Due to the increasing popularity of the blogging platform, WordPress has now moved more into a full featured CMS (content management system). For this reason it has enriched itself with lots of cool features. Many extra ordinary features have been added that have made it the choice not only for bloggers but for marketers, search engine optimizers and for businesses.
But there’s been a feature that everyone has been asking for having in WordPress since about 2005- the ability to get an RSS feed for a single specific post.
Reasons to Get a Single Post RSS Feed
The reason is quite simple, being able to send your post out as it’s own feed to RSS aggregation sites can provide you with easy, automatic backlinks that spread on their own. Even you can make a secret Newsletter using any feed subscription services. And it seemed for a while, that this was something you just couldn’t do unless you wanted to get into the guts of WordPress’s PHP (Hypertext Pre-processor – a scripting language) insides and recode a few things.
But before you roll up your sleeves for that task, let me introduce a secret to you that I just discovered some minutes ago…. There’s an easy way you can seek from WordPress to give you that single post RSS feed without recoding anything.
Are you ready?
The Single Post RSS Feed URL Formula:
- http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/POST-URI/feed/?withoutcomments=1
So that would make this blog post’s RSS Feed URL the following:
If you are using the default permalink structure on your blog instead of a pretty-link URL, you can also do it this way:
- http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/?p=POSTID&feed=rss2&withoutcomments=1
For example using this post again:
Voila!
You have an RSS feed for your single post itself, and not the post comments feed.
The amount of content from the post included in the single post feed will generally only be an excerpt of the post even if you have your Settings > Reading settings set to show the full text of the post, but for RSS aggregators, that excerpt and the title should be enough.
I hope you enjoyed. Please feel free to comment any question if you have problem doing it. I appreciate your shares in Social networks. Sharing is Caring!
7 thoughts on “How to Create a Single Post RSS Feed in WordPress”
thanks for this mate, I think this is a good idea as many bloggers use this strategy
Thank you Fazal for your comment. Yes it can be a great technique to increase traffic or sell something from your blog. Keep in touch 🙂
You give a url which is nice but you still don’t say how to do it…I am not familiar with wordpress at all but I would like to do a rss for a single post….what do I do to change the url…it there some place in my dashboard I need to go to make the change permanently for all single posts…if so where do I go and what do I do next?
Alma, it’s written in the post. For your convenient here I am pasting the part for you. I think you missed it!
The Single Post RSS Feed URL Formula:
http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/POST-URI/feed/?withoutcomments=1
So that would make this blog post’s RSS Feed URL the following:
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http://www.mizpress.com/how-to-create-a-single-post-rss-feed-in-wordpress/feed/?withoutcomments=1
If you are using the default permalink structure on your blog instead of a pretty-link URL, you can also do it this way:
http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/?p=POSTID&feed=rss2&withoutcomments=1
For example using this post again:
http://www.mizpress.com/?p=164&feed=rss2&withoutcomments=1
Voila!
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Appreciating the hard work you put into your blog and detailed information you provide. It’s nice to come across a blog every once in a while that isn’t the same unwanted rehashed material. Fantastic read! I’ve saved your site and I’m including your RSS feeds to my Google account.
In this way you get post content but not the comments.
I want both content+comments to be included into a single rss(xml file).