Understanding RSS

  • I realize that this likely is a silly question, but it is driving me crazy, so be gentle on me. I own site A, and it has an RSS outbound feed. Site B wants only part of the feed, Site B is only interested in articles that contain the name ‘John Smith’.

    So the question is… Can I set up a situation where I can put John Smith articles into a different stream?

    I am sorry that this seems such a silly question, but I am a writer not a tech guru.

    Simon

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  • WordPress automatically generates different feeds for categories, tags, post/page comments, authors, and searches.

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

    Is John Smith an author, tag, or category, or just a name within the content of your pages/posts?

    Thread Starter zzsimonb

    (@zzsimonb)

    John Smith is not the author, however there is a unique part in the title of each article, and a unique name in the body of the text.

    Mr Smith wants an RSS feed for use in his world, but only articles about Mr Smith. Obviously I do not want to lose my RSS feed to the wide world. So how do I make Mr Smith happy?

    Simon

    The easiest thing to do would be to add a category or tag to each of his posts (“John Smith” for example) then use the feed for that category/tag:

    example.com/category/john-smith/feed
    example.com/tag/john-smith/feed

    If a WordPress search is able to accurately grab all posts with “John Smith” in them, then you could also turn that search into a feed with:

    example.com/?s=john+smith&feed=rss2

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

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