own rss feed does not work

  • Resolved Beta2k

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    12 years, 11 months ago

    i want to use the RSS feed of my wordpress page (it is still under construction, so not online, yet) to display posts of a specific category in the sidebar RSS widget.
    the feed URL is: https://crossroads-festival.org/category/news/feed

    the feed works for 100% since it’s displaying the XML stuff when I enter the feed-url in my browser. BUT when I want to use this feed-url in the sidebar RSS widget it says: “RSS Error: A feed could not be found at https://crossroads-festival.org/category/news/feed”

    i already did some research and the following things did NOT work:
    1) checking the php.ini settings and look if CURL is enabled. it is enabled for me. see my php-info here: https://crossroads-festival.org/wp-content/files/phpinfo.php

    2) i also tried adding a / at the end of the feed url and some other minor url modifications, but without luck.. :/

    can someone help my, why it is NOT working to use the rss-url of my own blog-feed? is this a problem of my hoster?

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  • Never try to pull your own RSS feed into your site. That creates a loop-back which could, in turn, create all kinds of performance issues.

    Thread Starter Beta2k

    (@beta2k)

    hm under which circumstances does this lead to problems?

    i have a NEWS section. but by default, the news posts are not shown on the frontpage, because another info-page is the start-page. at the same time I want the users to be able to see if there were NEWS posted. I realized that by adding the RSS feed in the sidebar. is there any other solution?

    btw: Now I know what my problem was. i still had the “under construction” plugin activated and therefore my site was not available.. when i deactivated this plugin, the rss feeds in the sidebar worked…

    please help me with the question, i asked in this post (see above).

    under which circumstances does this lead to problems?

    Under all circumstances. Think about it…

    is there any other solution?

    Yes – create a secondary custom Loop to pull posts from your News category into your sidebar.
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_posts
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/WP_Query

    Thread Starter Beta2k

    (@beta2k)

    okay. i am aware of these functions because i do display the posts of my news-category already in the main content area. i just dont know how i can do this in a sidebar-widget, since the php-code gets commented when i view the source code after loading my page.

    do i need something special to be able to run php-code in the sidebar widget to get this to work?

    thx already!

    You don’t use a widget. You simply add the new Loop as part of the sidebar’s display in sidebar.php (ie outside of any widget-aware areas).

    Thread Starter Beta2k

    (@beta2k)

    thx ??

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