Nice name for Feed for all categories except one?

In each file for the feeds you’re supporting (wp-rss.php, wp-rss2.php, wp-rdf-php and wp-atom.php), locate at the top where wp-blog-header.php is included:

require('wp-blog-header.php');

Right before that line, insert these two:

if(!(isset($_GET['category_name'])) && ('links' == $_GET['category_name']))
$cat=-4;

This will allow you to use your syndication urls as you normally do, but exclude the “link” category from the feed unless specifically linked to.

So doing that I can use the link mentioned above?

That’s cool. I’m not keen on modifying the source code (not because i can’t but because it makes upgrading awkward). I think I am going to see if a plugin is possible before I do this. I was intending to have a go at writing plugins anyway so this could be interesting ??

Actually reading through that again the category will never be set to -4. You’re checking that the category isn’t set and the links = the category name. Neither will be true at the same time though…?

The logic of the code (if I had written it down correctly the first time; the line above will probably cause an error):

If the following is *not* true: ‘category_name’ is a query and ‘links’ is the value of category_name -> make $cat equal -4. So if there’s no category_name query, or if there is but it equals something other than ‘links’, the statement will be true.

Here’s a corrected version of my hasty coding above:

if(!(isset($_GET['category_name']) && 'links' == isset($_GET['category_name'])))

Ah – That makes more sense.

Thanks