RSS feed for a page
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Yet another RSS feed question, i know, but i haven’t found the answer to this. I have a page on my site that will be periodically updated: http://jblace.wordpress.com/galleries/pattern-gallery
I want readers to be able to subscribe to a feed from that page, so they can quickly see when something is new. I have set up a text widget with the RSS feed info (http://jblace.wordpress.com/galleries/pattern-gallery/feed/atom).
The feed reader doesn’t see any articles, though, because it’s a static page. Is there any way to get this to work?
Thanks.
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Pages and posts are entirely different. Pages are for static content that is not being constantly updated. Posts are for information that is being continuously updated. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/a-post-and-a-page/
If you put the information into posts and also create a category then you can set up a feed specifically for that category and subscribers will be able to receive the updates. That IMHO is the only way for you to achieve what you’re aiming at. But perhaps someone else has another solution. Have you checked the forum search box? http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=5134&replies=4#post-33094 -
Timethief,
i know that. I just want to know if there’s a way to get a feed to work with a page (as opposed to a post). If not then, oh well. It would be nice, though.
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but i can’t keep a post in a page hierarchy, right? If you look at my site, you’ll see i’m actually using the architecture for a more traditional website instead of a blog, and the hierarchy is important to me.
I searched the forums to no avail, which is why i posted here.
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Okay, i have figured out a work-around, thanks to timethief’s hint about the category feeds. It’s not particularly elegant, but it works.
Check my site if you want to see how i did it.
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Individual Posts and Pages do not have feeds. Just the comments from them.
Gotta admit that seeing a feed from a Page might be interesting and I can see how it could be used.
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I’d also like to see the feature of having the pages in feeds. Is there a certain reason for not being able to add them to a feed..?
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I have had a request for an explanation of my work-around for this.
What i do is simply write a post every time the page is updated (you can see one here:
http://jblace.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/rocking-horse-pattern-available/ ). The post includes a link to the page, and people will be able to see the post in the RSS feed.I said it wasn’t particularly elegant ;-)
@TT: Thanks for the compliment; sorry i didn’t acknowledge it earlier :)
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