be that complicated….
 * Simply … “skip the default Atom feed” and “use this” ….
 * Looks to me like there’s a lot more going on in that example!
 *  Thread Starter [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-rss-feeds-question/#post-2828032)
 * Holy cow. I just discovered the Feed Wrangler Plugin. Halleluja. … problem solved.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-rss-feeds-question/#post-2828032)
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