http://www.bioneural.net bioneural.net is for stuff worth sharing: commentary by Bruce McKenzie. Major topics covered are gadgets, informatics, Internet, Mac, mobile, musings, New Zealand, photography, Project Koru, quicklinks, rant, rave, travel and Windows Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:57:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.bioneural.net/images/kiwi-yellow-64px.png http://www.bioneural.net 64 64 bioneural.net http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:03 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2006/07/20/customizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

This is not as easy as it sounds, especially given that WordPress offers a variety of feed formats and the lead developer attests to its flexibility. After much frustration, a bit of help here and there, and a large dollop of trial-and-error, I finally figured out how to serve both a summary and a full-text feed, and to exclude a single category from one of them. What did work is broke Matt said: ...WordPress has the most comprehensive RSS support of any product I've seen: we produce a regular site feed, a site comments feed, a feed for every category, a comments feed for every post, a feed for every search, a feed for every month, and you can even combine and exclude categories to create a very customized category feed. All in 4+ flavors of RSS and Atom, with RSS 2.0 being the default. Were to start? I started with this post, initially modifying my root index.php file as per the following (where category id=16 is the one I want to exclude from the "9rules" feed type): The 9rules feed generated a WordPress database error; the other two feeds worked correctly! I then reverted to the original index.php file and tried Ben's suggestion (made in a comment on the above page) to use .htaccess. Whereas this worked (showing posts only in category 16): # Test to show bookmarks only RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=16 [R,L] This did not: # Create a feed for 9rules.com excluding bookmarks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=-16 [R,L] So apparently you can't use cat=-(n) anymore; Ben subsequently confirmed ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:03 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2006/07/20/customizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

This is not as easy as it sounds, especially given that WordPress offers a variety of feed formats and the lead developer attests to its flexibility. After much frustration, a bit of help here and there, and a large dollop of trial-and-error, I finally figured out how to serve both a summary and a full-text feed, and to exclude a single category from one of them. What did work is broke Matt said: ...WordPress has the most comprehensive RSS support of any product I've seen: we produce a regular site feed, a site comments feed, a feed for every category, a comments feed for every post, a feed for every search, a feed for every month, and you can even combine and exclude categories to create a very customized category feed. All in 4+ flavors of RSS and Atom, with RSS 2.0 being the default. Were to start? I started with this post, initially modifying my root index.php file as per the following (where category id=16 is the one I want to exclude from the "9rules" feed type): The 9rules feed generated a WordPress database error; the other two feeds worked correctly! I then reverted to the original index.php file and tried Ben's suggestion (made in a comment on the above page) to use .htaccess. Whereas this worked (showing posts only in category 16): # Test to show bookmarks only RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=16 [R,L] This did not: # Create a feed for 9rules.com excluding bookmarks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=-16 [R,L] So apparently you can't use cat=-(n) anymore; Ben subsequently confirmed ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:03 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2006/07/20/customizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

This is not as easy as it sounds, especially given that WordPress offers a variety of feed formats and the lead developer attests to its flexibility. After much frustration, a bit of help here and there, and a large dollop of trial-and-error, I finally figured out how to serve both a summary and a full-text feed, and to exclude a single category from one of them. What did work is broke Matt said: ...WordPress has the most comprehensive RSS support of any product I've seen: we produce a regular site feed, a site comments feed, a feed for every category, a comments feed for every post, a feed for every search, a feed for every month, and you can even combine and exclude categories to create a very customized category feed. All in 4+ flavors of RSS and Atom, with RSS 2.0 being the default. Were to start? I started with this post, initially modifying my root index.php file as per the following (where category id=16 is the one I want to exclude from the "9rules" feed type): The 9rules feed generated a WordPress database error; the other two feeds worked correctly! I then reverted to the original index.php file and tried Ben's suggestion (made in a comment on the above page) to use .htaccess. Whereas this worked (showing posts only in category 16): # Test to show bookmarks only RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=16 [R,L] This did not: # Create a feed for 9rules.com excluding bookmarks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=-16 [R,L] So apparently you can't use cat=-(n) anymore; Ben subsequently confirmed ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:03 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2006/07/20/customizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

This is not as easy as it sounds, especially given that WordPress offers a variety of feed formats and the lead developer attests to its flexibility. After much frustration, a bit of help here and there, and a large dollop of trial-and-error, I finally figured out how to serve both a summary and a full-text feed, and to exclude a single category from one of them. What did work is broke Matt said: ...WordPress has the most comprehensive RSS support of any product I've seen: we produce a regular site feed, a site comments feed, a feed for every category, a comments feed for every post, a feed for every search, a feed for every month, and you can even combine and exclude categories to create a very customized category feed. All in 4+ flavors of RSS and Atom, with RSS 2.0 being the default. Were to start? I started with this post, initially modifying my root index.php file as per the following (where category id=16 is the one I want to exclude from the "9rules" feed type): The 9rules feed generated a WordPress database error; the other two feeds worked correctly! I then reverted to the original index.php file and tried Ben's suggestion (made in a comment on the above page) to use .htaccess. Whereas this worked (showing posts only in category 16): # Test to show bookmarks only RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=16 [R,L] This did not: # Create a feed for 9rules.com excluding bookmarks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=-16 [R,L] So apparently you can't use cat=-(n) anymore; Ben subsequently confirmed ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:03 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2006/07/20/customizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

This is not as easy as it sounds, especially given that WordPress offers a variety of feed formats and the lead developer attests to its flexibility. After much frustration, a bit of help here and there, and a large dollop of trial-and-error, I finally figured out how to serve both a summary and a full-text feed, and to exclude a single category from one of them. What did work is broke Matt said: ...WordPress has the most comprehensive RSS support of any product I've seen: we produce a regular site feed, a site comments feed, a feed for every category, a comments feed for every post, a feed for every search, a feed for every month, and you can even combine and exclude categories to create a very customized category feed. All in 4+ flavors of RSS and Atom, with RSS 2.0 being the default. Were to start? I started with this post, initially modifying my root index.php file as per the following (where category id=16 is the one I want to exclude from the "9rules" feed type): The 9rules feed generated a WordPress database error; the other two feeds worked correctly! I then reverted to the original index.php file and tried Ben's suggestion (made in a comment on the above page) to use .htaccess. Whereas this worked (showing posts only in category 16): # Test to show bookmarks only RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=16 [R,L] This did not: # Create a feed for 9rules.com excluding bookmarks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=-16 [R,L] So apparently you can't use cat=-(n) anymore; Ben subsequently confirmed ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:03 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2006/07/20/customizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

This is not as easy as it sounds, especially given that WordPress offers a variety of feed formats and the lead developer attests to its flexibility. After much frustration, a bit of help here and there, and a large dollop of trial-and-error, I finally figured out how to serve both a summary and a full-text feed, and to exclude a single category from one of them. What did work is broke Matt said: ...WordPress has the most comprehensive RSS support of any product I've seen: we produce a regular site feed, a site comments feed, a feed for every category, a comments feed for every post, a feed for every search, a feed for every month, and you can even combine and exclude categories to create a very customized category feed. All in 4+ flavors of RSS and Atom, with RSS 2.0 being the default. Were to start? I started with this post, initially modifying my root index.php file as per the following (where category id=16 is the one I want to exclude from the "9rules" feed type): The 9rules feed generated a WordPress database error; the other two feeds worked correctly! I then reverted to the original index.php file and tried Ben's suggestion (made in a comment on the above page) to use .htaccess. Whereas this worked (showing posts only in category 16): # Test to show bookmarks only RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=16 [R,L] This did not: # Create a feed for 9rules.com excluding bookmarks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=-16 [R,L] So apparently you can't use cat=-(n) anymore; Ben subsequently confirmed ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:03 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2006/07/20/customizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

This is not as easy as it sounds, especially given that WordPress offers a variety of feed formats and the lead developer attests to its flexibility. After much frustration, a bit of help here and there, and a large dollop of trial-and-error, I finally figured out how to serve both a summary and a full-text feed, and to exclude a single category from one of them. What did work is broke Matt said: ...WordPress has the most comprehensive RSS support of any product I've seen: we produce a regular site feed, a site comments feed, a feed for every category, a comments feed for every post, a feed for every search, a feed for every month, and you can even combine and exclude categories to create a very customized category feed. All in 4+ flavors of RSS and Atom, with RSS 2.0 being the default. Were to start? I started with this post, initially modifying my root index.php file as per the following (where category id=16 is the one I want to exclude from the "9rules" feed type): The 9rules feed generated a WordPress database error; the other two feeds worked correctly! I then reverted to the original index.php file and tried Ben's suggestion (made in a comment on the above page) to use .htaccess. Whereas this worked (showing posts only in category 16): # Test to show bookmarks only RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=16 [R,L] This did not: # Create a feed for 9rules.com excluding bookmarks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=-16 [R,L] So apparently you can't use cat=-(n) anymore; Ben subsequently confirmed ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:03 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2006/07/20/customizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

This is not as easy as it sounds, especially given that WordPress offers a variety of feed formats and the lead developer attests to its flexibility. After much frustration, a bit of help here and there, and a large dollop of trial-and-error, I finally figured out how to serve both a summary and a full-text feed, and to exclude a single category from one of them. What did work is broke Matt said: ...WordPress has the most comprehensive RSS support of any product I've seen: we produce a regular site feed, a site comments feed, a feed for every category, a comments feed for every post, a feed for every search, a feed for every month, and you can even combine and exclude categories to create a very customized category feed. All in 4+ flavors of RSS and Atom, with RSS 2.0 being the default. Were to start? I started with this post, initially modifying my root index.php file as per the following (where category id=16 is the one I want to exclude from the "9rules" feed type): The 9rules feed generated a WordPress database error; the other two feeds worked correctly! I then reverted to the original index.php file and tried Ben's suggestion (made in a comment on the above page) to use .htaccess. Whereas this worked (showing posts only in category 16): # Test to show bookmarks only RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=16 [R,L] This did not: # Create a feed for 9rules.com excluding bookmarks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=-16 [R,L] So apparently you can't use cat=-(n) anymore; Ben subsequently confirmed ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:03 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2006/07/20/customizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

This is not as easy as it sounds, especially given that WordPress offers a variety of feed formats and the lead developer attests to its flexibility. After much frustration, a bit of help here and there, and a large dollop of trial-and-error, I finally figured out how to serve both a summary and a full-text feed, and to exclude a single category from one of them. What did work is broke Matt said: ...WordPress has the most comprehensive RSS support of any product I've seen: we produce a regular site feed, a site comments feed, a feed for every category, a comments feed for every post, a feed for every search, a feed for every month, and you can even combine and exclude categories to create a very customized category feed. All in 4+ flavors of RSS and Atom, with RSS 2.0 being the default. Were to start? I started with this post, initially modifying my root index.php file as per the following (where category id=16 is the one I want to exclude from the "9rules" feed type): The 9rules feed generated a WordPress database error; the other two feeds worked correctly! I then reverted to the original index.php file and tried Ben's suggestion (made in a comment on the above page) to use .htaccess. Whereas this worked (showing posts only in category 16): # Test to show bookmarks only RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=16 [R,L] This did not: # Create a feed for 9rules.com excluding bookmarks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=-16 [R,L] So apparently you can't use cat=-(n) anymore; Ben subsequently confirmed ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:03 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2006/07/20/customizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

This is not as easy as it sounds, especially given that WordPress offers a variety of feed formats and the lead developer attests to its flexibility. After much frustration, a bit of help here and there, and a large dollop of trial-and-error, I finally figured out how to serve both a summary and a full-text feed, and to exclude a single category from one of them. What did work is broke Matt said: ...WordPress has the most comprehensive RSS support of any product I've seen: we produce a regular site feed, a site comments feed, a feed for every category, a comments feed for every post, a feed for every search, a feed for every month, and you can even combine and exclude categories to create a very customized category feed. All in 4+ flavors of RSS and Atom, with RSS 2.0 being the default. Were to start? I started with this post, initially modifying my root index.php file as per the following (where category id=16 is the one I want to exclude from the "9rules" feed type): The 9rules feed generated a WordPress database error; the other two feeds worked correctly! I then reverted to the original index.php file and tried Ben's suggestion (made in a comment on the above page) to use .htaccess. Whereas this worked (showing posts only in category 16): # Test to show bookmarks only RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=16 [R,L] This did not: # Create a feed for 9rules.com excluding bookmarks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=-16 [R,L] So apparently you can't use cat=-(n) anymore; Ben subsequently confirmed ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:03 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/2006/07/20/customizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x/ From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

This is not as easy as it sounds, especially given that WordPress offers a variety of feed formats and the lead developer attests to its flexibility. After much frustration, a bit of help here and there, and a large dollop of trial-and-error, I finally figured out how to serve both a summary and a full-text feed, and to exclude a single category from one of them. What did work is broke Matt said: ...WordPress has the most comprehensive RSS support of any product I've seen: we produce a regular site feed, a site comments feed, a feed for every category, a comments feed for every post, a feed for every search, a feed for every month, and you can even combine and exclude categories to create a very customized category feed. All in 4+ flavors of RSS and Atom, with RSS 2.0 being the default. Were to start? I started with this post, initially modifying my root index.php file as per the following (where category id=16 is the one I want to exclude from the "9rules" feed type): The 9rules feed generated a WordPress database error; the other two feeds worked correctly! I then reverted to the original index.php file and tried Ben's suggestion (made in a comment on the above page) to use .htaccess. Whereas this worked (showing posts only in category 16): # Test to show bookmarks only RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=16 [R,L] This did not: # Create a feed for 9rules.com excluding bookmarks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^9rules/feed/?$ /index.php?&feed=rss2&cat=-16 [R,L] So apparently you can't use cat=-(n) anymore; Ben subsequently confirmed ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2006%2F07%2F20%2Fcustomizing-feeds-in-wordpress-2x%2F&seed_title=Customizing+feeds+in+WordPress+2.x/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/