This is a test for a new category feed. If you are picking this up, apologies for the intrusion!
Update April 21, 2009. If you are interested in how to do an RSS feed for a specific category, it’s really simple – just that I had to chase a few Google rabbits down burrows and install and then uninstall a plugin that did not actually do what I wanted, before I found a simple, clear explanation- in a blog post (of course!).
For most blogs, the main RSS feed will take on this format:
http://www.example.com/feed/If you want to view the RSS feed for only a single category, visit the page for that category and add “/feed/” to the end of it. For example, the feed to the WordPress category on this blog is:
http://blog.bluefur.com/category/wordpress-wednesdays/feed/
My need was to be able to provide an RSS feed for just the new Roadmapping newsletter which will be posted on and archived at the new Roadmapping site I’ve just established.
Following the instructions above, I was able to make a category feed as follows:
http://www.roadmapping.net/category/newsletter/feed/
My understanding is that it is important to close the link with the final forward slash. There is a technical explanation but even if I understood it at the time I’ve forgotten it.
Main thing is, it works. Tested it in my BlogBridge reader and it delivered a test post without a hitch.
The purpose in making a category-specific RSS feed available is quite simply that it means the reader who is only interested in one category of post (in the case of Roadmapping, that would be getting that newsletter) doesn’t have to put up with messages on other items.
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