RSS / REST / JSON

  • Resolved jomo

    (@jonathanmoorebcsorg)


    6 years, 7 months ago

    Is there any standard solution for supporting either RSS feed or REST api for Business Directory entries?

    Firstly Feeds / RSS (solved)
    Normally you can simply get an XML representation by adding /feed/ to the end of most WordPress links, like:
    mysite.com/category/subcategory/feed/
    mysite.com/individual-post-link/feed/
    mysite.com/woocommerce-shop/product-category/feed/
    mysite.com/individual-product-link/feed/

    This does not work for business directory entries.
    It is possible however to get a basic listing via:
    mysite.com/feed/?post_type=wpbdp_listing

    However some customization is desirable to add extra information, also
    detail requests for an individual item don’t work since requests of the format:
    mysite.com/feed/?p=postid

    redirect to:
    mysite.com/full-post-url/feed/
    which gives 404 error for posts of type wpbdp_listing

    WordPress Rest API
    Is there any option for accessibility from the WordPress Rest API?
    As a starter:
    mysite.com/wp-json/wp/v2/types/
    does not include wpbdp_listing as an available post type and I didn’t find anything in the documentation sites about this

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  • Plugin Author Business Directory Plugin

    (@businessdirectoryplugin)

    6 years, 7 months ago

    Hi @jonathanmoorebcsorg,

    BD does have an RSS feed built into the directory pages (for the list view and categories). To get the specific URL for your site, go to the category or list view page, click “View Source” from your browser and search on “rss”. You’ll see the embedded URL in there.

    For our main demo directory, it’s:

    https://businessdirectoryplugin.com/feed/ (main directory)
    https://businessdirectoryplugin.com/business-directory/wpbdm-category/food-beverage-companies/feed/ (category specific feed)

    The RSS feed isn’t present on an individual listing, of course.

    We don’t have any external published API, through WP or our own plugin right now. That’s something we can consider for future development, but not something the plugin allows for today.​​​​​​

    I hope that helps.

    Thread Starter jomo

    (@jonathanmoorebcsorg)

    6 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks. Though the RSS listing in the directory page simply points to the main RSS for the site which only includes posts of type Post. To get the business directory listings you need to add the post type parameter: ?post_type=wpbdp_listing

    This is also true of your links:
    https://businessdirectoryplugin.com/business-directory/wpbdm-category/food-beverage-companies/feed/
    does not include a list of the companies in this category only some info about the category.
    https://businessdirectoryplugin.com/feed/
    does not include directory entries, only posts, unless I missed something

    To get the business directory listings you need to add the post type parameter:
    https://businessdirectoryplugin.com/feed/?post_type=wpbdp_listing
    this does list the directory entries but this link is not specified in the rss link in the html source.

    It doesn’t work on a category though, this just shows category info, no listings.
    https://businessdirectoryplugin.com/business-directory/wpbdm-category/food-beverage-companies/feed/?post_type=wpbdp_listing

    Nor on an individual listing:
    >The RSS feed isn’t present on an individual listing, of course.
    Actually individual Posts normally do have a feed on an individual listing (and a comments feed) and this applies to custom post types such as WooCommerce Products so I just assumed it would.

    There is a third possibility, the xml sitemaps provided by Yoast, this will list as /wpbdp_listing-sitemap.xml and there is also /wpbdp_category-sitemap.xml for list of categories (but not the entries within the categories).

    I was looking into the possibility of including data into a react native mobile app – any feed data is ok to get something started and there are already 2 (/feed/?post_type=wpbdp_listing and /wpbdp_listing-sitemap.xml), so that’s ok.

    Longer term enabling the rest api would be better. I assumed it should not be too hard to include a custom post type in the standard WordPress rest api though I haven’t had a change to confirm this yet.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by jomo.
    Plugin Author Business Directory Plugin

    (@businessdirectoryplugin)

    6 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Jon,

    We’ll address this for our next major release (5.0). Thanks for noting it.

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