WordPress Category Feeds and FeedBurner

June 12, 2007 in Blog, WordPress by Carsten Pötter | Comments

A few days ago David Recordon asked if he could get a RSS feed for my blog posts tagged with OpenID to add to planet.openid.net. I happily agreed though it turned out I had trouble providing a category feed.

Usually WordPress automatically generates category feeds in the form: www.example.com/category/yourcategory/feed. I use FeedBurner and unfortunately, those category feeds were redirected back to the main FeedBurner feed. I was searching Google for two evenings, tried several plugins but did not succeed; I even considered leaving FeedBurner.

Eventually I have found the solution in the depths of the WordPress support forums. All I had to do was updating the Permalink Redirect plugin. It couldn’t be easier. Lucky me. :)

Tags: David Recordon, Google, www.example.com/category/yourcategory/feed

  • Hi Carston. Couple questions: 1) Did you uninstall the Permalink Redirect plugin completely or deactivate it, then update then plugin? 2) What options did you have to configure in the Permalink Redirect plugin to get your category feeds working properly (assuming you updated the plugin)?

    Thanks.

    --Jason Pelker
  • Carsten Pötter
    Jason, I uninstalled the old version completely, then installed the new one (0.7.0); 0.8.0 is out since a couple of days, btw. The only option I have activated is the link to my FeedBurner feed. Originally I checked Hostname Redirect as well but that was a dumb decison by me because my OpenID didn't work anymore (see here).
  • I'm trying to get redirects going from my Wordpress category feeds to their corresponding Feedburner versions; I'm not clear on whether you used this plugin to do that. Can you help?
  • Carsten Pötter
    As far as I can see I have no redirects of my category feeds to FeedBurner. Though if you check the Hostname Redirect box as well all your feeds will redirect to FeedBurner.
  • Ujjwol
    After installing the plugin what to do to make category feeds
  • As explained in the article, WordPress automatically creates category feeds: www.example.com/category/yourcategory/feed

    Just click on a category of your blog and subscribe to that feed. Usually, this works fine.
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