RSS by category?

  • allyanders

    (@allyanders)


    18 years ago

    I’m just now starting to understand RSS so forgive me if this is a dumb question. And if it’s answered elsewhere, just point me there. I’ve searched around but I’m not positive what exactly I’m looking for and that makes it kind of hard to search. 🙂

    What I’d like to do is take RSS feeds of my WP blog and stick it on external sites. My dh tells me that’s doable. But, I specifically want to stick feeds of certain categories on other sites. Or perhaps allow others to do the same. I run a site for book related news. But I only want to stick news about certain genres on other websites I run. Those genres are categorized via wordpress categories.

    Is there a plugin already available that would do this?

    Thanks bunches!
    Ally

    http://book-bee.com

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  • Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    18 years ago

    Plug in? Naw. RSS by category is built in.

    http://domain/blog/category/feed/

    Well, that gets you your feed. To read the feed into another WP blog, check out the Syndication plugins at http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Syndication

    Thread Starter allyanders

    (@allyanders)

    18 years ago

    my external site isn’t worpress. Will it still work? I’ll take a look at that page, but that’s a lot to digest. *grin*

    for instance i’d love to post anything in the romance category to the news page at singletitles.com. <– isn’t wordpress. 🙂

    Thanks bunches, though!

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    18 years ago

    The first part will work (the RSS that your blog can emit is already there).

    The second part (Syndication plugins) does your non WP site no good. Alas.

    Are they on the same server, by chance?

    If not, you’ll have to do some digging at other forums, depending on what the external site is built with, for RSS imports.

    Thread Starter allyanders

    (@allyanders)

    18 years ago

    They’re on the same server.

    The other site is built in php by my dh. Basically as content management system. Now that I know I can get RSS for each category I think I’ll get him to show me how to add an RSS feed to the CMS.

    Thanks again.

    Thread Starter allyanders

    (@allyanders)

    18 years ago

    One last question……. you said it would be category/feed/
    I’m still trying to figure out the way WP does urls. Mine shows up as http://www.book-bee.com/?cat=3

    So when you say category, does that mean the actual category name, ie book-bee.com/romance or would book-bee.com/?cat=3 work?

    Sorry for the dumb questions. 🙂

    Ally

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    18 years ago

    Ah, good question! I assumed (incorrectly) that you might be using “pretty” permalinks. As you aren’t, your category feeds look like:
    http://www.book-bee.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=15

    Where the last number is the category number. That format will get your a feed in rss 2.0 format.

    More on that and other formats can be found in the codex at: WordPress_Feeds

    Thread Starter allyanders

    (@allyanders)

    18 years ago

    THANKS!

    I tried to use pretty links but for some reason that didn’t work very well. 🙂 Maybe b/c it was in a subdomain at the time? Who knows. 🙂

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    18 years ago

    Using_Permalinks is a good place to start if you decide to go down that road again for “pretty permalinks”. I dunno that it really much matters anymore. Search engines don’t seem to care and the SEO experts don’t seem too concerned either. But hey…

    If you have issues, there’s a good troubleshooting section on that page I linked. And, of course, you can start another new thread here.

    Cheers!

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