Thread: Vantage RSS Feeds for Listings, Blog & Events

Vantage RSS Feeds for Listings, Blog & Events

Hi

I'm trying to figure out how to get my RSS feeds working properly, if anyone has some suggestions. Here's the site: http://www.swflpets.com

Here's what I've found so far by looking through the forum, hope its helpful to someone and that I didn't miss too much, but the search says "vantage rss" and "vantage feed" etc are too common and it won't search them.

First, it seems the default feed only shows listings
http://www.swflpets.com/feed/

To get the blog posts feed, you need to use
http://www.swflpets.com/feed/?post_type=post

To get events feed, you need to use
http://www.swflpets.com/feed/?post_type=event

To specify the listings feed, you need to use
http://www.swflpets.com/feed/?post_type=listing

However, it seems that the event and listing feeds show items in the same order as in your settings for "home page" display under events and listings.

If you use the default feed, not specifying the post type, it appears to show listings in the order they were published, newest first. Or maybe I'm caching something? At least that's what I'm seeing.

So when you add a new event, if the default sort order for the home page is in order of events which date's are closest to today, that will be the same in the feed. Your newly added event may be down the list (or not even show if you have a lot of events, more than your setting of how many to include in the feed) because they are not added to the feed via pubdate.

What I'd like to get is a feed of the listings and events, where the newest published on is first, but still maintain the home sort order differently, like closest to date event first, and top rated listings first.

Any ideas on how to do this, or a plugin that lets you order your RSS feed items separately?

Thanks!