Textpattern and Feeds

by david on February 10, 2006

Michael mentioned to me today that my RSS feed had a lot of jobs in it. I thought I had properly configured Textpattern to separate my blog from my posting of Canadian UX jobs . Seems that this isn’t true.

I’ve installed “ajw-clean-feed”http://compooter.org/article/141/textpattern-plugin-ajw-clean-feed and cleaned up my .htaccess file, cleaned up my feed URI in Feedburner and have tested everything with NetNewsWire . Hopefully you should be able to subscribe to davidcrow.ca without those annoying job postings. And you can subscribe to my list of Canadian UX jobs without any of my annoying banter.

I’ve made some additional changes to the .htaccess including redirecting the query string for the old Textpattern RSS feed – http://davidcrow.ca/?rss=1 to only the blog content, i.e., no job postings, at http://feeds.feedburner.com/davidcrow/ . This was accomplished by using:

RewriteCondition {%QUERY_STRING} ^rss=1
RewriteRule ^$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/davidcrow [R=301,L]

{ 3 comments }

Gardener January 29, 2009 at 1:21 pm

Thanks, good post.

Walter September 14, 2009 at 6:47 pm

any reason why you switched from textpattern to wordpress?

davidcrow September 14, 2009 at 8:44 pm

Hi Walter,

I really liked Textpattern. It was a great CMS, I still run it for a couple of small sites. But I wanted a more accespted blogging platform. It was a long time ago I made the switch.

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