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Site News: Migrated to Wordpress, new RSS feed URL

This blog now runs on Wordpress. Unfortunately, the associated RSS feed URL has had to change. For the moment I’ve hacked a redirect into the Apache .htaccess to automatically redirect clients from the old RSS feed URL.

Does anyone out there know if it’s possible to get Wordpress to generate a feed for the Blosxom style "/index.rss" (in addition to the Wordpress style "/?feed=rss2" URL)?

Now that I’ve migrated all the content (kudos to Marc Nozell for the Blosxom->MT export scripts by the way), I can start looking at the rest that Wordpress has to offer.

5 Comments to Site News: Migrated to Wordpress, new RSS feed URL

1. 

   john — new pages look good! dunno how to do this thing you asked, by wouldn’t a rewite rule for the url in apache achieve similar thing? or I guess you could write a hack to gen index.rss document for you whenever something is posted.
aman on October 10th, 2005
2. 

   You could hack the WordPress source yourself to do it but it’s probably not worth it. mod_rewrite is the simplest way to resolve this.

   I use feedburner to handle my feed publishing. This means that even if you do change the URL to your feed, it does not affect your readers. There is a feedburner plugin for WordPress that makes this very easy.
Johnny K on October 11th, 2005
3. 

   Howya Johnny,
   Well I’ve put it a load of Redirect directives into the .htaccess for my categories (as Wordpress used a query with a numeric ‘cat’ attribute instead) and it all seems to be running smoothly. As for the old Blosxom date URLs (e.g. /2005/10/01…) they are still broken but that seem like waaay too much hassle to fix easily.

   As for the Apache config, I think

   Redirect oldURL newURL

   is functionally equivalent to

   RewriteRule oldURL/.*(.*) newURL [R]

   so I’ll stick with the former.

   Must look at the Feedburner plugin, though I think I need to sharpen my PHP a bit too!
aehso on October 11th, 2005
4. 

   No PHP knowledge necessary, you simply get the plugin, unzip it, copy to the wp-content/plugins directory, activate it through the admin console, and then redirect the feed from the Options -> Feedburner page. You will need to make your .htaccess file world writable when doing this.

   As for the date URL’s, you can get your current posts to follow the same pattern, if you go the Options -> Permalinks page. Set the structure to ‘/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/’ (again .htaccess needs to be writable when doing this) and that’s it. Hopefully, your new postname matches the old, and the rewrite should be simple.
Johnny K on October 12th, 2005
5. 

   mod_rewrite is as easy as anything else to be honest.
   Enjoy WP — it’s really quite good!
Justin Mason on October 13th, 2005

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