RSS "Feed" causing page naming issues

  • Resolved Robodashy

    (@robodashy)


    9 years, 3 months ago

    Hi all.

    Setting up a livestock website for a client, and funnily enough one of their page names is “Feed”. The URL should look a little like this “/products/feed/”. Good old RSS wants this to be the actual xml feed, even though I’ve disabled RSS and there is no freaking .xml at the end of this file – so the actual URL looks like this “/products/feed-2/”.

    That’s not what I want WordPress, why do you think you know better than me?

    In other words, anyone have any ideas as to how I would go about fixing this (it’s kind of annoying).

    Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    To be totally honest, I recommend choosing a different slug for the page.

    The /feed/ convention has been built into WordPress for years: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Feeds

    /products/feed/ is essentially the comments feed of the Products page.

    You could hack the core files to stop that, but we don’t support that here, and you’ll lose the customizations during the next update.

    You can still title the page Feed, but give it a slug like “livestockfeed” so the URL would be /products/livestockfeed/

    In the Page editor, you’ll see “Permalink” below the title. Click there to edit the slug.

    Thread Starter Robodashy

    (@robodashy)

    Thanks James, I thought that would be the case.

    Yeah I was going to avoid modifying the core files, but was hoping for an “easy” fix or work around. The problem is that the feed category has several sub-categories (livestock feed being one of them) so there’s no real other way to globalise “feed”. I’ll have a think about alternative naming conventions and see what I can come up with.

    Thanks again for your assistance ??

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    How about “animalfeed”?

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