Comicpress RSS feed for Comics Only
WordPress has a nifty little feature that you can specify a specific category alone to show the feeds with.
(if you’re using pretty permalinks)
for example, johnn saturn’s normal feed is: http://johnnysaturn.com/feed/ – that will display the comics, the blogs and everything it can in one big open feed.
However if you want to see *just* his comic feed it would be: http://johnnysaturn.com/category/comics/feed/
That will display the feed for *just* the comics category. Give it a try on your site, like: http:// yoursite.com / category / <comicscategoryname> / feed /
My feed for Anomaly comic : http://anomaly.frumph.net/category/webcomic/feed/
I use the “webcomic” category for the comics so ^ putting that in will show just the category webcomic feed.
This works best with pretty permalinks btw. Best permalink setting is /%category%/%postname%/ if you don’t have that as the permalink then change it, cause google and yahoo and other engines *hate* the permalinks that look like dates.
– Phil
http://www.ginpu.us/category/comic/feed/
Mine don’t look like dates. They look like site/?p=xxx
How do the search engines feel about those kind?
They ignore them. Search engines will not use ‘queried’ URL’s (which is the ?p= part of that) as a practical record for using it as part of the ranking for your site.
the /?p= is not using permalink structure’s, are you unable to because of no access to your .htaccess ?
I’m using DreamHost. I haven’t found the .htaccess and have know idea what the other one is that you mentioned. Actually, I don’t know what either one is, but I’ve seen .htaccess mentioned alot at the ComicPress board.
I do everything either from the WP dashboard or a web based FTP that DreamHost mentioned when I first started.
Initially, I wanted to use the pretty Permalinks, but it seemed overly complicated for me. I might be able to revisit that now though since I’m understanding a little more (I hope). Also, I noticed plenty of webcomics who don’t use them so I figured it was no big deal However, I’m in favor of anything that can make it easier for readers to find me.
Even my feed is using the ugly http://feeds2.feedburner.com/KiddAndGeezer. I’ve seen others with a nicer version like kidddandgeezer.com/feed for example.
How do we get the raw feed, without the page formatting?
Essentially that *is* the raw feed, each browser interprets it to display.
I was wondering how to do it like Kris Straub’s Starslip (starslip.com/feed). My feed (escaworks.com/feed) is showing everything. And trying the above tip doesn’t seem to work for me. 🙁
Any help would be appreciated.
I would need to know the primary comic category name or number and yours isn’t displaying at this time so if you could pass that info to me that’d be great.
Phil,
Thank you for the quick reply.
I should have told you first that the Johnny Saturn feed link you posted doesn’t work in Google Chrome.
Second, when I try in Firefox it works, but it shows the category. Example: Johnny Saturn » Comics.
Would you mind checking pvponline.com and it’s RSS button (link is pvponline.com/feed). It redirects to the feedburner (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Pvponline).
But it’s not showing the category and it works in Google Chrome.
PS. I am aware of the RSS addon to chrome, but not everybody do.
Thanks again!
I have no idea of what you’re asking at this point, and i’m fully aware of google chrome’s inability to see RSS2 feeds ;/ Not sure what you want me to do about that, I am not a programmer for chrome…
My work around for chrome was I created a feed folder, placed an index.php which redirects it to my feedburner. I know it’s a very trashy way of doing it, but it works for now.
Thank you for ComicPress. It’s a very awesome tool that I wish people would actually give you more credit for.
Godspeed sir!
There’s a plugin to redirect to feedburner.