Slider Updates Showing in RSS Feed

Hi farah,

Which plugin are you using for the feed? Or is it some default behaviour in WordPress?

If it’s a plugin, are there any options to exclude certain post types from the feed?

Regards,
Tom

Hey Tom,
I’m using feedburner to view my feed and to send out email notifications. No idea if theres a way to remove new slide post type from feedburner! I’m a complete newbie ??

Hi farahmaizar,

I’ve had a quick look at my local installation and meta slider posts don’t show up in my RSS Feed. I’m not sure why they would in yours… maybe your theme is including them somehow.

Because I can’t replicate it, I don’t know if I can fix it, but if you want to try something..

1. Go to Plugins > Editor.
2. Select Meta Slider from the drop down menu on the top right
3. Select ‘ml-slider.php’ from the files listed on the right (it might already be selected)
4. Scroll down to line 305 – you will see this code:

register_post_type('ml-slider', array(
            'query_var' => false,
            'rewrite' => false,
            'public' => true,
            'show_ui' => false,
            'labels' => array(
                'name' => 'Meta Slider'
            )
        ));

5. Change that code to this:

register_post_type('ml-slider', array(
            'query_var' => false,
            'rewrite' => false,
            'public' => true,
            'show_ui' => false,
            'exclude_from_search' => true,
            'labels' => array(
                'name' => 'Meta Slider'
            )
        ));

(Notice I’ve added the ‘exclude_from_search’ bit – that is the only change). Warning, if you’re copying and pasting from here, be extra careful that the single quotes are not converted to curly single quotes. You would be best off manually typing in the “‘exclude_from_search’ => true,” bit!

If you could give that a go and let me know if it works, I’ll update the main plugin. If you’re not comfortable editing files and would like me to make the change for you, please send admin login details through https://www.metaslider.com/support, using ‘WPSupport’ as the purchase ID.

Regards,
Tom

Hello Tom,
Turns out I was accidently adding new slider as opposed to new images within my existing slider-doh! i told you i was a complete newbie ?? Once I deleted the duplicate sliders, the problem resolved itself. Now RSS feed/email notifications is only altered if I add a new slider in entirety which I don’t need to do-I’ll just continue editing my existing slider to update it with new pics. My next question (and I’m only so insistent because I absolutely love what metaslider has done to my site and I want to keep it) is how to resolve my drop down menu being covered by slider…I was using flexslider, also tried nivo slider with the same problem. The slider is directly under the drop down menu so if I hover over recipes for example, the category of recipes is hidden behind the slider. Should I send you my admin login details like you mentioned above?

Hi,

No need for an admin login, I can work out how to fix that from here and send you instructions. Your site is down at the moment (an error in your themes functions.php file), if you could post back here when it’s working again I’ll take a look.

Regards,
Tom