RSS Feeds And You

Written by Boston Biker on Jun 28

Got a question in the email about RSS feeds, thought I would just throw this up here in case anyone wants to know. If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, or you don’t care what an RSS feed is, you can ignore this post.

 

Comments:

You can get a feed of all comments for all posts by subscribing here

bostonbiker.org/comments/feed

Or you can get individual posts comment feeds like this

bostonbiker.org/post-name/feed

so for example

http://bostonbiker.org/2011/06/27/black-falcon-crit/feed/

Posts:

You can get an RSS feed of all front page posts, the front page is a little wacky with its feeds so it uses some non-standard formats, these will only work for the front page.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/BostonBiker

If you want the feed for a hosted blogs posts you would use

blogname.bostonbiker.org/feed

Sitewide Feed:

if you want a feed of every post on every blog you can subscribe here

http://tags.bostonbiker.org/feed/

Categories and tags:

If you want to subscribe to just a certain category, or just a certain tag.

http://bostonbiker.org/category/categoryname/feed

http://bostonbiker.org/tag/tagname/feed

Authors:

Just want to read one author from a multi-author blog?

http://bostonbiker.org/author/authorname/feed/

Search:

Search results can also have their own feed. Here is the format:

http://bostonbiker.org/?s=searchterm&feed=rss2

Other:

For any blog in the system you can use any of the above feeds (except the noted odd ball ones), just switch bostonbiker.org, to blogname.bostonbiker.org

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