Creating a new page with its OWN RSS feed?

  • I run a wordpress blog as the website for my courses as a high school teacher. the main page, which is the actual blog, is awesome, because I post all my homework and assignments as events calendar events and create posts for them, and by titling assignments by course codes parents and students can screen items for class by subscribing to my RSS feed.

    In addition, I also maintain pages for each course where I post class notes, handouts for download, etc, but these pages are more tedious to organize, and they don’t have an RSS feed so students can view the resources from a date via an RSS subscription. (EX; On the English 12 page, I create a header 2 title “Friday, October 2”, and underneath in paragraph format I list the topics covered and embed any powerpoint slides or video clips I use from slideshare.net or youtube.com/etc.

    What I would LIKE to be able to do have those pages work as a standalone blog with an RSS feed separate from my main page so that each day’s notes/resources become posts sorted newest to oldest with a distinct RSS feed.

    I have two courses, which means I’d ideally like to have the main blog and its RSS feed, and one additional page which would use posts and have their own distinct RSS feed.

    Anyone doing this with success or have an idea about how this can be done? It’s not like my life is terrible because I can’t do it, but it means creating pages and tons of sub pages so there aren’t 30 items and 25 screens worth of viewing per course.

    Thanks for any ideas!

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  • What I would LIKE to be able to do have those pages work as a standalone blog with an RSS feed separate from my main page so that each day’s notes/resources become posts sorted newest to oldest with a distinct RSS feed.

    If you want full blog functionality in each of the ‘subpages’ you could install WP multiple times using a different database prefix. I’m not sure you couldn’t do this with categories and category templates though.

    Also you could check out feedburner.com for possible answers as they helped me set up separate RSS feeds for several blogs.

    Pages do not have feeds and are not part of WordPress feeds. You could instead use posts and categories/tags.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Feeds#Categories_and_Tags

    Thread Starter mrwozney

    (@mrwozney)

    I don’t want to run multiple installs of WP- just to have multiple pages on my site that people can subscribe to instead of just one. Looks like this categories/tags thing has some promise- anyone know whether a page set up to feature posts from a dedicated category comes with its own RSS feed, and if not, can anyone tell me how to set one up?

    The feeds are automatically set up by WordPress. All you have to do is to provide a link for people to the category or tag feed.

    What you need to remember as you organize this is that it is the category that gets the feed, not the page. So if you create a category for each of your classes, each of your classes will have a feed.

    Thread Starter mrwozney

    (@mrwozney)

    So, final question here. I can separate my posts into unique feeds by creating categories for my posts- got that bit.

    What I’m curious to know (b/c I haven’t seen this in action anywhere) is whether or not a category of posts show up on a page by themselves, or if they all show up on the front page.

    Is it possible to have one page that displays JUST the posts from a certain category?

    The feed is nice for people to subscribe to, but if the categorized posts don’t show up on a page where that’s all people see on that page, then categories don’t help me much in terms of visual organization…

    Thanks all- appreciate the knowledge sharing!

    Is it possible to have one page that displays JUST the posts from a certain category?

    It get organized that way automatically. Say you create a category ‘dogs’. Go to (with pretty permalinks) <sitename>/category/dogs and you get a blog-like page with only posts in the ‘dogs’ category. Your actually permalink may be a little different depending on how its set.

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