Change feed URL to static file name?

  • Hi Guys,

    I’ve got a very successful podcast that I’ve been producing for over two years now. We have an rss.xml file we’ve been manually updating and recently we decided to start a news section purely powered by wordpress.

    We have since realized that sweet Jesus, wordpress shouldbe powering EVERYTHING in our site… however our biggest obstacle is our feed for the podcast.

    Our feed is a direct RSS.xml file… and we dont want to lose our thousands of listeners/subscribers if we switch up to the default wordpress rss feed url.

    So my question is, is there a way we can deliver the feed as https://www.mysite.com/rss.xml rather than https://www.mysite.com/?feed=rss2

    I’d really appreciate any input. thanks for your time!

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Use a redirection instead.

    Add this to the top of your .htaccess file:
    Redirect 301 /rss.xml https://www.mysite.com/?feed=rss2

    That will tell clients looking for rss.xml that:
    a) They can find it at the new feed link and
    b) That it will be moving there permanently.

    Virtually all RSS clients understand redirects.

    Thread Starter jmack

    (@jmack)

    nice thank you!

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