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Tuesday, 11th July 2006

:: Feed Control

Introduction

I wrote this plugin because I decided to create some Pages in WordPress for my site, but it wasn't until later that I realised that Pages are not included in the main feeds that WordPress generates when an update service tries to get the feeds from my site.

This plugin will allow you to change how WordPress generates the main feeds that the update services use. From here you can add Pages to your feeds or remove posts from them. You also have the option to exclude specific posts or pages based on their ID and can also set the sort options to use modified date instead of post date.

If you are feeling generous after trying this plugin out, please support my efforts through the donate link you see on my site. I've been cracking the code out on my free time, so even a small token amount is appreciated.

Hope you find this useful. Let me know if you have any problems or have suggestions for improving it! Thanks!

Download

Feed Control version 1.0 has been downloaded 3477 times!

Installation

1. Extract the files and transfer the 'feedcontrol' folder to your plugins folder.
2. Log into your admin panel and click on 'Activate'.
3. Goto the 'Feed Control' option menu under 'Options' and set your preferences.

:: comments

Tue, 11th July 2006

Hi - that’s really extremely useful. Looking forward to trying it out.

:: Jonas

Tue, 11th July 2006

Thanks - I will check it out.

BTW — what are you using to count your downloads? Thanks!

:: Jaxia

Tue, 11th July 2006

Jaxia,
The download counts is a new statistics plugin that I’m working on still. I expect to complete it soon and will post it up for download soon. I’ll keep you posted.

:: silpstream

Wed, 12th July 2006

One modest observation: On the “feed control” page, the Flock browser (which I’m using) sees the RSS preview as a cue to read the feed only.
Maybe this can be fixed by changing a Flock setting (haven’t found it yet) - but you might consider a “show preview - yes/no” thing.

:: Jonas

Fri, 28th July 2006

Hi! Thanks for this plugin. Really useful.

Is there a way to exclude whole categories? For example I have a separate category “info” for just posts on site updates, and all the those posts really don’t need to show up on Technorati.

:: Jasso

Sat, 29th July 2006

Jasso,
Unfortuantely I didn’t implement a function in this to do that. You’ll just have to do things based on the ID number for now. I might look at this later, but I can’t say when yet.

:: silpstream

Wed, 23rd August 2006

Hi,

Activating Feed Control invalidates my RSS feed (seems to be related to a recent upgrade to WP 2.04).
Here’s the broken feed: http://game-research.com/2/?feed=rss2

Any idea about the nature of the problem?

Thx

:: Jonas

Sat, 26th August 2006

Jonas,
I was able to validate your feed with the tools at w3.org. I’m not sure what problem you are seeing.

:: silpstream

Sun, 27th August 2006

Hi,

Curious - my problem is that news readers get the feed wrong - as do all validators when I try, e.g. http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http://game-research.com/2/?feed=rss2

I just tried posting the feed into the box at w3 (instead of pasting the URL). This gives me:

This feed does not validate.

line 2, column 0: XML parsing error: :2:0: not well-formed (invalid token)

:: Jonas

Mon, 28th August 2006

Jonas,
I reran the check but things still seemed to work. I sent you a screen print via email.

:: silpstream

Wed, 30th August 2006

Hello! I’m looking for a plugin that lets me show a different Number Of Posts in the feed, depending on which category it is. For example my “News” feed will be the usual 10 posts limit, but the “Podcast” feed will show “-1″ posts (or, ALL the posts in that category, whether it’s 12 posts or 40).

Can you add this feature, or is there another way?

:: Dgold

Thu, 14th September 2006

HI,
Thank you for this plugin.
However It doesn’t work with my site - look what I’m getting:
XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: .
Location: http://abba-daddy.com/feed/?preview=true
Line Number 21, Column 32:

Can you help me ?

Thanx

:: eyal

Mon, 25th September 2006

Here’s a link to a modified version which adds support to exclude certain categories from the main feed. No other plugin I have found provides this ability, and FeedControl has the best platform to do it.

http://dev.redprocess.com/tmp/feedcontrol.phps

Thanks

:: Alex

Mon, 25th December 2006

Great site, I am bookmarking it!Keep it up!
With the best regards!
David

:: DavidxJackson

Wed, 24th January 2007

Hello, great site, I found a lot of useful information here, thanks a lot for Your work!
With the best regards!
Jimmy

:: JimmyxJackson

Sat, 21st April 2007

Hey,
I love what you’e doing!
Don’t ever change and best of luck.

Raymon W.

:: RaymonWazerri