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

By  on  

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.

Recent Features

  • By
    Create a CSS Cube

    CSS cubes really showcase what CSS has become over the years, evolving from simple color and dimension directives to a language capable of creating deep, creative visuals.  Add animation and you've got something really neat.  Unfortunately each CSS cube tutorial I've read is a bit...

  • By
    How to Create a Twitter Card

    One of my favorite social APIs was the Open Graph API adopted by Facebook.  Adding just a few META tags to each page allowed links to my article to be styled and presented the way I wanted them to, giving me a bit of control...

Incredible Demos

  • By
    Duplicate the jQuery Homepage Tooltips Using MooTools

    The jQuery homepage has a pretty suave tooltip-like effect as seen below: Here's how to accomplish this same effect using MooTools. The XHTML The above XHTML was taken directly from the jQuery homepage -- no changes. The CSS The above CSS has been slightly modified to match the CSS rules already...

  • By
    Create Spinning, Fading Icons with CSS3 and MooTools

    A goal of my latest blog redesign was to practice what I preached a bit more;  add a bit more subtle flair.  One of the ways I accomplished that was by using CSS3 animations to change the display of my profile icons (RSS, GitHub, etc.)  I...

Discussion

    Wrap your code in <pre class="{language}"></pre> tags, link to a GitHub gist, JSFiddle fiddle, or CodePen pen to embed!