RSS is one of the core feature of WordPress and every other blogging platform. It is very usefubecause your readers keep track of your blog updates mostly by using RSS. In this article, we will show you some of the most useful RSS hacks, tips, tricks, and snippets for WordPress.
1. RSS Only Posts
There are times when people cannot afford to have a newsletter service like Aweber, but they still want to reward their subscribers. They still want to keep an incentive for subscribers, so your count keeps growing. This trick will help you create posts that is only shown to your RSS readers.
You can achieve this by downloading the plugin called Advanced Category Excluder. Once installed, you should designate a specific category where you will post your RSS only posts. You can even name the category “RSS Only”. Then you need to go to the ACE Settings in your WP-Admin Panel and click on the feature Categories. Check in all boxes like Home, Archives for “RSS Only” Category, and leave the RSS Posts blank. This means that you have excluded RSS Only from being displayed in your home page, archives, and other places except for the RSS Feeds.
This is almost like a newsletter sent to just your RSS email subscribers and feed subscribers.
2. Control When Your Posts are Available Via RSS
There are times when you publish a post and suddenly find an error. You can go back in the admin panel and change it, but it is already published in the feeds. With this hack, you can put a delay of as many minutes as you like, so you can double check the post live.
3. Insert Ads in Your RSS Feeds
Making money is the concept that everyone likes, but monetizing gets hard at times. This is just another way you can monetize by inserting ads in your RSS Feeds. Feedburner does it for you, but it is only Adsense Ads, and there is a subscriber count limit. This short snippet will help you insert ads, or anything else for that matters in your RSS Feeds.
4. Display Any RSS Feed on Your Blog
There are often times when bloggers want to display RSS Feeds of other sites on their blog. Maybe it is from another blog of theirs that is related. This is when this hack comes handy because it makes your job much easier. There are several scripts and plugins that will do it for you, but you don’t need those because WordPress has this feature built in. And you should know that because you see the feeds in your Admin Panel Dashboard.
5. Exclude a Specific Category from RSS Feeds
There are certain categories that contain maybe link love and others which most of your users are not interested in. This is the option to satisfy those users. You can exclude a specific category by using a plugin called Advanced Category Excluder.
6. Make a Separate RSS Feed for Each Category
Often times bloggers wonder how to make separate RSS feed for their category. Because sometimes your user only visits your website for the design category, but you have ten other categories that the user is not interested in. This hack will take care of this issue.
7. List RSS Feeds by Each Category
Last hack shows you how you can have a separate RSS Feed. This snippet will let you list your category feeds by each category.
8. Redirect WordPress Feeds to FeedBurner feeds.
We all want to have the most accurate subscriber count for our blogs. Feedburner provides us with a count of how many users have subscribed to the blog via feedburner feeds. Now WordPress by default has its own feeds to, so if someone types in yourdomain.com/feed then they should be sent to the WordPress version of the feed, and they can subscribe to that. But they will not be counted.
9. Disable RSS Feeds in WordPress
Do you want to use WordPress strictly as a static website. Then it might make sense that you disable your RSS Feeds. You can go to the wp-settings.php and remove one code but that will be stupid because it is a core file.
1. RSS Only Posts
There are times when people cannot afford to have a newsletter service like Aweber, but they still want to reward their subscribers. They still want to keep an incentive for subscribers, so your count keeps growing. This trick will help you create posts that is only shown to your RSS readers.
You can achieve this by downloading the plugin called Advanced Category Excluder. Once installed, you should designate a specific category where you will post your RSS only posts. You can even name the category “RSS Only”. Then you need to go to the ACE Settings in your WP-Admin Panel and click on the feature Categories. Check in all boxes like Home, Archives for “RSS Only” Category, and leave the RSS Posts blank. This means that you have excluded RSS Only from being displayed in your home page, archives, and other places except for the RSS Feeds.
This is almost like a newsletter sent to just your RSS email subscribers and feed subscribers.
2. Control When Your Posts are Available Via RSS
There are times when you publish a post and suddenly find an error. You can go back in the admin panel and change it, but it is already published in the feeds. With this hack, you can put a delay of as many minutes as you like, so you can double check the post live.
3. Insert Ads in Your RSS Feeds
Making money is the concept that everyone likes, but monetizing gets hard at times. This is just another way you can monetize by inserting ads in your RSS Feeds. Feedburner does it for you, but it is only Adsense Ads, and there is a subscriber count limit. This short snippet will help you insert ads, or anything else for that matters in your RSS Feeds.
4. Display Any RSS Feed on Your Blog
There are often times when bloggers want to display RSS Feeds of other sites on their blog. Maybe it is from another blog of theirs that is related. This is when this hack comes handy because it makes your job much easier. There are several scripts and plugins that will do it for you, but you don’t need those because WordPress has this feature built in. And you should know that because you see the feeds in your Admin Panel Dashboard.
5. Exclude a Specific Category from RSS Feeds
There are certain categories that contain maybe link love and others which most of your users are not interested in. This is the option to satisfy those users. You can exclude a specific category by using a plugin called Advanced Category Excluder.
6. Make a Separate RSS Feed for Each Category
Often times bloggers wonder how to make separate RSS feed for their category. Because sometimes your user only visits your website for the design category, but you have ten other categories that the user is not interested in. This hack will take care of this issue.
7. List RSS Feeds by Each Category
Last hack shows you how you can have a separate RSS Feed. This snippet will let you list your category feeds by each category.
8. Redirect WordPress Feeds to FeedBurner feeds.
We all want to have the most accurate subscriber count for our blogs. Feedburner provides us with a count of how many users have subscribed to the blog via feedburner feeds. Now WordPress by default has its own feeds to, so if someone types in yourdomain.com/feed then they should be sent to the WordPress version of the feed, and they can subscribe to that. But they will not be counted.
9. Disable RSS Feeds in WordPress
Do you want to use WordPress strictly as a static website. Then it might make sense that you disable your RSS Feeds. You can go to the wp-settings.php and remove one code but that will be stupid because it is a core file.
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