Custom RSS Feeds

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  sinthea · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 8:41 pm

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  I would like to offer readers the ability of subscribing to an RSS feed of only articles in a specific category. I read the Feeds support page, so I know how the URL should include /category/ blah blah / feed.

  What I cannot figure out is the RSS Widget – it appears to be fixed to offer only full blog feed or comments feed – is there any way to edit it to offer a couple category feeds too?

  If not, if I have to make my own widget with a Text widget, can you help me with the text / code / icons I need? Tell me where to find those? Thanks.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 8:45 pm

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  The RSS widget http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/ not to be confused with the RSS links widget http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-links-widget/ accepts the URL for any feed
  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/category/categoryname/feed/

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  sinthea · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 8:55 pm

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  I’m sorry, I wrote it wrong, but I am in the RSS Links widget in my test ground – under “feeds to display” it drops down to three choices – Feeds / Comments / Feeds & Comments.

  I can’t seem to write in that drop down – the choices are fixed – I’m sorry, but where do I enter my custom URL? Reading the support document, it describes only those three choices, nothing about how to enter custom feed URLs like the category one. Apologies if I am being dense, but I just cannot get past the fixed choices.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 8:58 pm

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  Forget the RSS Links widget.
  Use the RSS widget and the syntax I posted above please.

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  sinthea · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 9:15 pm

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  Sorry. I just did that, you can see it on my blog now. For one thing it says there’s an error, but more importantly – it looks to me from the Support page RSS Links Support Pageas if that widget will display the items in the feed in the sidebar of my blog.

  What I want to do, is to give readers an RSS icon to click on to subscribe to receive only (for example) the portuguese language articles in their feed reader – right now the existing RSS subscription gives folks all articles in both English and Portuguese. Thanks

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  sinthea · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 9:16 pm

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  sorry, not links, I really did mean RSS widget – the hyper link is correct – sorry!!!

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  sinthea · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 9:43 pm

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  TT, I think I can solve all my problems in one swell foop: I will do the parent / child page to do the category sort as you suggested elsewhere, and on the intro text on the parent page add hyperlinks for the two language-specific-category feeds.

  Thanks very much for the help and patience with me, as always!!