Hi all, looking for guidance be it specific code or best practice opinion if possible. I’m looking at the possibility of submitting my WordPress RSS Feed to Flipboard to set up a magazine. They have a list of requirements at https://flipboard.com/rss/ and there are a few I’d appreciate help / opinion on:
The feed needs all of the following:
1) The entire body copy of your article, not just headlines and summaries.
2) At least one image per article, no less than 400px in width.
3) At least 30 items.
4) Updates pushed via PubSubHubbub (preferably via Superfeedr).
1 and 3 can be adjusted in settings > reading – but does 30 seem a lot for most feeds especially as it is the only feed I use? Are other users likely to have issues with this and does switching to entire body also mean the whole post will be sent to email subscribers rather than just the summary?
2 is a content issue no problem.
4 I have found a plugin so sorted.
The other requirement I notice and the one that I have no clue how to overcome is ‘When updating the contents of an item, be sure to update the <pubDate> of that item. This is used as a signal indicating that an existing item has changed.’ I don’t believe the pubDate of the item in RSS is updated when the post is edited. Is there a way to do this. I guess I may also need to change some theme templates from ‘published’ to ‘last updated’ unless the RSS pubDate can be independent of the original published date.
Sorry I know there’s a lot there but interested in views and not sure whether anyone has been through this process before.
I was toying with the idea of setting up a unique RSS feed for this but that is a step too far for me I think.
