WordPress 3.0 Theme Tip: Feed Links
For ages, theme authors have been adding code like this to their theme’s header.php files:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
No need for that any more. Remove that stuff, make sure you’ve got the wp_head() call in the header (like you should anyway), then add this to the theme’s functions.php file instead:
add_theme_support( 'automatic-feed-links' );
This automatically adds the relevant feed links everywhere on the whole site. Standard feed, comments links, category and tag archives, everything as it should be.
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thx, great tip, been struggling with a lot of plugins to achieve this
Automatic feed links have been around since WP 2.8.
Only the `add_theme_support( ‘automatic-feed-links’ );` bit is new.
True, but almost nobody knew about it in 2.8. This makes it more obvious and somewhat simpler to use.
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I have added the code to functions.php and the header is correct, but the feeds do not work. Anything else I might try? This is a wp ecommerce site. Thanks for the tips.
I’m using this to generate automatic feed links, however I would like to disable the Global Comments Feed from appearing on EVERY page. Any suggestions?