Current Category Feed

altp
(@altp)

21 years, 4 months ago

I want to update the link to the RSS feed on each page depending on what the current category is. Is there a way to either:

1) Call that directly?

2) get the current category name with the dashes already in place? (category “foo bar” has the uri “foo-bar”)

Either of these options would get me what I need.

Mike.

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Cypher
(@cypher)

21 years, 4 months ago

Mike,

If you have permalinks enabled, and are using the default stucture..then categories will have the URL of:

http://yoursite.com/archives/category/<category name>

If you add “/feed” to that URL, you will grab the RSS feed for that particular category.

So, on whatever page you want to put the feel, just grab the SERVER_URL or something using PHP and then append “/feed” to it..

It should be that simple. (TM) 🙂

Regards

Thread Starter altp
(@altp)

21 years, 4 months ago

This doesn’t seem to work. Most likely because by the time the PHP scripts get a whole of it, apache has already parsed it all out.

No matter where I am on the site, request_uri is always the initial index.php … not the actual url that was visited.

Thread Starter altp
(@altp)

21 years, 4 months ago

Er. perhaps I should have actually ed used request_uri before responding ;-).

works fine using that. I initially put it php_self for some reason

Cypher
(@cypher)

21 years, 4 months ago

Ahh yes..request_uri, that’s the one I was trying to think of. I’m glad it worked for you. 🙂

Regards

thepete
(@thepete)

21 years ago

Thanks for this thread! It’s been very helpful.

However, I have one question for Cypher (or anyone else who knows the answer): Is there anyway to have the category description and name used in the feed as opposed to the title of your blog and blog description?

soupenvy
(@soupenvy)

21 years ago

And if you’re not using the default permalink stucture?

– Can’t seem to get a category feed with the above methods.

tungpo
(@tungpo)

20 years, 11 months ago

http://yoursite.com/archives/category/<category name>
If you add “/feed” to that URL, you will grab the RSS feed for that particular category.

This works as long as a category contains 1 page. With more pages, the mod_rewritten URL for a feed looks like http://site.com/category-name/page/4/feed/. There’s no feed at this address – only at http://site.com/category-name/feed/.

How can I get the feed links on the deeper category pages to point to the …/category-name/feed/, not the unexisting …/category-name/page/number/feed/?

dubsix
(@dubsix)

19 years, 10 months ago

This works as long as a category contains 1 page. With more pages, the mod_rewritten URL for a feed looks like site.com/category-name/page/4/feed/. There’s no feed at this address – only at site.com/category-name/feed/.

How can I get the feed links on the deeper category pages to point to the …/category-name/feed/, not the unexisting …/category-name/page/number/feed/?

I don’t suppose anyone has figured this out yet?

dubsix
(@dubsix)

19 years, 10 months ago

I don’t suppose anyone has figured this out yet?

I finally did myself! Added this to .htaccess

RedirectMatch /categories/(.*)/page/.*/feed/ /categories/$1/feed/

I had to use RedirectMatch, for some reason a similar RewriteRule was not working.