Comments on: Creating Custom Feeds For Sites Without Feeds http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Sat, 18 May 2013 11:52:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kate http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-921805 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:14:10 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-921805 Thanks! I was able to grab news from a site without a feed in 5 minutes thanks to your tip

]]> By: Odds and Ends: 27 February 07 at All the Rest… http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-189320 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:54:51 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-189320 [...] 17 March Update: Creating Custom Feeds for Sites Without Feeds [...]

]]> By: Raul http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-178881 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:32:36 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-178881 I use http://www.feedity.com which is a really simple and great tool

]]> By: Ed http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-157929 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:09:22 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-157929 I ran across a web based tool called PonyFish (RSS Feed Builder)—seems to be generating quite a buzz as a solution for sites without feeds:
http://www.ponyfish.com/

]]> By: Kyle http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-156778 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:47:32 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-156778 Thanks for the post Lorelle. I’m sure this will be quite handy for something.

Basu715,
Is this what you are after? feed replacement plugin

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-155686 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:00:51 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-155686 This is a WordPress.com blog and I’m limited to the same limitations everyone else is. The tags and signature are created manually for every post. See A Technorati Tag Bookmarklet for WordPress and WordPress.com Users for specifics.

As for your feeds, I’m not sure where you went wrong, but any category can have its own individual feeds, and that’s what I assume you want. I gather you have your podcasts in their own “podcast” category or some such similar. So put your blog posts in a different category and offer that feed to your users.

See Customizing RSS Feed Links for WordPress and WordPress.com Blogs for details on creating category feeds.

]]> By: Tom http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-155622 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:35:26 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-155622 I recently wanted to add a separate blog feed to my podcast site, but couldn’t figure out how to do it exclusive of the podcast feed.

When I set up my podcast site, I used Feedburner. Every category was routed through the Feedburner feed. I wanted to add another feed that would just contain blog posts. Since I blog daily, I didn’t want to blast everyone who was subscribed to the podcast. I wanted my blog feed to be separate from my podcast feed.

However, I could not figure out how to exclude the blog feed from the Feedburner podcast feed. I tried using the Category Visibility plugin, but it wouldn’t let me subscribe to anything excluded from the podcast feed. The user forums were also not helpful. Any category-specific feeds are automatically included in the site feed. Do you know how to do this?

On another note, I’m curious about something on your site. Is your site a WordPress.com site or a custom installation on your own web host (wordpress.org)? It seems like you have some customizations (e.g., related articles, tag warrior, custom signature) that I wasn’t aware were available from the WordPress.com version.

]]> By: Mythophile http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-155274 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:42:05 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-155274 More importantly, why aren’t there more georss feeds? You’d think every weather and geological site with info that needs constant updating would be jumping all over georss. How am I supposed to get data to make a cool Yahoo map.

]]> By: frustrated reader http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-155197 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:28:04 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-155197 But will those RSS workarounds give you full content RSS feeds? There’s nothing more annoying, and this blog falls into the annoying category, of partial/abstract RSS feeds that still require you to spawn multiple windows and tabs in a browser to see the content.

How does one get a full RSS feed using those tools. Now that would be an awesome “fix”!

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-153028 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:48:25 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/creating-custom-feeds-for-sites-without-feeds/#comment-153028 You can’t “block” or stop or change your WordPress.com feed to replace it with a Feedburner feed, but you can add one. I have one in my sidebar. Just add the link to your Feedburner feed to your Blogroll. Very simple.

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