How to re-order RSS Items into custom feed – plugin?

  • Resolved Mike Smith

    (@daledubilowski)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hello – I’m looking for a way to reorder RSS items into a (separate) custom feed. This is for a daily email newsletter (RSS driven) where we need to be able to move the positioning of the stories without changing their publish dates on the actual site.

    I figured there would be a plugin that would allow me to drag / drop Post order to build a custom feed but I’ve had no luck in my searches.

    It doesn’t have to be a WordPress tool either – it could be something third party that ingests the feed, manipulated it and spits out a new feed (something like MailChimp’s chimpfeedr.com tool).

    Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

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  • Geoffrey Shilling

    (@geoffreyshilling)

    Volunteer Moderator

    I noticed you had a post called “Re-Order Posts in RSS but not on Website” that has been marked as resolved. Do you still need help with this topic or has it been resolved as well?

    Thread Starter Mike Smith

    (@daledubilowski)

    It’s only kind of been resolved. There was a plugin that was referenced on that post (https://www.nsp-code.com/wordpress-plugins/post-types-order/) that will re-order the RSS but that isn’t the main function, more of a by-product.

    Ultimately, I’d prefer something that is focused entirely on the RSS and only the RSS.

    Any suggestions?

    Thx

    Geoffrey Shilling

    (@geoffreyshilling)

    Volunteer Moderator

    I haven’t ever had to do anything like that, so unfortunately, I don’t have any ideas off-hand. I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t resolved before I spent the time searching. I will see if I can find anything and let you know.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Hey guys, I don’t know of any plugins that’ll help you, but if you want to consider a custom coded solution it’s not too complex, depending on how you want the posts ordered.

    You can order by anything accepted as a WP_Query argument, for example a custom field. Taxonomy slugs are more difficult. The approach centers around using pre_get_posts action to alter the query by adding or changing the ‘orderby’ query var — but only for feed requests.

    Thread Starter Mike Smith

    (@daledubilowski)

    Thanks @bcworkz – I’m not overly technical so instead of customizing the rss output to be used to push an email newsletter, I’ve decided to go with multiple tag-specific RSS feeds which get me to the same goal.

    https://www.example.com/tag/tagname/feed

    So my emailnewsletter will look like this

    https://www.example.com/tag/email1/feed
    https://www.example.com/tag/email2/feed
    https://www.example.com/tag/email3/feed
    Etc

    And I can choose the order of articles by managing the email1, email2, email3, etc tags from the posts dashboard. Not perfect but works well and allows the flexibility I want…

    If this doesn’t work, I’ll be back here looking for freelance developers for a custom plugin that does just this ??

    Geoffrey Shilling

    (@geoffreyshilling)

    Volunteer Moderator

    Glad to hear you have something that works, even if it’s not quite ideal.

    I haven’t heard too many people looking to do something like that, but I know it happens.

    If you are satisfied with your method, could you please mark the ticket as resolved? If not, we can keep looking.

    Thread Starter Mike Smith

    (@daledubilowski)

    Thanks for your attention to this Geoff. If I find something better, I’ll be sure to follow up. Marking as closed.

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