Your WordPress RSS Feeds
Your WordPress RSS Feeds
RSS - really simple syndication, Rich Site Summary; No mater what it’s called it really is just an XML-based system for aggregating and rapidly scanning information from blogs, news and current event web sites, and other web sites that update content frequently.
So okay, if a site offers an RSS feed it means that you can get updates from a web site without a visit. Your user can enjoy your content by making use of RSS aggregating such as BlogLines, Netvibes ,and Google Reader just to mention a few.
But now you’re saying “David, Why would I want my content on another site?” At first I might think this is a bad thing to have, and yes it can be depending upon how it’s used but the benefits far out way the evil that could be done with it.
For the user it comes down to one factor; convenience. In today’s society we have become we find ourselves overloaded with information. Having a way to organize all that incoming data we want into one places save time.
WordPress RSS Feeds, Yes that’s plural
Most users of WordPress do not realize that WordPress offers more that 2 feeds; the main feed and the comment feed. In fact your site could have hundreds of feeds.
Each category has a feed, for example, if a user was only interested in my topics about blogging he could subscribe to just that category like so: http://myblogit.net/category/wp-templates/feed/
Say for example, you only wanted to subscribe to post with the tag WordPress, you could do this by using http://myblogit.net/tag/WordPress/feed/
So why not explore all your RSS feeds, simply put ‘feed/’ behind any url on your site that ends with a forwardslash ‘/’
WOW - I did not even know you can have a feed for each tags or each category!
BTW found on BlogFriends
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Great post. I don’t use wordpress on my blog, but I still created RSS feeds for it. I was thinking of doing RSS feeds per category, but it felt like over kill. However, I may still do it. It wouldn’t be too hard.
I’ve know this for a while now, however I didn’t know very few others didn’t know about it until today…
Problem with subscribing to comment feeds is that they are for individual posts. The post for which you subscribe may not get comments, while others may.
You can subscribe to all comments on a WordPress blog with the main comment feed: http://myblogit.net/comments/feed/ or to just that comments on a single post like this one: http://myblogit.net/2007/10/05/171/feed/
Thanks for this post! I had been neglecting to make use of this versatile RSS capability! Your clear explanation was very helpful!