can RSS feed title reflect the category info?

Hi J.,

I’m trying to find a solution. So far, I’ve arrived to this one:

Modify /wp-rss2.php:

<title><?php bloginfo_rss('name'); ?><?php
if (is_category()) {
foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat) {
$titulo=$cat->cat_name;
$descripcion= $cat->category_description;
$nicename=$cat->category_nicename;
}
}
echo ": "?><?php echo $titulo ?></title>
<link><?php bloginfo_rss('url') ?><?php echo "/". $nicename ?></link>
<description><?php bloginfo_rss("description") ?><?php if (is_category()) echo ": " . $descripcion ?></description>


But still the description doesn’t appear…

…because I forgot to add descriptions to my test categories… the script works;-)

And I discovered (luckily) get_bloginfo_rss() which allows the code to be nicer (or at least less messy;). Add these lines before your <channel> definition:


<?php
if (is_category()) {
     foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat) {
         $titulo = $cat->cat_name;
         $descripcion = $cat->category_description;
         $enlace = get_bloginfo_rss('url') . "/" . $cat->category_nicename . "/";

      } else {
          $titulo = get_bloginfo_rss('name');
          $descripcion = get_bloginfo_rss("description");
          $enlace = get_bloginfo_rss('url');
      }

}
?>

<channel>
<title><?php echo $titulo; ?></title>
<link><?php echo $enlace; ?></link>
<description><?php echo $descripcion; ?></description>
[...]

You can check the result afterwards at: https://validator.w3.org/feed/

Hope it helps.

My excuses, I forgot to add a closing tag. This is the script:


<?php
if (is_category()) {
  foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat) {
    $titulo = $cat->cat_name;
    $descripcion = $cat->category_description;
    $enlace = get_bloginfo_rss('url') . "/" . $cat->category_nicename . "/";
  }
}
else {
  $titulo = get_bloginfo_rss('name');
  $descripcion = get_bloginfo_rss("description");
  $enlace = get_bloginfo_rss('url');
}
?>

<channel>
<title><?php echo $titulo; ?></title>
<link><?php echo $enlace; ?></link>
<description><?php echo $descripcion; ?></description>
[...]

Hope this time is right… the feed link is missing:

$enlace = get_bloginfo_rss(‘url’) . “/” . $cat->category_nicename . “/?feed=rss2”;

hi,

i just added the code on my blog and it works fine (except one issue:)

one of my categorys has a subcategory. the feed of this parent-category is unfortunately named after its sub category (also the hyperlink within the feed: it links to the subcategory)…

$titulo = $cat->cat_name; this field in my database has the correct value
(the name of the cat)

thanks if anybody can help me!