Everyone is utilizing Custom Post Types in their new WordPress sites because this is a very powerful feature. One of our users asked us how can they create a separate RSS feed for a specific custom post type in WordPress. In this article, we will be answering that question.
You would think that it require a lot of coding, but it doesn’t. It works just like creating a separate RSS feed for each category in WordPress. You can simply type this URL:
http://www.yoursite.com/feed/?post_type=book
Just change the post_type name to the one that you want to create a separate RSS feed for. Are you looking to take it to the next level and make it for a specific custom post type and custom taxonomy? Well that is not hard at all either:
http://www.yoursite.com/feed/?post_type=book&genre=romance
As you can see in the code above, that genre would be the custom taxonomy, and romance would be the tag if you may call it that. You can create a button in your sidebar to link to that. You may also link this feed and create a separate feedburner feed for it.
Hey, and do you know any rss wordpress plugin for visitors ? As big new companies have own RSS creator to put rss on some freelancer sites, I want to it same, but not with post but with custom post types….do you know some RSS plugin ?
It still doesn’t work for me – I’m trying to display an RSS Feed for the content on this page –
and displays the RSS feed for all of my posts. Any thoughts?
Hi Tori,
Pages are not included in an RSS feed. The URL you are using would work if you had a custom post type with that particular name.
Thank you for the response. I’m sorry for the confusion as it looks like my links didn’t appear. The posts that appear on that page are custom posts (it’s like the blog roll but for custom posts), but the method to do the RSS feed didn’t work for me. Any thoughts or suggestions?
Hey Tori,
If you are certain that the posts belong to a custom post type, then you need to find out the name used by the custom post type. You can do that by clicking on the custom post type menu item in your WordPress admin sidebar. Clicking on it will take you to an admin page listing all the posts in that post type. Now if you look into the browser address bar you will see something like this:
http://www.example.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=your_post_typeThe part that appears after the post_type= is your custom post type name. Now you need to use this to reach the RSS feed URL for that custom post type.
http://www.example.com/feed/?post_type=your_post_typeHope this helps.
Thank you for the response. When I do that, I see this error message — any thoughts?
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This page contains the following errors:
error on line 2 at column 1: Extra content at the end of the document
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
Hey Tori,
Please see our guide on how to fix RSS feed Errors.
Hi and thanks for this !
I would like to add custom fields for my custom post type feed (not for the regular posts, only for my custom post type).
How could I do that ?
Thanks a lot !
Great tip! I almost made it from scratch! thank you!
Thank you a lot! your website helped me so much
I’ve gotten this to work but it limits the posts in the rss feed to 10 when I feedburn it. Is there any way to create a full rss feed for custom post types without limiting the quantity of posts it pulls in?
Main feed normally displays the most recent posts. If a user tries to pull your feed using their feed reader, it will pull all older posts as well.
Hi there. Could you tell me how to create a feed for all post types, so someone can signup to a single RSS feed for all posts on the site, regardless of which post type they are in?
You can combine custom post types in your main RSS feed.
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-custom-post-types-to-your-main-wordpress-rss-feed/
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, i was looking for this info for 2 hours. Glad i found your info. Fu…. taxonomy, where were you?!! aahhh!
Work so fine now
Thanks! This is simple and a nice tip I didn’t know.
it works for me and I love you for it. I created a link to each pos type I’ve got, but in the RSS reader they are all called the same, any way I can affect the title of the feed to reflect the post type?
If I am using a slug re-write for the taxonomy that wouldn’t make a difference and be causing the problem would it? I’ve tried both ways and it doesn’t work either way, with the actual registered taxonomy title or the slug.
No plugins. But I haven’t been able to figure out how to url my taxonomies with my custom post types like…
http://www.mysite.com/custompost/taxonomy/taxonmyterm
It’s just…
http://www.mysite.com/taxonomy/taxonomyterm
Would this have an effect?
That doesn’t seem to work with the taxonomies.
In our example if you notice, the genre is a taxonomy and it should work.
Yeah, I replaced that with my own taxonomy followed by an equal sign and then one of my taxonomy terms, but it still just displayed the custom post type’s feed.
It actually redirects back to the content post type’s feed url.
Are you using any plugin to redirect this? Because this should not be happening…
No plugins. But I haven’t been able to figure out how to url my taxonomies with my custom post types like…
http://www.mysite.com/custompost/taxonomy/taxonmyterm
It’s just…
http://www.mysite.com/taxonomy/taxonomyterm
Would this have an effect?
I can’t seem to make that work. It only takes me back to the custom post type archive page again.
Btw, I use Custom Post Permalinks plugin to allow custom post type permalinks and archive pages. Could that have created the issue??
Cheers!
Oops, sorry.. it was my theme’s problem. I had an action call to redirect anything that is related to custom post types, thus the redirection of the feeds. But got it fixed now.