Title: Understanding RSS
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Understanding RSS

 *  [zzsimonb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zzsimonb/)
 * (@zzsimonb)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-rss/)
 * I realize that this likely is a silly question, but it is driving me crazy, so
   be gentle on me. I own site A, and it has an RSS outbound feed. Site B wants 
   only part of the feed, Site B is only interested in articles that contain the
   name ‘John Smith’.
 * So the question is… Can I set up a situation where I can put John Smith articles
   into a different stream?
 * I am sorry that this seems such a silly question, but I am a writer not a tech
   guru.
 * Simon

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 *  [Big Bagel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/big-bagel/)
 * (@big-bagel)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-rss/#post-2346808)
 * WordPress automatically generates different feeds for categories, tags, post/
   page comments, authors, and searches.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds)
 * Is John Smith an author, tag, or category, or just a name within the content 
   of your pages/posts?
 *  Thread Starter [zzsimonb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zzsimonb/)
 * (@zzsimonb)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-rss/#post-2346814)
 * John Smith is not the author, however there is a unique part in the title of 
   each article, and a unique name in the body of the text.
 * Mr Smith wants an RSS feed for use in his world, but only articles about Mr Smith.
   Obviously I do not want to lose my RSS feed to the wide world. So how do I make
   Mr Smith happy?
 * Simon
 *  [Big Bagel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/big-bagel/)
 * (@big-bagel)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-rss/#post-2346822)
 * The easiest thing to do would be to add a category or tag to each of his posts(“
   John Smith” for example) then use the feed for that category/tag:
 * example.com/category/john-smith/feed
    example.com/tag/john-smith/feed
 * If a WordPress search is able to accurately grab all posts with “John Smith” 
   in them, then you could also turn that search into a feed with:
 * example.com/?s=john+smith&feed=rss2
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds)

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