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May 23, 2012 00:10
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Wordpress theme "response" by Cyberchimps should use the same RSS in the icon link and alternate link
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| // add this function in functions.php | |
| /** Replaces RSS link from HTML 'head' with custom feed also used with the 'social icon' */ | |
| function response_feed_links() { | |
| global $themename, $themeslug, $options; | |
| $my_feed=$options->get($themeslug.'_rsslink'); | |
| if ($my_feed) { | |
| echo '<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS feed" href="'.$my_feed.'"/>'; | |
| } | |
| else { | |
| feed_links(); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links', 2); // Display the links to the general feeds: Post and Comment Feed | |
| add_action('wp_head', 'response_feed_links'); |
Sorry for not being clear in the tweet.
Yes, the `<a href>` around the icon on the page (html body) is just fine.
It allows me to set a custom (feedburner) RSS feed.
The problem is in the HTML `<head>` section, where `<link rel="alternate">`feeds are still the default ones.
This means that a user who subscribes, within his favorite RSS reader, by
entering the blog URL (not a copy/paste of the link attached to the icon)
will get the default feed (automatically detected by the RSS reader, thanks
to the `<link rel="alternate">` ) instead of the custom one.
I hope you understand the benefit from this. I use feedburner to agregate /
analyse my subscriptions. If some end-users catch the default RSS feed,
they bypass feedburner.
Ah I see. Yes that makes a lot of sense, I will go ahead and use your code in our next round of updates. Thank you very much!
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Thank you for taking the time to write this out, but can I ask what we would gain by adding this function? Our current RSS links including our social icon seem to be just fine.
Thanks.