{"id":7669,"date":"2018-08-06T10:29:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T09:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=7669"},"modified":"2018-08-06T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T09:29:46","slug":"a-feed-for-my-microcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/a-feed-for-my-microcast\/","title":{"rendered":"A feed for my microcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of my summer holiday fun with WordPress I though I might create a ‘proper’ RSS feed for my microcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are quite a few podcast plugins that would do the job but I though it might be interesting to try a bit of DIY.<\/p>\n

Back when I started a class podcast at Radio Sandaig<\/a> I used to create the RSS feed by hand with a text editor and a fair bit of copy and paste. Over at Edutalk<\/a> we use feedburner to massage the feed for iTunes.<\/p>\n

I used information from How to Roll Your Own Simple WordPress Podcast Plugin | CSS-Tricks<\/a> to get me started with the template.<\/p>\n

I copied the feed-rss2.php<\/em> file from the wp-includes folder to my child theme folder renaming it feed-microcast.php<\/em><\/p>\n

wp-content\/themes\/sempress-child\/feed-microcast.php<\/em><\/p>\n

I adjusted the query to get the posts from my microcast category. I also hard coded the title, link, image and a few other things to simplify the process a little.<\/p>\n

I then used the template from CSS-Tricks as a guide to adding the various podcast tags to my template.<\/p>\n

This ended up with a pretty broken feed, mostly due to my lack of care, but I fixed it up later I got it linked up.<\/p>\n

I didn’t want to use the custom post type approach used in the article because that would involve editing all the old posts or converting them to the new type somehow.<\/p>\n

My first idea was to create a feed template and switch to that when the RSS feed for my microcast category was called for.<\/p>\n

After failing to get the template to switch for the standard category feed, \/category\/microcast\/feed<\/em> I ended up with a custom feed at \/feed\/microcast<\/em>.<\/p>\n

and I add<\/p>\n

add_action('init', 'customRSS');\nfunction customRSS(){\n        add_feed('microcast', 'customRSSFunc');\n}\n\nfunction customRSSFunc(){\n        get_template_part('feed', 'microcast');\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
to my functions.php file.<\/p>\n
I then spent a bit of time using the W3C feed validation service<\/a> until I fixed the feed up to valadate.<\/p>\n
I’ve still got to get a link to the feed into the microcast category page head tag and I hope to do that as soon as I’ve gone a bit of research. For now I’ve a link in the sidebar.<\/p>\n
Here is the template: WordPress RSS feed template for my microcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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