Custom Feed URLs

I am creating a custom feed for one of my post types, and letting users set the name of that feed.

http://www.mysite.com/feed/userdefinedname

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Now I’d like to also enable users to show not only all the posts from that CPT but also filter them by category. At the moment it works like so:

http://www.mysite.com/feed/testcategory

However I’d very much prefer it if I could structure it as follows:

http://www.mysite.com/feed/userdefinedname/testcategory

Is that possible?

Here’s the code that is generating these category based feeds:

 /**
 * Generate the feeds for categories
 *
 * @since 1.0
 */
function rss_c_add_category_feed( $in ) {

    $category = $GLOBALS['wp_rewrite']->feeds[ count( $GLOBALS['wp_rewrite']->feeds ) - 1 ];

    // Prepare the post query
    // Get published rss_feed posts with a rss_category slug in the taxonomy
    $rss_custom_feed_query = apply_filters(            
        'rss_custom_feed_query',
        array(
            'post_type'   => 'rss_feed', 
            'post_status' => 'publish',
            'cache_results' => false,   // disable caching
            'tax_query' => array(
                array(
                    'taxonomy' => 'rss_category',
                    'field'    => 'slug',
                    'terms'    => array( $category ),
                    'operator' => 'IN'
                )
            )
        )
    );

    // Submit the query to get latest feed items
    query_posts( $rss_custom_feed_query );

    $sources = array();
    while ( have_posts() ) {
        the_post();
        $sources[] = get_the_ID();
    }


    // Create the query array
    $pre_query = array(
        'post_type'      => 'rss_feed_item', 
        'post_status'    => 'publish',
        'cache_results'  => false,   // disable caching
        'meta_query'     => array(
                                array(
                                    'key'     => 'rss_feed_id',
                                    'value'   => $sources,
                                    'compare' => 'IN'
                                )
        )
    );

    // Get options
    $options = get_option( 'rss_settings_general' );
    if ( $options !== FALSE ) {
        // If options exist, get the limit
        $limit = $options['custom_feed_limit'];
        if ( $limit !== FALSE ) {
            // if limit exists, set the query limit
            $pre_query['posts_per_page'] = $limit;
        }
    }

    // query the posts
    query_posts( $pre_query );

    // Send content header and start ATOM output
    header('Content-Type: application/atom+xml');
    // Disabling caching
    header('Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate'); // HTTP 1.1.
    header('Pragma: no-cache'); // HTTP 1.0.
    header('Expires: 0'); // Proxies.
    echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="' . get_option('blog_charset') . '"?' . '>';
    ?>
    <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
        <title type="text">Latest imported feed items on <?php bloginfo_rss('name'); ?></title>
        <?php
        // Start the Loop
        while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

        ?>
        <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[<?php the_title_rss(); ?>]]></title>
            <link href="<?php the_permalink_rss(); ?>" />
            <published><?php echo get_post_time( 'Y-m-dTH:i:sZ' ); ?></published>
            <content type="html"><![CDATA[<?php the_content(); ?>]]></content>
        </entry>
        <?php
        // End of the Loop
        endwhile;
        ?>
    </feed>
    <?php
}

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1 comment

  1. As Krzysiek says its hard to give a good answer without knowing how your doing your feeds. But assuming that you’ve extended the default wordpress feeds so your feed could be accessed by going to index.php?feed=userdefinedname, then this rewrite rule should do the job for you.

    add_rewrite_rule(
        '^feed/(.+)/(.+)?/?$',
        'index.php?feed=$matches[1]&category_name=$matches[2]',
        'top'
    ); // /feed/userdefinedname/testcategory
    

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