Script & Style Exclusive: Add Custom Values To Your WordPress RSS Feed

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My duties at Script & Style have led me to writing an exclusive article about how you can add custom variables to your RSS feed. From the article:

As most of you probably know, Script & Style was created by myself, David Walsh, and CSS-Tricks scribe Chris Coyier. We were both looking to create widgets for our website that would provide not only a link to the article submission page on Script & Style but also a direct link to the full article on the author's domain. Since we were reading in the RSS feed to grab articles and links, we needed to add a custom XML key/value to the RSS feed so that we could retrieve the direct link URL. Here's how we did it.

Jump over to Script & Style to check out the full article.

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