joefletcher
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Anyone have any ideas on this one?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to Get a Custom Field (URL) into an RSS FeedKaf, you’re a genius! I just installed it, and it’s working like a charm.
I can’t even tell you how much time this will save me. I don’t plan to support anything but RSS2… since I’ll probably feed it into FeedBurner to take care of the other formats.
You should put this plug-in on your site… I’m sure others will want the option to do it… frankly, I can’t believe I couldn’t find a pre-existing solution.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to Get a Custom Field (URL) into an RSS FeedHi Kafkaesqui, thanks once again for your detailed attention to this. And I can tell I am priviledged to be talking to a real expert in this area. I’m just a newbie trying to do something advanced.
Actually, I don’t want the ArticleLink to show up in RSS readers, but I want to have it available for other uses. In RSS readers, I want them to click on the blog post’s link to go to my blog. From there, they can read the description and click on the ArticleLink (which I’ve gotten to show up beneath my blog posts through a WP plugin I found). But I still need the ArticleLink because I will post that on my web site (which is separate from my blog) so that they can read the description and then click on the ArticleLink to go directly to the article.
I’m thinking that replacing the <guid>’s value with the ArticleLink value can work. (For example, from <guid>http://website.com/articles/?p=10</guid> to <guid>http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/97/brand-spirit.html</guid>). RSS readers will read the <link> as they normally do, and it will take them to the blog post. The <guid> will be not be displayed by the readers (right?). On my web site, I grab from the RSS feed the <description> and the <guid> (which has been transformed to the ArticleLink) and display those on the site. Does that make sense? And if so, do you know how to transform the guid?
If the transforming the <guid> doesn’t work, I’ve also read about extending RSS using Modules and Namespaces… something like blogChannel:blink, except I think that particular one is for Channels and not Items. Is there an item module that would work (and not cause an error in readers)?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to Get a Custom Field (URL) into an RSS FeedThanks for your advice and offer to help on this. Ideally, I’d like a new element to be created called ArticleLink (or whatever else). Since I don’t much about RSS specifications, I don’t know if that would help or not if it’s not in line with the specifications. But I would ideally like is to have a feed that has the item’s link, content, and a dedicated ArticleLink. I would then grab all of those and present them in my web site and also in email responders (I’m going to try this with PHPlist). I’d be fine with the ArticleLink appearing any where in the feed.
If that’s not possible or practical, then I guess I would settle for having it appended to the post content like you mention. But, would that get it to appear in the RSS feed as a separate element? Right now, I can get it to appear in my posts by sticking the custom field into the php code, but that doesn’t get it into the RSS feed. I’m thinking your suggestion would get it into the content element, but not separately?
Having the article’s URL replace the <link> element would work if I still had access to the blog post link in some way through the RSS feed… maybe the <guid> would work for that? Is there a PermaLink that can be generated in the RSS feed? And would that modification not affect the blog site… just the RSS feed? (meaning, then my blog would still function the way it does now with permalinks and all that.)
Thanks again!!!