WordPress RSS Feed and Flipboard

  • Hi all, looking for guidance be it specific code or best practice opinion if possible. I’m looking at the possibility of submitting my WordPress RSS Feed to Flipboard to set up a magazine. They have a list of requirements at https://flipboard.com/rss/ and there are a few I’d appreciate help / opinion on:

    The feed needs all of the following:

    1) The entire body copy of your article, not just headlines and summaries.
    2) At least one image per article, no less than 400px in width.
    3) At least 30 items.
    4) Updates pushed via PubSubHubbub (preferably via Superfeedr).

    1 and 3 can be adjusted in settings > reading – but does 30 seem a lot for most feeds especially as it is the only feed I use? Are other users likely to have issues with this and does switching to entire body also mean the whole post will be sent to email subscribers rather than just the summary?

    2 is a content issue no problem.

    4 I have found a plugin so sorted.

    The other requirement I notice and the one that I have no clue how to overcome is ‘When updating the contents of an item, be sure to update the <pubDate> of that item. This is used as a signal indicating that an existing item has changed.’ I don’t believe the pubDate of the item in RSS is updated when the post is edited. Is there a way to do this. I guess I may also need to change some theme templates from ‘published’ to ‘last updated’ unless the RSS pubDate can be independent of the original published date.

    Sorry I know there’s a lot there but interested in views and not sure whether anyone has been through this process before.

    I was toying with the idea of setting up a unique RSS feed for this but that is a step too far for me I think.

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  • Thread Starter Paul Skip Brown

    (@paul-skip-brown)

    I’m not sure I have the answers but I ended up finding a tutorial and creating a bespoke RSS feed. Still can’t find any guidance about what to do re pubDate though if I update an article. I know posting date can be changed manually in the post editor but would just a small time change trigger an RSS update I wonder. I don’t think so but I can’t find a definitive answer.

    You ever get this sorted? I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a plugin or at least a sample RSS template floating around for this…

    Thread Starter Paul Skip Brown

    (@paul-skip-brown)

    Hi Nick, I have an RSS feed that works with Flipboard – I created my own template in the end. There are a couple of premium plugins but I couldn’t get them working properly. You can see my Flipboard mag at https://flip-skip.com – just a vanity URL that redirects to my mag. Open in browser then redirect select to open in app – easiest way to see it. Articles are manually flipped by me when created.

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