August 5, 2009
I've heard from a few people new to WordPress that they're having trouble finding where to activate their WordPress RSS feed. This is a great problem because it has a very simple solution: You don't need to activate your RSS feed in WordPress. Find the feed for your blog posts by adding /feed to your main blog URL - and this will work for your wordpress.com blog too. More about RSS... Read more
July 27, 2009
Often you'll want to exclude a particular category from your blog's RSS feed - whether it's an archive of your Twitter posts, or a category you're using for some kind of housekeeping. It's easy to do - just edit the category number in this code, and add it to your theme's functions.php file. function feed_the_cat($query) { if ($query->is_feed) { $query->set('cat','-1'); //change... Read more
May 2, 2009
WordPress doesn't just publish the all-posts feed: in fact, it automatically publishes feeds to just about everything on your blog. Below are a few examples; I've included both the URL and the code to automatically generate the relevent link; after all, the feed's no use if your readers can't find it. URLs given assume you've set up pretty permalinks in Settings > Reading. Edit the bits in... Read more