Comments on: WordPress feed filtering

By: Lorna

Lorna — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:51:25 +0000

Hmm, then I think you would have to set a robots.txt or .htaccess on that one, because I think the most this plugin will do is to manipulate what your users will or will not see.

By: Aseem Kishore

Aseem Kishore — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:49:35 +0000

FINALLY! I’ve been looking for a plug-in that would allow me to put a post into multiple categories and have it filtered out. But I’m still not sure if this means that the post will be seen by a search bot in all categories or not? I would not want it to be seen in more than once place by the robot, but by the users.

By: RT Cunningham

RT Cunningham — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:17:09 +0000

Oops, I downloaded the old version — no wonder it hosed things up. I downloaded the “beta” version and so far so good. I did a resync with Feedburner, but nothing has changed yet, like it did when it hosed everything.

By: Lorna

Lorna — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:32:32 +0000

I see it affected your feed as well. Your Dancing Inmates post appeared 7 times!

By: RT Cunningham

RT Cunningham — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:28:38 +0000

Aha! I understand, but it’s very odd that it works that way. By the way, I was mistaken. One post was triplicated while the sponsored post was still there and it’s the one that I excluded.

I’ll have to dig into it again. In the meantime, I’m using a snippet of code in theme’s function.php file to try to do it the easy way. Or, at least I think it’s easier. I’ll let you know.

By: Lorna

Lorna — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:25:06 +0000

RT, I read the comments in the plugin web site, and from what I can gather, the posts appear that way when you select more than one category for the posts. Wasn’t clear whether using Exclusion may or may not solve the problem.

By: RT Cunningham

RT Cunningham — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:49:09 +0000

Hi Lorna,

I just tried this plugin today (the latest version). While it stopped the category I wanted from showing up in the feeds, it caused recent posts to show up three times in the browser. Really weird. I wish I could figure out which file controls the feeds because I’d go right there and edit it by hand — actually, I’d probably write a function modifier in my theme.

By: Zaiaku

Zaiaku — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:40:39 +0000

I find myself updating my htacess all the time. Especially when trying to simply file links and pages. Glad you got it working for you.