Title: RSS Feed Link for Forums
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# RSS Feed Link for Forums
* Resolved [cpein1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpein1/)
* (@cpein1)
* [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-link-for-forums/)
* I’m trying to create an RSS feed specifically for the Bulletin Board/Forum activity
but am drawing a blank as to what that ‘rss/feed’ url would be.
* Right now all I can figure out is my entire site RSS (example: `http://www.myurl.
org/feed/rss/`) but wouldn’t a forum feed url be more specific?
* Any advice on what a ‘direct link’ for an RSS feed for just the Forums should
be?
* Thanks much!
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-bulletin-board/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-bulletin-board/)
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* Plugin Author [codebycarter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codebycarter/)
* (@codebycarter)
* [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-link-for-forums/#post-3362102)
* Hi,
* I could put together a simple script that when you visit a certain page it will
display an RSS feed of your forums. What data do you want to display in the feed
exactly? Just the latest topics and posts? Since you probably won’t want to have
to manually update the RSS feed yourself. If you want to do that though, you
can easily create an RSS feed and enter the data yourself. There are lots of
free services that can do this such as [http://www.rsspect.com/](http://www.rsspect.com/)
but I’ll assume you want the RSS feed updated automatically.
* The reason for this not working with the plugin is because although all WordPress
pages, posts, etc can be displayed in an RSS feed the plugin is in all one page
and none of the content has been setup to be displayed by any RSS reader.
* Thread Starter [cpein1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpein1/)
* (@cpein1)
* [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-link-for-forums/#post-3362183)
* In general, yes, I’d like for users to have the option of receiving very simple‘
notifications’ (or at least a ‘feed’) of **just** new activity within the forums
themselves, as opposed to the entire site activity (posts & pages, etc.).
* I’ll try the rsspect service first and see how that might work! Thanks so much
for your response!
* Plugin Author [codebycarter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codebycarter/)
* (@codebycarter)
* [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-link-for-forums/#post-3362285)
* Super let me know if you have any luck with rsspect, will still be able to do
this for you regardless. I can make it display the latest topics and/or posts
with a limit or display topics and posts that have yet to be read by the user.
Please let me know which works best.
* Thanks again.
* Thread Starter [cpein1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpein1/)
* (@cpein1)
* [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-link-for-forums/#post-3362410)
* You know, what I think might be most appropriate to add to the BB is the same
feature this WP support forum has, the option to “Notify me of follow-up posts
via email”. Does this feature already exist and maybe I’m overlooking it? The
RSS ‘thing’ all-together is actually a bit more than users would fully appreciate,
and a lot of RSS plugins are conflicting with my User Roles/Permissions plugins.
What would you recommend I do to add the “Notify me of follow-up posts via email”
option? Many thanks!
* Plugin Author [codebycarter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codebycarter/)
* (@codebycarter)
* [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-link-for-forums/#post-3362425)
* Ok, no problem. A few people have requested this as well lately, I definitely
would like to add it but not sure when / how it’s going to be implemented yet.
Have been working on rewriting the plugin in my spare time so that feature requests
such as these can be easily added as extensions either by me or someone else
since it’s difficult to do that at the moment. Will hopefully provide an update
about this soon but please do provide more information if you can such as if
you want posts made after a post you want to receive notifications from to remove
previous notifications? Things like that.
* Thanks again.
* Thread Starter [cpein1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpein1/)
* (@cpein1)
* [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-link-for-forums/#post-3362431)
* Any idea why I would be getting code like this showing up on the front end of
the boards?
* ```
WordPress database error: [Table 'learningcafe.wp_wpbb_topics_unread' doesn't exist]
SELECT read FROM wp_wpbb_topics_unread WHERE author = 1 AND id = 19;
WordPress database error: [Table 'learningcafe.wp_wpbb_topics_unread' doesn't exist]
INSERT INTO wp_wpbb_topics_unread (id,author,read) VALUES ('19','1','1')
```
* Plugin Author [codebycarter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codebycarter/)
* (@codebycarter)
* [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-link-for-forums/#post-3362433)
* (Edited) Please see post below.
* Thanks.
* Plugin Author [codebycarter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codebycarter/)
* (@codebycarter)
* [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-link-for-forums/#post-3362434)
* Yes, it wasn’t able to create that database table for some reason. If you have
access to phpMyAdmin or something similar could you run this SQL query?
* [http://www.pastebin.com/dDLXixkM](http://www.pastebin.com/dDLXixkM)
* If not, please email me (me at codebycarter.com)
* Thanks again.
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