How can you remove the extra RSS feeds that are displayed in your WordPress blog, in the address bar of most modern browsers? On my website, I only want to show my one RSS feed for people to subscribe to. I don’t want to display the comment feed or the separate feed for a category. For me, showing too many RSS feeds is confusing to a novice user. So here is how you can turn off the extra feeds (such as category feeds) in WordPress.
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Remove Extra Feeds in WordPress
10 Wonderful Web Site Widget Resources
There are many services out there that offer widgets you can embed into your own web site layouts. How do you know which ones are the best? Well, I am not an expert. Since this is the Internet though, I can pretend.
Here are my top 10 favorite widget related web sites.
Widgetbox – Tons of free widgets to put on your site.
LinkWithin – Post related stories and thumbnails on your web site.
ShoutMix – Free shoutbox/tagboard chat widget.
Create a Feed for Anything, Anytime, Anywhere!
RSS feeds are extremely handy when it comes to keeping up with the latest and greatest updates from a web site. However, even today, there are still some web sites that are feed-less. To help you track those web sites out there, we have RSSA, Really Simply Syndicate Anything.
All you do is enter the web site URL into the text box, and hit submit. You will then be given several options on which content you would like to grab. This web site also comes in handy if you don’t know how to create a feed – but you think you need one for your visitors.
Check out the many more reasons on why you should create a feed, and then get started with this online tool today.
Merge Multiple Feeds with FeedStitch
Have multiple RSS feed sources that you would like to merge into one? There are a number of different services that can get this done for you, however FeedStitch is a new one that has caught my eye recently.
What is new here? Well they cover the basics, for sure. With HTML, RSS, and JSON they make it easy to republish the data however you want. To get started, all you have to do is select your feed type, and click “Add Feed”. You can also store your feeds in manually created groups too. The feed types they support right now are:
- RSS Feeds
- Twitter Accounts
- Flickr Photos
- Delicious LInks
- Twitter Search
- Tumbler Micro Blogging
- and GitHub
To use the service, all you need to do is login with a pre-existing Google, Facebook, or some other open identification service, and get to adding your feeds. It is really easy to use, and might be my new favorite service for merging multiple feeds into one. You can try it out for yourself at FeedStitch.com.
Mix Multiple Feeds into One
FeedMingle is an interesting tool that will combine multiple feeds into one to produce a combined RSS, Atom, JSON, or widget. This can come in handy when you need to track multiple feeds, however you would like to have them all in one general location.
The tool itself is easy enough to use. No need to login for now. All you do is plug your feeds into the web site, and you are done. For example, I merged together the feeds for the Web Hosting Show, Firefox Facts and Mitchelaneous into one super Mitch-loving feed here:
The widget that the script produces (which could be copied and pasted onto your own site or profile) is a little on the simple side – but there is still plenty of room for improvement.
Overall, FeedMingle is worth giving a shot if you need to merge multiple feeds into one huge feed. It is there to make life simpler for web designers, developers, feed readers, bloggers or anybody else who may need a new way to deliver their content. I am very excited to see what they do with this service down the road.
2 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feed Subscriptions
Are you one of those people out there that finds themselves addicted to finding really cool RSS feeds that you really don’t have the time to read? I know I am – so when searching for a way to filter through my feeds I am subscribed to to get out the most important stuff out of them I found two great tools to get the job done.
Feed Rinse – The job of Feed Rinse is to filter out syndicated content that you just are not that interested in checking out. They call it a spam filter for your RSS feed subscriptions. To use it, all you do is import your feeds, setup your filters and then enjoy your new “cleaner” results. Also, if you have checked them out before and didn’t want to pay for the service, you no longer have to. The premium service is now free.
Feedscrub – How does Feedscrub clean help you trim your subscription list down? Also working on a filter-based system, Feedscrub listens to you when you tell them what posts you do and don’t like, and then learns from your input what to do and how to filter. This allows you to get right to the good stuff you want to read about.
Of course, if you are looking for a few RSS feeds, I am sure you would be happy with these to start off with or to add to your collection:
- http://feedproxy.google.com/mitchelaneous
- http://feedproxy.google.com/webhostingshow
- http://feedproxy.google.com/firefoxfacts
Both Feedscrub and Feed Rinse offer great ways to filter through the noise when it comes to the feeds you are subscribed to. I would suggest trying both out and see which one works best for you.
Merry Christmas from Mitchelaneous
Christmas has even made it’s way over to Mitchelaneous.com – and who would have guessed I’d pass up the chance to call it Mitch-mas. 
For all of you I have two very special presents – a couple of my other side projects you may or may not know that much about. I wanted to take a minute or two of your time so that you could check them out, and if you like them as much as you like Mitchelaneous – feel free to subscribe there too. Merry Christmas!
The Web Hosting Show is my weekly podcast on and about the wacky world of web hosting. From news, to help and even some shopping tips – I like to help people get the most out of their hosting accounts – while having a little fun along the way.
My Favorite Web Hosting Show Posts of the Year:
- 5 Best Ways to Search Rapidshare, Megaupload and More! (plus 4 More Ways)
- Free eBook – Best of the Web Hosting Show Guides
- How to Trace Route (on Windows and Mac) (and the Video Walkthrough)
- Podcast Archives – 175+ Web Hosting Podcasts to Learn From!
- Talking Data Protection with R1Soft – Episode 139
You can subscribe to WebHostingShow.com for free by plugging the RSS feed into your favorite news reader of choice. Here are a few subscription buttons to help you in that process:
Firefox Facts is my daily blog about all things relating to Firefox. It started out as an e-book project, but has expanded by leaps and bounds since then. Find reviews for useful extensions, great looking Firefox themes and a whole lot more. I even toss in an occasional roundup of the best tools for this, that and the other. If you use Firefox, you need to subscribe.
My Favorite Firefox Facts Posts of the Year:
- Darkest Popular Themes for Firefox 3 (also have the lightest)
- Freshest Top 10 YouTube Greasemonkey Scripts
- Change the Default Search in Firefox
- 25 Tweaks for Your Firefox Statusbar (also 25 more tweaks too)
- Give Firefox 3 Firefox 2′s Address Bar
You can subscribe to FirefoxFacts.com for free by plugging the RSS feed into your favorite news reader of choice. Here are a few subscription buttons to help you in that process:
Thanks to all my visitors and free RSS feed subscribers for keeping this rambling side project of mine fun to do. This November was the 5 year anniversary of Mitchelaneous.com, and hopefully we will have many more years to come.
Feeds in Your Inbox
FeedMyInbox is a new service that recently caught my eye, due to the fact they make things very simple. They are offering you blogs, feeds and news delivered magically to your e-mail inbox. All you have to do is visit the web site and enter a web site RSS feed and your e-mail address.
Here is how FeedMyInbox explain the process:
Once you find a feed you would like to subscribe to, simply type in the web address (URL) for the site on FeedMyInbox.com. We will find the feed(s) available on the page, and you can select what you want to subscribe to. Once you subscribe to a feed, we will send an email to the address you specified. Simply click the link that is enclosed to confirm that your email address is correct, and you are all set!
It is an interesting service, to say the least.
Of course, if you want to get my feed in your inbox, that is easy enough to do without this service. Just click this link to subscribe to e-mail updates, so you never miss a post.
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