Categorised Feeds

Following on from 42: Targetted feeds it is done.

In addition to the main feed for the site (RSS and Atom) there are now separate feeds for each Category. So if you are only interested in what I have to say about Cycling you can subscribe to that feed only. The categories are listed below the (XML) links are the Cateogory RSS feeds:

• Cycling (XML)
• Java (XML)
• Life (XML)
• OperatingSystems (XML)
• Python (XML)
• Religion (XML)
• Weblogs (XML)
• Web/Tech (XML)

I will be submitting the category feeds to appropriate aggregators (eg Planet Python).

It will be interesting to see what this does to traffic.

Comments

[DaveW]

H'mm first attempt was not quite right. It included all the posts in a category in the feed - oop's.

Anyway now nicely fixed to 20 items, newest first.

[Gert Baudoncq]

Hey,

I'm trying to generate feeds per catergory for our i-wisdom blog.
How did you manage to produce feeds for the different categories? I found some sample code on how to create 'Excerpts Only' or 'full post with or without comments' but nothing on how to generate feeds per category. Could you post or send some sample code? Thx

[DaveW]

Gert,

I'll grab what I have done and email it to you. Basically you need to create an advanced template set. You then add templates for each extra RSS feed which are set to regenerate when the index page is re-created.

Dave

[Gert Baudoncq]

Dave,

That would be very kind of you. Looking forward to receive the information.

Thanks a lot.
Best regards,
Gert