Before I go on I'd like to clarify that I use google reader to test my site's RSS feed.
Ok, if my title doesn't explain it well enough, my wordpress is using a custom made theme that I bought from some site, they actually provide support but I haven't gotten any actual answer so far, so I hope I can get some answer here.
Basically my site's RSS feed is not fetching my videos which is embed directly to post. I have troubleshoot it by using wordpress default theme, and the embed videos get fetched just right in my google reader. So I think the problem lies in the custom theme I'm using.
But I don't know how to troubleshoot and move on from this point. Anybody has got a clue what might just be the problem?
first of all, the authors of a bought Theme should offer solutions for that.
Try the source view of your RSS feed and check if the videos are included. If so, maybe there is some reason why Google Reader does not fetch these.
Add the videos to your RSS feed. Find out, how your Theme stores the videos. Write a custom function to manipulate your RSS-feed and put it into your functions.php (be carefully with updates, afterwards).
See this discussion: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-on-rss-feed-how-to
Plugin for additional RSS fields:
http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/01/27/custom-fields-for-feeds-wordpress-plugin
Manipulation RSS feeds:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-content-and-completely-manipulate-your-wordpress-rss-feeds/
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I have a client with two active Wordpress sites (let's call them A and B). I am currently redesigning site A. Per client request, site A should display on its homepage an RSS feed block of site B's news feed. This includes the featured images from posts in site B's feed. However, I cannot find any way to get these featured images to show up on site A. Wordpress admin panel gives no option in the RSS feed block settings to show featured images; a lot of googling has turned up nothing on how to code this as a default for the RSS feed block in the theme itself (which would be preferable in this case to hard coding the RSS feed import in the theme file).
I wondered if the problem might be on site B's side and requested that the client contact site B's team and make sure they had enabled featured image sharing for their RSS feeds, and some days later was assured that this had been done. However, nothing seems to have changed on my end - the images are still not showing up on site A and I can't even find, say, hidden links to them when using the inspector tool (or anything else which might indicate the images are present but not visible due to CSS etc).
I'm fairly new to Wordpress and this seems like something which would be done commonly and have a straightforward solution, but I'm at a loss. Wordpress's own docs for the RSS block don't mention a possibility of importing images. Is it even possible to customise the block in this way? Will the whole RSS feed section have to be hard coded into the theme files?
The RSS Block doesn't support images, but you can try using a plugin. Both WP RSS Retriever and WP RSS Aggregator support images.
I also recommend manually inspecting the RSS feed to ensure that the featured images are included.
Little bit of background, i am recreating a current wordpress.com website in wordpress.org so the owner can make any changes they want. I completed most of the design and was starting to import data from the old site. A lot of blog posts had the following shortcode in it
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQKUQiY2LVA]
This doesn't work in wordpress.org though. So my question is, is their a way to make this shortcode actually work and doesnt require to rewrite every blogpost with a video?
I would check out this wordpress.com page about youtube embedding.
Seems like you only have to change a little formatting, wordpress.com uses a similar shortcode.
Just open your .sql file in an editor and perform a search and replace.
I'm trying to back up my shopify blog but shopify doesn't have any way to export your blog posts and content. Can this be done somehow using the RSS feed?
I don't think this can be done through the RSS feed. It normally returns a limited number of posts e.g. 10.
I know it's an old thread but just in case anyone else was trying to do this I wrote a bit of python code that grabs post content from a shopify blog and saves it to a csv file that can be used to import it into a wordpress blog. It's only the text content of each post at the moment.
http://techasabrick.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/backup-a-shopify-blog-and-import-it-to-wordpress/
I've developed my own Wordpress theme and I wanted to give users the ability to subscribe to my blog.
I have the typical Post RSS and Comment RSS options that come with Wordpress under the META section of the sidebar, but I also wanted to give my readers an option to just input their email address and press a button to "subscribe".
I know this is possible since I've seen many many blogs that use this, and if needed I can list some here. But I'm not sure if this is a plugin or a widget or what-have-you.
If you know how to implement this functionality into a Wordpress theme please let me know.
Try this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/
When i wanna add a new functionality to my WP sites, i always start by googling plugins. I mean if the solution already exists, that means less work for me, right? ;)
There are enough newsletter plugins in the plugin directory. You shouldn't add such code into your theme; this is really a plugin job, and your users may choose another one than yours.
This plugin is very useful if you are using feedburner http://feedburner.google.com/ for feeds.
This will open a popup to your visitor for subscriber
https://wordpress.org/plugins/sc-popup-subscriber-form/
You can try with https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/ it's so helpful plugin for email subscription option on WordPress site.
As best I can see, when the blog .xml includes the following line:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/rss2spanishfull.xsl
then FeedBurner automatically interprets it as Spanish and when a potential subscriber makes a request.
I do not know how to get that line into my WordPress .xml feed.
Can anyone help?
Can you please provide more information? Is your WP Blog current written in Spanish? I'm confused, I think what you are trying to say is you want your Feedburner feed to also be in Spanish. This is most likely a Feedburner setting.
Hi Brandon: You were right - it can be fixed via feedburner under the optimization section.
I had thought that it had to be part of the WP XML creation (actually it probably could be) - but anyway Feedburner can do this.... many thanks.
The Blog is in Spanish - but the Feedburner automatically uses English settings. So when subscribers click for their RSS feed the default page is in English.