Modify feed content

  • I’ve just started to get into writing plugins, and I have an idea for one that involves modifying feed data before it is printed. Currently it works properly with the real posts, but I can’t make it work with feeds. The whole premise of the plugin is to work with FeedBurner, but I can’t even get it to work with the actual wordpress feed (which I believe FB taps into).

    The filter for the post itself is add_filter(‘the_content’, PLUGIN-NAME);
    When I tried add_filter(‘the_content_rss’, PLUGIN-NAME); it doesn’t seem to modify anything.

    Any suggestions?

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  • Is your feed only publishing excerpts, not the content? Do you have other feed plugins active?

    Thread Starter wesg

    (@wesg)

    Turns out that FeedBurner must use a cache system or something. I left it as the_content and now it’s good.

    I have the reverse question. I have a plug-in that shouldn’t be applied to RSS feeds but only to regular queries. I am using add_filter('the_content') currently.

    you could use the is_feed function for that (find documentation here).

    For example:

    function st_myFunc ($content) {
   if ( is_feed() ) return $content;

   // do stuff

   return ($content);
}

    I’m sure there are better ways ?? But that worked for me…

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