Single category feed with Feedburner?

  • I’m trying to create a Feedburner feed for single-category posts on our self-hosted www.ads-software.com blog. I haven’t found any answers to this on the feedburner forums, so I thought I’d try here.

    Alternatively, I’d like to figure out if there’s a way to separate out single-category posts from my original feed. I found suggestions that said i should be able to direct people to “https://www.yourdomain.com/?feed=rss2&cat=X” where X is the category number, but that just goes to my full Feedburner feed.

    There has to be a way to do this…

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  • The easy way to remember this is to click on your Category page, then add the word feed to the end.

    Examples:

    https://www.cybercoder.net/tips/blogging/feed – (Categories renamed to Tips)

    https://www.musicramble.com/category/awards/feed/

    Then go to Feedburner and Burn a New Feed using that URL.

    Thread Starter palproject

    (@palproject)

    Where do you add the word “feed” exactly?

    Do you mean something like https://www.mydomain.com/blog/?cat=3/feed ?

    Feedburner doesn’t recognize that as a feed.

    I saw this post: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/119509?replies=5
    which says that example.com/?cat=1&feed=rss2 generates a feed for a single category — but when I an address like that for a single category on my blog, it directs to the entire feedburner feed.

    Thanks

    I’ve done a lot of digging on this, and I cannot find a way to do category feeds if you are using Feedburner and the Feedsmith plugin. The Feedsmith plugin seems to redirect all feed requests – category, tag, or otherwise – to the main feed.

    If anyone figures it out I’d appreciate a post or something…

    I’ve patched the feedburner plugin so you can specify feeds for each of your categories:

    https://interfacelab.com/feedburner-wp-plugin-fix/

    thanks for the tip cybercoder

    Wouldn’t this work as well?

    https://www.suyogdeshpande.net/blog/2007/11/20/separate-feedburner-feeds-and-categories-feeds-using-htaccess/

    I’d just like to say thanks to CyberCoder for pointing this out.

    I was trying to burn two separate feedburner feeds for two separate categories on my blog. Unfortunately the feeds returned only a summary of each post.

    When I changed the end of the URL to feed, I was able to burn a feed with the full post.

    Thanks!

    The problem isn’t figuring out each Category in WordPress has it’s own rss feed/podcast capability…it’s figuring out how to forward each individual Category feed to an existing Feedburner feed so you can keep on tracking subscribers or pushing Adsense to them through the feed.

    I had two separate podcasts on a paid “podcasting” service to serve the mp3s to my webpage visitors, itunes, and Feedburner feed subscribers.

    The time came to move those recordings to my own server, create my own podcast enable feeds, and eliminate the cost of the service. Easy migration given WordPress Categories each have their own feed…I could create 2 new Categories…fill each up a recording per post…syndicate to itunes and Feedburner without losing any of the subscribers I currently had at both places.

    Problem: How to get the new Category feeds to send posts to the “old” Feedburner feeds so as not to lose any subscribers…and yet not redirect the Feedburner bots when they come in looking for new posts.

    The FeedSmith plugin solves the problem for your WordPress main feed….the https://sample.com/feed/ but what about the individual Category feeds?…the https://sample.com/category/samplecatname/feed/ …how is that going to get redirected to the already established Feedburner feed?

    If you try a straight htaccess 301 redirect…it redirects visitors and bots alike, so the Feedburner feed never gets updated…

    The FeedSmith hack plugin …
    https://interfacelab.com/feedburner-wp-plugin-fix/

    solves the problem…you can select per Category the Feedburner url you want to redirect that Category feed to…the plugin imports all your Category names with a box below to add your Feedburner feed url…simply perfect!

    I just saved $20 a month by discontinuing my podcast service!

    There is no option to add category feeds in version 2.3.1 of the Feedsmith Feedburner plugin. Can the 2.3 patch be added back?

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