Create a new personalized RSS feed in WordPress

 Here is a very useful piece of code that will allow you to create a new RSS feed in WordPress.

Indeed, we sometimes need to provide an RSS feed independent of the native feed. For this, there is a piece of code that I discovered on Yoast!

 

1) Create a new page template called pagerss.php

Start from a blank page in Notepad and insert the following code, before uploading it to your theme folder:

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<?php
/*
Template Name: Custom Feed
*/

$numposts = 10;

function custom_rss_date($timestamp = null) {
$timestamp = ($timestamp==null) ? time(): $timestamp;
echo date(DATE_RSS, $timestamp);
}

$posts = query_posts('showposts='.$numposts);

$lastpost = $numposts – 1;

header(“Content-Type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8”);
echo ' ';
?>
<channel>
Your title
Your URL
your description
fr-fr
post_date_gmt) ); ?>
post_date_gmt) ); ?>
Your mail
<?php foreach ($posts as $post) { ?>
<item>
<?php echo get_the_title($post->ID); ?>
ID); ?>
<![CDATA[ post_content; ?>]]>
post_date_gmt) ); ?>
ID); ?>
</item>
<?php } ?>
</channel>
</rss>

You can replace the “Your…” fields with your own fields.

2) Create a new page in WordPress

Publish a new page from your WordPress admin, affiliating it with the “Custom Feed” page template that we have just created above.

3) Launch your published page

Once the page is published, launch it. You should see your new RSS feed!

7 Responses

  1. No worries, I’ll take this opportunity to point out to you that there remains a “yoast_rss_date” function in the one you give 😉

  2. Hello, thank you for this little article, I have a little problem, I have an error on the first line when I try to load the created page:

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE

    I looked for solutions, but I still haven't found anything, do you know where this could come from?
    thanks in advance

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