{"id":16809,"date":"2020-03-01T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T11:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danq.me\/?p=16809"},"modified":"2020-03-01T11:58:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T11:58:45","slug":"post-kinds-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danq.me\/2020\/03\/01\/post-kinds-rss\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Post Kinds in WordPress RSS Feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I use the Post Kinds plugin<\/a> to streamline the management of the different types of posts I make on my blog, based on the IndieWeb post types list<\/a>: articles<\/a>, like this one, are “conventional” blog posts, but I also publish notes<\/a> (which are analogous to “tweets”), reposts<\/a> (“shares” of things I’ve found online, sometimes with commentary), checkins<\/a> (mostly chronicling my geocaching\/geohashing<\/a>), and others: I’ve extended Post Kinds to facilitate comics<\/a> and reviews<\/a>, for example.<\/p>

But for people who subscribe (either directly or indirectly<\/a>) to everything<\/em> I post, I imagine it must be a little frustrating to sometimes be unable to identify the type<\/em> of a post before clicking-through. So I’ve added the following code, which I’m sharing here and on GitHub<\/a> in case it’s of any use to anybody else, to my theme’s functions.php<\/code>:<\/p>

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\/\/ Make titles in RSS feed be prefixed by the Kind of the post.<\/span>\r\nfunction<\/span> add_kind_to_rss_post_title<\/span>(){\r\n\t$kinds<\/span> =<\/span> wp_get_post_terms( get_the_ID(), 'kind'<\/span> );\r\n\tif<\/span>( !<\/span> isset<\/span>( $kinds<\/span> ) ||<\/span> empty<\/span>( $kinds<\/span> ) ) return<\/span> get_the_title(); \/\/ sanity-check.<\/span>\r\n\t$kind<\/span> =<\/span> $kinds<\/span>[0<\/span>]-><\/span>name<\/span>;\r\n\t$title<\/span> =<\/span> get_the_title();\r\n\treturn<\/span> trim( \"[<\/span>{<\/span>$kind<\/span>}<\/span>] <\/span>{<\/span>$title<\/span>}<\/span>\"<\/span> );\r\n}\r\nadd_filter( 'the_title_rss'<\/span>, 'add_kind_to_rss_post_title'<\/span>, 4<\/span> ); \/\/ priority 4 to ensure it happens BEFORE default escaping filters.<\/span>\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>
This decorates the titles of my posts, but only in my feeds, so it’s easier for people to tell at-a-glance what’s going on:<\/p>
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Down the line I might expand this so that it doesn’t<\/em> show if the subscriber is, for example, asking only<\/em> for articles (e.g. via this feed<\/a>); I’m coming up with a huge list of things I’d like to do at IndieWebCamp London<\/a>! But for now, this feels like a nice simple improvement to a plugin I love that helps it to fit my specific needs.<\/p>
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