WordPress Tag Feed Plugin

Want a global network wide RSS feeds for every tag and category on your WordPress multisite or BuddyPress network?

Cool! This is a simple but powerful plugin allows you to do just that!

It creates an RSS feed for every tag and category on your network which anyone can subscribe to.

Check it out!

All you need to do is install the Post Indexer plugin and upload tag-feed.php to /wp-content/ and your new feed is created at:

 http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/tag-feed.php?tag=tag_name

Now, if someone on site1.yourdomain.com writes a post and tags or categorizes it ‘politics’ and someone on site45.yourdomain.com also write a posts and tag or categorizes it as ‘politics’
– both of their posts will appear in:

http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/tag-feed.php?tag=politics

And how would you use it?

Here’s just some examples:

Using a theme like WPMU-Dixi which pulls RSS feeds onto it’s homepage,
By adding it to a 3rd Party RSS feed widget in the side bar
By allowing readers can subscribe to it using feed readers such as Google Reader

Neato! Huh?

For help with installing plugins please refer to our Plugin installation guide.

important! :

Most plugins are uploaded to /wp-content/plugins/. This plugin MUST be uploaded to /wp-content/ using FTP.

To Use:

1. Install the Post Indexer

The Post Indexer is designed to index posts from the time it is installed on your site and needs to be installed for the tag feed plugin to work.
The Post Indexer can’t index posts that were published prior to being installed. i.e. tags and categories published on posts prior to it being installed won’t display in your tag feed.

2. Download the Tag Feed plugin file.

3. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive.

4. Upload tag-feed.php to /wp-content/

Most plugins are uploaded to /wp-content/plugins/.
This plugin MUST be uploaded to /wp-content/ using FTP.
Refer to our FTP guide if you are new to using FTP.

5. Once installed your new feed is created at:

http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/tag-feed.php?tag=tag_name.

6. You check it is working correctly by working by:

Step 1: Publishing a few new posts with the category or tag you want to create a feed.

Step 2: Checking the feed by going to the tag feed URL in your web browser.

Please note:

It can take some time for the first few posts to appear in the tag feed URL in your web browser and normally takes longer to feed through to RSS readers like Google Reader.
So if your posts don’t appear in the tag feed when first published check again in an hour.
The tag feed displays feed from public sites only. Posts from privates sites aren’t displayed.