Comments on: Changing your WordPress RSS feed titles

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:08:54 +0000

We have a problem with out blog feed name. Do you recommend this solution in our case as well? www.best-grocery-coupon-websites.com ... every time I see our feed name it's "Comments on: Finding the best..." I'm not sure how it ever got to be such.

By: azella

azella — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:59:40 +0000

Thanks, nice workaround.

By: Joeel

Joeel — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:45:06 +0000

Corey,

I have been looking for a way to make these changes for 2 days. Found your post and was able to make some minor tweeks to make it fit to what I needed. Your post was a great and could not have come at a better time. Thank you!!!!!!

By: Corey

Corey — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:34:46 +0000

Just found a quick way to get rid of the right angle quote character. It's based on Ron's answer above.

Add this to your functions.php file in your theme:

// Fix RSS Title
function nixRaquo() {
$title = wp_title('', false);
return $title;
}
add_filter('get_wp_title_rss', 'nixRaquo', 1);

By: itauthor

itauthor — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:06:40 +0000

Glad you found it useful.
Happy New Year!

By: rxs

rxs — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:38:34 +0000

i've also found that trick, but i forgot about "echo". Thanks for post.
And Happy New Year.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:07:47 +0000

Hey, thanks for the tip Joshua - that sounds like a really useful plugin. I'll check it out.

By: Joshua Hughes

Joshua Hughes — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:47:24 +0000

Thanks for the blog post - both of these were helpful to finding a solution to a similar problem. However! You can also install a wordpress addon called 'HeadSpace' (which I highly recommend for changing page descriptions, titles, meta keywords, etc). Over at: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/ Under settings > Headspace click on Page Modules, then drag-and-drop the RSS Name module from disabled to advanced. Then click on Page Settings, then click on 'Global Settings', then click on 'advanced'. I changed the name to ": Proven Solutions for Maximum Profits" and after the feed.php code is done with it, it looks like "The BizCoach: Proven Solutions for Maximum Profits". Cheers! -Joshua Hughes -Database & Software Development -Solid Technology, Inc.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:36:08 +0000

I just realised that my feeds had switched back to "ITauthor >> Category" and eventually realised (as Ron commented above) that I'd done an upgrade, so this change had been blown away. It's a simple enough fix but annoying when WordPress upgrade come thick and fast as they have been doing recently - and especially now when it's so easy just to click-upgrade your WordPress installation.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:16:44 +0000

Ron

That's great. I've never tried writing a WordPress plugin so I was fascinated to see that it looks like it's not that hard to do. Thanks for the comment.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:09:26 +0000

I needed to do this exact thing and your blog post really helped. I did find a method of doing it that doesn't require hacking the feed.php file, so the change doesn't get blown away every upgrade. And it also handles other RSS data besides the title, like URL and description.

You can find it all in this post http://www.reactuate.com/2009/05/14/custom-rss-feed-for-a-podcast-category/

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:48:07 +0000

I've always found code snippets challenging in posts. Thanks for posting this.