Find WordPress Feeds for Categories, Tags, Authors, Comments & Search

There may be all sorts of reasons why you might want to find the feed from different elements of a WordPress site – whether it’s yours or someone else’s.

• You might want to publish a feed on your site.
• You might want to follow a certain feed in a feed reader.
• You might want to submit a feed to a directory.
• You might need a feed to make a certain plugin work right.
• You might want to monitor a certain site for the appearance of a term. (VERY interesting.)
• Etc.

There are a number of ways to find your feeds, but in general, you can just add /feed/ to the end of a URL, and that should do it for you. So, for example, to find the feed to a specific category, navigate to that category, and then in the address bar, add “/feed/” to the end of it, and then navigate to that URL.

There are a few that might be a little trickier than that, and we’ll go over them. But we’ll start with the easier ones.

Note: Although I will say “add /feed/” to the end of the URL, make sure you DON’T have a double slash // in the URL. Your URL may already end with a slash.

Correct: www.example.com/feed/

WRONG: www.example.com//feed/   (See the double slash? That makes it wrong.)

Entire Site

Find the feed for your entire site. Go to the homepage, then add /feed/ to the end of the URL.

www.example.com/feed/

Individual Categories

Find the feed for a specific category. Navigate to your category, then add /feed/ to the end of the URL.

www.example.com/category/category-name/feed/

Individual Tags

Find the feed for single tags. Navigate to the individual tag page (click on the tag link), then add /feed/ to the end of the URL.

www.example.com/tag/tag-name/feed/

Individual Authors

Find the feed for specific authors. Navigate to the individual author’s page (click on their name), then add /feed/ to the end of the URL.

http://example.com/author/author-name/feed/

All Comments

Find the feed for all the comments on the site.  Type in “/comments/feed/” at the end of the homepage URL.

http://example.com/comments/feed/

Comments on a Single Post

To get a feed of the comments on one individual posts, navigate to the post, then add /feed/ to the end of the URL.

http://example.com/uncategorized/my-post-name/feed/

Feed for Search Terms

This one is a little trickier but also a little more interesting. Imagine monitoring a site just for the terms you wanted. It could save a lot of time and energy sifting through things you don’t want.

You can do that by grabbing the feed for search terms. Instead of the usual /feed/, with this one, you’ll need to add &feed=rss2 to the end of a search URL.

Or you can just add the following to the end of the main domain: ?s=searchterm&feed=rss2. You would replace “searchterm” with our actual term.

http://example.com/?s=searchterm&feed=rss2

Specific Example:

http://example.com/?s=plugins&feed=rss2

If you are searching for more than one word, add a plus sign (+) between the words: video+plugins.

http://example.com/?s=video+plugins&feed=rss2