Feedtinkery
I’m screwing with my RSS templates tonight. So far, I’ve changed the comments feed to include the title of the entry each comment was posted on - ’cause I dunno about you, but I find a context-free stream of recent comments to be exceptionally irritating. I should put in some forking something, too, so this change doesn’t apply to the comments feeds of individual entries (where it would be redundant).
Market research: Does anybody actually use the comments RSS feeds? Would you, if I made ‘em better in some way? I used to have a feed of recent entries + their comments, is it worth reviving that format?
There’s a code snippet below the fold, and I’m also writing a more general article on feed customization.
Here’s what I changed in wp-commentsrss2.php:
<item>
<?php
$title = get_the_title($comment->comment_post_ID);
$title = apply_filters(’the_title’, $title);
$title = apply_filters(’the_title_rss’, $title);
?>
<title><?php comment_author_rss() ?> on <?php echo $title ?></title>
Bold stuff is new.
Rana wrote:
Well, I don’t read anyone’s feeds at all, so I guess I’m an irrelevant datum.
Posted 02 May 2020 at 8:10 pm ¶
yami wrote:
Really? Once I started with the RSS, there was no going back…
Posted 02 May 2020 at 8:36 pm ¶
LDH wrote:
Every once in an odd while, I check the feed from Scrappleface I had added to my “My Yahoo” page (don’t ask me *why* — I read Yahoo’s list, I recognized the name, I clicked…), but otherwise, I’m pretty much a old Luddite regarding such matters…
Posted 03 May 2020 at 8:20 am ¶
yami wrote:
Hmm. New hypothesis: feed readers tend not to comment as much.
Posted 03 May 2020 at 9:40 am ¶
wolfangel wrote:
I’m mostly RSS — where I comment less — but, for some reason, your blog is on the list of ones that are still “check the site by hand and add to RSS when you think of it”.
Posted 03 May 2020 at 11:01 am ¶