Zhekich Feed Generator for Dzen

Dzen moved partner sites to a single unified RSS format for News and channel content (see dzen.ru/help/ru/news/seamless/rss.html, rules effective 2026-07-13). The old separate feeds are being switched off automatically. Yandex.News Feed by Teplitsa, used by thousands of sites, is no longer supported and will not be updated.

Zhekich Feed Generator for Dzen is an independent replacement that does not depend on any third-party RSS plugin.

Three unified-RSS schemes

Dzen accepts three schemes; this plugin supports all of them:

1. Single feed, <contentType> per post. The publication type (News / channel / both) is chosen individually for each post. Pro.
2. Single feed, two URLs per post. Each post has its regular site page plus a separate shadow mirror page (Dzen compares the title/text against the page content). Pro.
3. Two separate feeds. One feed entirely for News, another entirely for the channel — no per-post differences needed, the lowest barrier to entry. Free.

Free

• Ready-made feeds /feed/dzen-news/ (News) and /feed/dzen/ (channel).
• Post age limit, logo and square logo, category/term exclusion, hide author — full feature parity with Yandex.News Feed by Teplitsa.
• Its own HTML processor built for Dzen’s requirements: allowed tags (p, a, b, i, u, s, h1-h4, blockquote, ul/ol+li, img, figure, figcaption), em → i, strong → b, br → paragraphs, <enclosure> cover image at least 700px wide, media:rating.
• Automatically swaps undersized/CDN-proxied in-article images (e.g. from WordPress galleries or Jetpack Photon) for the original full-size file when one is available, to meet Dzen’s 480×320 minimum for images inside the article body.
• Optional: include the cover image in the article body itself when the post has no images of its own (some sites only ever set a featured image).

Pro

Variants 1 and 2 are provided by a separate paid add-on, Zhekich Feed Generator for Dzen Pro — installed on top of this plugin, not distributed through the WordPress.org directory (all the code in this repository is free and fully functional on its own, without Pro).

• Per-post publication type control via a meta box on the post edit screen (variant 1).
• Dual-URL mode via automatic shadow pages (variant 2).
• Purchase and activation happen on the « Pro » tab in this plugin’s settings.

Disclaimer

This plugin is not affiliated with Yandex/Dzen and is not an official product. « Dzen » and « Yandex.News » are trademarks of their respective owners, mentioned solely to describe compatibility.