Filter RSS to registered users categories

  • John

    (@jbculpepper)


    13 years, 4 months ago

    I’m using a combination of Subscrib2 and WP-Members to update members of our organization. Each member who subscribes gets all posts. Registered users can refine their updates by category. (this is preferred as we are a cub scout pack and people only want to know about their kids den). Once I activate RSS, those folks will get everything. Is it possible to piggyback on the category preferences and have members who subscribe to the site using RSS, only get those categories that are chosen by their preference?

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  • @jbculpepper,

    I’m not sure that I understand you.

    “Once I activate RSS” – RSS is always active on WordPress. It’s accessed via the /feed/ subfolder on your site or by directly accessing the wp-rss.php files and similar in your root folder.

    @jbculpepper,

    Ah-ha! I think I just figured it out – you want to filter the RSS feed for individual users based upon the category subscriptions in Subscribe2.

    I guess this is possible but certainly not with the existing code. It would need another plugin writing really, this code would need to check if a user was logged in to your site, then pull their Subscribe2 settings and then find a way to over-write the feed links with customised feed links that contain only their selected categories.

    Thread Starter John

    (@jbculpepper)

    Hey Matt, thanks for the reply. Yes I guess activate was the wrong word. I really meant “once I provide easy links for and encourage the use of”.

    I’ve deployed Subscribe2 and the mail batching plugin and all is well on that end. I’m trying to get our members to convert to Registered users as fast as possible. The underlying success of using these tools, will be tied to the ability for every sub group (Cub Scout Den) to notify their members via a post. If someone stays at as a public Subscriber (or subscribes via RSS) then they will get everything.

    If I get the respective Den leaders to write good excerpts then getting some RSS that isn’t relevant to them isn’t so bad. Still it would be keen if a feed subscriber could use the categories as a filter but sounds like too much work and fraught with support gotchya’s. I still have much to learn about RSS and Subscribe2 when it comes to things like private posts but that’s simply a matter of taking the time to read documentation and forums.

    On a similar topic. Do you have any desire/intention to put RSS icons in your Subscribe2 widget? Would help with some real estate in the sidebar.

    Also, I’ve been working with Deborah Hanchey on subscriber workflow and that’s been useful. I can fill you in on that off-line if you like.

    Thanks again. john

    Thread Starter John

    (@jbculpepper)

    oops, that 2nd paragraph is a bit hard to follow. Sorry, too early here. Hope it is clear enough to get my point across.

    @jbculpepper,

    I’ve seen your comments via Deborah and responded, I guess she may be in touch again.

    The RSS sidebar entry is possible – paste your link into the pre-content box in the sidebar widget – I think that should work. Other than that I’m not keen in implementing this in Subscribe2 as most of my users want to offer emails instead of RSS – not as well as. For most therefore it will be redundant code and yet another option to maybe confuse.

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