Modifying RSS feed templates

  • Hi … I run a publishing project that pushes our latest content each week to Mailchimp. Mostly works fine, but I’d like to modify the output to have more control over how the feed looks. Mailchimp gives me some options, but I need to do more.

    When I look at the feed itself (using BBEdit), I can see the stuff I want to work on, so it seems promising.

    But I need to locate the RSS template and experiment with it a bit to see how this could work (backing it up first, of course!) …

    However, I can’t find where the feed template lives …

    Any advice on where that may be?

    Also, is this the best way to modify the template? There’s a plugin that claims to enable RSS template editing, but it costs $$$.

    Thank you!

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  • RSS is a generic term for a range of different XML formats with a clearly defined structure. WordPress generates these XML structures for you. You do not have to and should not change anything. This is because any changes could prevent the generated XML from deviating from the standard and no longer being read by readers.

    However, there are a few hooks that you can use to influence the output. These are mainly of a content-related nature. See: https://gist.github.com/egstad/1c5ac32618ec6fc61588

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