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RSS Formats Supported by WordPress

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WordPress supports four RSS formats by default1. They are:

FormatEndpoint
RSS 2.0/feed/
RSS 0.92/feed/rss/
RDF (RSS 1.0)/feed/rdf/
ATOM 1.0/feed/atom/
RSS formats supported by WordPress and their respective URLs.

WordPress uses RSS autodiscovery to declare its RSS feeds by default. However, it only declares the RSS 2.0 feed. It doesn't declare ATOM 1.0, even though it's more technically strict format.

WordPress has multiple RSS feeds by default. There is one for all articles, one for all comments; every article has its own feed for its own comments; and if a website has categories and tags, each category and tag has its own RSS feed. The RSS feed of any of these things can be accessed by adding /feed/ to the URL, e.g. if the URL path of a category is /reviews/, then /reviews/feed/ is its RSS feed URL.

A dropdown menu listing two options: "Virtual Curiosities » Feed - RSS" and "Virtual Curiosities » Comments Feed - RSS." A submenu displays two options: "Preview" and "Subscribe."
Vivaldi's dropdown menu that appears when one webpage has multiple RSS feeds associated with it. These two options should appear on all websites made with WordPress in its default settings.

WordPress redirects /rss to /feed/, /rdf to /feed/rdf/, and /atom to /feed/atom/ by default. These slugs end up being "reserved" by WordPress. If you try to create a post that has the slug rss, it becomes rss-2, atom becomes atom-2, feed becomes feed-2, and so on.

A dialog window titled "Discover feeds." It has a field "URL," value: www.virtualcuriosities.com. A button reads "Discover!" An unchecked checkbox: Recursive discovery (can take some time for bigger websites). A frame (discovered feeds). Target parent folder: Me (RSS/ATOM/JSON). Two buttons for the list: Select all, unselect all. A list with two columns, Title and Type. Six items: Virtual Curiosities (feed), type: RDF (RSS 1.0). Same title, type: RSS 2.0/2.0.1. Comments for Virtual Curiosities (feed), same type. Virtual curiosities (feed), same type. Same title and same type. Same title, type: ATOM 1.0. Two buttons: "Add single feed with advanced details" and "Import checked feeds." Two buttons at the end of the dialog: "Switch to advanced mode" and "Close."
The "Discover feeds" dialog of RSS Guard, showing feeds discovered from a URL.

References

  1. https://wordpress.com/support/feeds/ (accessed 2024-11-06) ↩︎

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