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How To Discover the RSS Feed URL for the Directorist Business Directory Plugin

For those not familiar with the term RSS here is a quick explanation:

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It’s an easy way for you to keep up with news and information that’s important to you, and helps you avoid the conventional methods of browsing or searching for information on websites. Websites usually use RSS feeds to publish frequently updated information, such as blog entries, news headlines, episodes of audio and video series, or for distributing podcasts. An RSS document (called “feed”, “web feed”, or “channel”) includes full or summarized text, and metadata, like publishing date and author’s name. RSS formats are specified using a generic XML file.

Most content management web sites have an RSS Feed URL for you to plug in to your RSS Reader or WordPress Widget or Content Aggregator.

For any WordPress web site the way to find an RSS Feed is pretty simple – you add /feed/ to the main site URL – e.g. https://myza.co.za/feed/ is the RSS Feed URL for MyZA.

BUT, finding the RSS Feed URL for Custom Post Types is sometimes a challenge. Custom post types are specific post types that have been added to WordPress using custom code or plugins. The idea is that you may want to add additional functionality to your site but don’t want to add everything as a standard post.

The Directorist Business Directory Plugin for WordPress uses a Custom Post Type.

Custom Post Types use a specific URL identifier and, in the case of the Directorist Plugin that identifier looks like this: ?post_type=at_biz_dir

So, in order to find the RSS Feed for the Directorist Business Directory Plugin we need to put our two commonly known URL Identifiers together with the Directorist Cutom Post Type Identifier as follows:

  1. https://myza.co.za/directory
  2. /feed/
  3. ?post_type=at_biz_dir

Putting the above three together will make the following RSS Feed URL: https://myza.co.za/directory/feed/?post_type=at_biz_dir

This will work for any Directorist RSS Feed web site, e.g.: https://yourwebsite.com/feed/?post_type=at_biz_dir

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