pancake theorem a blog by jenn schiffer

I did some much-needed cleanup of my server over the holiday break. One of the main tasks was removing this blog into a different directory and out of a former WordPress multisite network.

While playing around with the “new” site, I did some small changes that I’ve been meaning to do for months – changes as simple as adding my post’s permalink to the end of each post in my RSS feed.

You can do it, too. Just add the following function and filters to your theme directory’s functions.php file:

<?php 
 
// add permalink to end of each RSS post
function permalinksInRSS($content) {
    $content = $content.'<p><a href="' . get_permalink() . 
'" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to \''.get_the_title().'\'">[permalink]</a><p>';
    return $content;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt_feed', 'permalinksInRSS');
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'permalinksInRSS');
 
?>

You can change “[permalink]” to whatever text you want to show. For example, my feed now says “[View this post on pancake theorem.]”

I’m assuming there may be a plugin out there that does this, but I’m not down with OPP (other people’s plugins) when it’s as simple as this snippet.

Note: If it doesn’t work after adding the code, you should refresh your blog’s cache, (and re-ping it on Feedburner if you use it).

posted January 9, 2012 3 Comments