How can I exclude certain posts from Wordpress RSS feeds? - wordpress

Question

Is there a way to exclude a post from all of Wordpress' RSS feeds (the default one as well as tags, categories, and search feeds)?

Answer 1

Assuming you do not want to use plugins like THIS ONE or THIS, you have many ways :
One is to assign a category for the posts you would like to exclude and then you can just change the URL of the RSS link like so :
http://www.mydomain.com/feed?cat=-x,-y,-z
You can also FILTER with a function :
function o99_my_rss_filter($query) {
if ($query->is_feed) {
$query->set('cat','-7'); //Put category ID - here it is : 7
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','o99_my_rss_filter');
The point is that you will need to assign SOMETHING (tag, custom field, category) to identify what to exclude , assuming that you do not want always to add the ID to exclude from the query.
The easiest is by category as demonstrated above .
** Edit I **
Just for the sake of it - (I still recommend the cetegory method) r
Even if I dislike custom-fields when they are overused - this is another way that change the query by assigning a custom field :
function o99_my_rss_filter_by _field( $where, $wp_query = NULL ) {
global $wpdb;
if ( !$wp_query ) global $wp_query;if ( $wp_query->is_feed ) {
$posts = get_posts( array( 'meta_key' => 'norss' ) );
if ( $posts ) {
foreach( $posts as $post ) {
$exclude .= $post->ID . ',';
}
}
$exclude = substr( $exclude,0, strlen( $exclude )-1 );
$where .= ' AND $wpdb->posts.ID NOT IN ( ' . $exclude . ')';
}
return $where;
}
add_filter( 'posts_where', 'o99_my_rss_filter_by _field', 1, 4 );