How to keep Wordpress feed from displaying a category

[Aaron Stroud]

Does anyone know how to stop Wordpress from including a specific category in my feed? I'm still looking for a solution online, but I figured it wouldn't hurt ask ask seeing that we have several expert wordpress users and coders on the forum.

[Aaron Stroud]

Solution found...and it was as simple as it should be. I'm always surprised when the solution turns out to be simple, but not mentioned anywhere on the 'net...

Anyways, here's an excellent post on making 'special, hidden categories.' I wish I had discovered this article a few weeks ago. It covers several issues/problems I've already dealt with.

Here's the scoop:

One way of accessing your site's RSS feed is:

http://YourDomain.com/wp-rss2.php

All you have to do is append

?cat=-3

with "3" being the category id you want to exclude.

So, it would look like this:

http://YourDomain.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=-3

The article has a lot of extra details. It's well worth bookmarking if you intend to fool with displaying different combinations of categories at some point.

[guioconnor]

Or you can deliver a cleaner url by redirecting the address with a 301 rule on your .htaccess file

To create a feed like this
http://YourDomain.com/wp-filtered-feed

You put a rule like this

RewriteRule ^wp-rss2.php?cat=-3$ http://YourDomain.com/wp-filtered-feed [R=301,L]

Warning: Untested code!

[Simo]

I've written about how to exclude a category from your feed here: http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog/2007/10/17/how-to-exclude-a-category-from-your-blog-feed/

I tested it on my blog, and it works.

[Aaron Stroud]

Thanks for responding Simo. I actually ran across your post while searching (didn't realize it was your blog @ the time). But I'd already tried the functions.php technique...and it didn't work. So I kept searching.

That technique looks cleaner, but simply ignoring the posts in the feed query is more to my taste.

[Simo]

That's OK, Aaron, I'm glad you managed to solve it somehow. And I'm happy you found my article via search engines. It means I did a good optimization job