Distinct RSS Feeds for Each Tag

Hi,

To be honest – we should implement it in this case also for authors. It will generate 2 additional files (XML and JSON feed) for every tag/author, which also will be updated quite often (with every change of tag/author page content).

Maybe in the future as a plugin. But it will require more users interesed in such feature. In fact I think that RSS is slowly dying and less and less people are using it :/

I‘m seconding this; in my bubble people are revisiting RSS, too. It has become really popular again after Elon‘s Twitter fiasco and everyone fleeing to Mastodon. Suddenly people ask what other options they have to distribute or consume content, away from commercial platforms. And we oldtimers are being asked how we did it in the olden days of blogging. This might be anecdotal, but if it‘s not too much of a hassle for you, I‘d vote for this feature.

You can use an external tool to achieve distinct feeds based on different tags: https://www.pipes.digital/

I wrote an article about Publii and Pipes: https://www.s3nnet.de/publii-tips-distinct-feeds-with-pipesdigital/

@<span class=”f-author-name”>candidexmedia</span> Pipes takes your full-sized feed from your server and offers to filter it in many ways before spitting the new feed out.
The new feed is then offered by a link like that:
https://www.pipes.digital/feed/AqG8bV9p
I use it to hide english articles from a German blog network.
I think it’s rather meant for feed distributing than integrations in other software.

Sure,

it’s easy once you got it.

Just enter the desired tag name and in the “search in Fields” dropdown choose “item.category”. The pipe output would then consist only of posts matching that tag.

To my understanding checking the “block found items” box turns the table and would only remove posts matching that tag.

Filtering by item.author is possible as well.

The disadvantage of this solution is that you got an external URL for those particular feeds unless you download the resulting .rss file and put it on your server, but this feed wouldn’t update hence being only suitable for archived areas of you site. Nonetheless, you get different feeds to use in different places, e.g. aggregators, mastodon, SIG etc.

Hope I could help!

Tomasz Dziuda wrote:

In fact I think that RSS is slowly dying…

i suspect usage has slowed down, but i don’t think it’s dying, not at all, and given the sad state of affairs in the world today, i think news feeds are more important than ever IF one wants to keep up with current affairs (and i sure don’t blame anyone for not wanting too) – companies like Mozilla dropping feed support from their browser doesn’t help either

anyway, i am certainly in favor of tag feeds