I received an email today on splitting WordPress feeds up – that is, how to make a separate feeds for a page or topic.

The easiest way by far it to put that post in a separate category, and then offer a category feed as a URL:

http://egwebsite.com/?feed=rss2&cat=1

In this case, the blog would be at the ‘root’ of egwebsite.com – it is isn’t, then change that. For example, a site based on ‘myblog’ would be more like:

http://egwebsite.com/myblog/?feed=rss2&cat=7

To get the category ID, look into the Manage;Categories section, and click on a category (or hover your mouse over the link) – the link will look something like this:

http://egwebsite.com/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=5

…and you have your category (cat_ID=5).

Now of course this isn’t without some problems:

• The feed is named the same as the regular feed – confusing for visitors, and may cause problems with some feed readers.
• Note this is for POSTS, not PAGES.
• If you’re using a RSS feed product product (like FeedBurner) you may find the feed is not available to modify (FeedBurner has a WordPress plugin that ‘hijacks’ all feeds to replace with theirs).

However, if you wish to offer a specific feed to a site (for example, product feed) this can be a way to get something out there.