Often times bloggers wonder how to make separate RSS feed for their category. Because sometimes your user only visits your website for the design category, but you have ten other categories that the user is not interested in. How can you offer them a separate RSS Feed. In this tutorial, we will show you how you can do that.
Technically you don’t have to do anything.
Lets say you like WPBeginner’s Showcase Category and want to subscribe to it. The category URL is:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/category/showcase/
You simply need to add the word feed infront of it like this
http://www.wpbeginner.com/category/showcase/feed/
So if you let your users know that, then you can give them an opportunity to subscribe to it. You can specifically ask your designers to add this in the theme when users open category pages, they can subscribe to the category itself.
Now there is another code that will help you letting your users subscribe to separate RSS by letting them know they can. You can’t manually email your readers and ask them to do this. Instead what you can do is use this code:
<?php wp_list_categories('feed_image=http://www.wpbeginner.com/image.gif&feed=XML Feed&optioncount=1&children=0'); ?>
Now you must change the url to the feedimage because it will display an RSS Icon next to your category list. You can paste this code in your sidebar where you have the category code.
Now you can have separate RSS feed for each category in WordPress.
i just want to do like yours (as your side bar suscribe section) i will be glad if you explain me because i couldn’t undertand :S
You would have to use the technique mentioned in this article:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-a-daily-and-weekly-email-newsletter-in-wordpress/
When I add “feed” to the end of the url of the category I want a feed for (http://www.wpbeginner.com/category/showcase/feed/), it just takes me to the full feed of my entire blog with all posts rather than just those in the category I specified. Is there a setting I need to change that you can help me with?
We are redirecting all feeds to our main feeds. But on normal sites, that feature should work fine.
Excelente, y yo buscando plugins para algo que wordpress hace por defecto. Thanks
Thank You for this tip!
I’m actually looking for a way to add cat feeds to header for autodiscovery… must be a plugin for that?!
Hello. I was really interested by this but I was wondering where this went? On my blog I have the categories section in the sidebar, on my friends blog which I set up the categories menu is a dropdown at the top and putting a categories in the sidebar looks un-neat. I was wondering if there was a way to display a link saying ‘Subscribe to RSS’ leading to something like http://rmagic.yui-dev.co.cc/uncategorized/feed/ which would then lead to feedburner. Is it possible? Thank you for all your great tutorials, I have used many of them on my blogs and they are running perfectly well!
There is not a plugin for redirecting the category feeds to feedburner category feeds, but there is a method that lists categories and each category feed. Check it out here.
Thats very handy to know, will be useful on an upcoming project I have. Thanks.