Comments on: How do I change the URI of my XML feed in Wordpress?

Question: How do I change the URI of my XML feed in Wordpress?

missed — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:59:20 -0800

How do I change the URI of my XML feed in Wordpress?

I'm moving an existing podcasting blog from Movable Type to Wordpress and need to keep the URI for the XML file (http://blah.com/index.xml) the same. Unlike MT, WP doesn't appear to be overtly obvious in how this can be accomplished? Please advise.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:20:19 -0800

Note: URL == Uniform Resource Locator

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:21:36 -0800

I meant to add: If you've been searching for "URI" in the documentation, that's why you haven't been able to find anything useful.

By: missed

missed — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:26:40 -0800

"A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI that..." (Wikipedia)

semantics aside, do you actually know how I can accomplish my question?

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:52:31 -0800

Just set up a RewriteRule in your .htaccess and 301 redirect the old URL to the new one. All properly written aggregators will recognise a 301 and store the new URL, and even those that aren't properly written will still follow the redirect.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:55:30 -0800

And, if you absolutely can't stand for a redirect, leave off the [R] at the end of the rule and Apache will do an internal redirect instead of an external one, and HTTP clients will never know that the redirect exists. But I still say a 301 is the way to go, semantically.

By: missed

missed — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:08:43 -0800

since I'm not too familiar with .htaccess files, I started hunting around, and found a WP plugin that should accomplish the same thing:

http://boren.nu/archives/2005/03/29/feed-director-plugin/