Year of the Code Monkey

I have added support for category-specific RSS feeds (actually, they were there all along; I’ve just ‘turned them on’). Each category listed in the site sidebar now has a corresponding feed icon. Simply click the icon and you’re set to subscribe to that category’s feed. I’m not entirely happy using the RSS icon here, and I may switch to using a purely text link (removing the category post count in the process).

2 Reader Comments

1. kip says: May 4, 2008 at 11:38 pm

   Two things I did with tag-specific feeds on my site that you might want to consider: 1) When the user is viewing posts for a specific category, add another link tag in the header of the page, which points to the feed for that category. 2) When a user is viewing a permalink to a single post, add link tags in the page header pointing to the category feed for each of the categories the post is filed under.

2. Jonah says: May 5, 2008 at 10:10 am

   Those are great ideas. I thought about doing something different for category archive pages, but I didn’t spend much time on it. WordPress has some funny restrictions on where you can obtain the appropriate links to category information, and I’m not sure I have access to it at the time the page header is created. I’ll definitely look into it though.

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