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👓 Customizing WordPress Feeds | Digging Into WordPress
WordPress feeds enable your visitors to subscribe to your content for use in their favorite feed-reader. For example, subscribing to the main-posts feed and/or the comments feed is a great way for your readers to stay current with all the latest news and content from your website.
With WordPress, you can deliver a wide variety of "Full-text" or "Summary" (partial) feeds in numerous formats, including Atom, RDF, and RSS2. This variety extends the reach of your content by enabling your feeds to be read in more apps, readers, and devices.
As awesome as the default feeds may be, they are also readily customizable using a variety of methods. In addition to WP's built-in ways of configuring your feeds, you can go even further with custom templates, functions, and plugins. In this DigWP post, you'll learn everything you need to customize your feeds with bonus content, recent posts, social media, and much more.
👓 Automatic Feed Links | WordPress Codex
Automatic Feed Links is a theme feature introduced with Version 3.0. This feature adds RSS feed links to HTML <head>.
👓 Just do it — by hand | Jeremy Cherfas
So when I do syndicate out to a silo, I do it by hand. Sure it would be tedious if I wanted to do that for every little thing, but I don't. I share the things I want to share, in the way I want to share them.
I’ve noticed that I typically syndicate almost everything manually despite the fact that I’ve got the ability to do it automatically. Doing it manually actually gives me a greater feeling of ownership somehow.
I do miss the ability to have public comments coming back however…
👓 The death of a TLD | blog.benjojo.co.uk
Another one bites the dust. The gTLD gold rush is now seeing a steady flow of TLD’s that clearly just didnt work out. In the last week, ICANN removed the documentation for .xperia a TLD owned by Sony for their smartphone brand.
👓 RSS is undead | TechCrunch
RSS died. Whether you blame Feedburner, or Google Reader, or Digg Reader last month, or any number of other product failures over the years, the humble protocol has managed to keep on trudging along despite all evidence that it is dead, dead, dead. Now, with Facebook’s scandal over Cambridge Analyt…
👓 How to create custom RSS feeds with WordPress | Raphael Hertzog
Wordpress has many alternate built-in feeds: per category, per tag, per author, per search-keyword. But in some cases, you want feeds built with some more advanced logic. Let's look at the available options.
👓 How to Customize the RSS Feed on Your WordPress site | First Site Guide
Although WordPress creates an RSS feed for your blog automatically, that doesn't mean you can't customize it. Learn more about it and modify RSS to your needs.
👓 Easy Custom Feeds in WordPress | Digging Into WordPress
Now that we have seen how to setup Tumblr-style posts, it would be nice to be able to segregate the Tumblr-posts category from the main feed into its own, separate feed. This would enable readers to subscribe exclusively to the Tumblr-posts feed and maybe display it in their sidebar or something.
While we’re at it, it would also be cool to be able to provide readers with a full menu of feed choices:
Everything feed: includes both the main posts and the Tumblr posts
Articles-only feed: includes only the main articles and no Tumblr stuff
Tumblr-only feed: includes only the Tumblr-style posts
Let's look at an overview of the process..
👓 How to Deliver Separate WordPress Category RSS Feeds | GreenGeeks
Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, is a common method for content marketing. Feeds are used to share your content with RSS readers of all kinds. For example, users can connect a WordPress custom RSS feed directly to their Netvibes accounts for the latest news. But what if you have categories...
👓 Why Decentralized Search is Good, Especially for Blogs | Brad Enslen
Brad Enslen (Brad Enslen)In a previous conversation, I made a rough list of types of blog search directories and search engines. Blog Discovery: I’m sure directories are not the best solution for blog discovery, but like blogrolls they have a place at the table because they are low tech and cheap. Here’s a rough hiera...
👓 American white people really hate being called "white people" | Vox
A Twitter poll drama, explained.
👓 Paving the cowpaths: using architecture concepts to improve online user experience | Elezea
Rian Van Der Merwe (Elezea)In architecture desire lines or cowpaths describe well-worn paths that appear in a landscape over time. I discuss how this relates to web design.
This is interesting/relevant to the idea of “manual until it hurts”. I particularly like the twist idea at the end of looking at activity after-the-fact and then paving over those methods rather than starting at free range and then paving.
👓 Announcement: The Future of Blog Snoop | Blog Snoop Weblog Directory
I’m hitting a fork in the road with this site and the experiment of using a blog as a directory of blogs. The problem here is me: I’m running out of time. I’m duplicating a lot …
👓 The Future of Blog Snoop | Kicks Condor
Kicks Condor (kickscondor.com)I think the idea behind Blog Snoop is solid—I mean you’re just talking about trying to define the edges of a certain community. I’m sufficiently convinced now (between Reddit wikis and ‘awesome lists’) that directories still serve this purpose. Find The Others. I guess part of the problem ...
Response to Brad and Kicks forthcoming…