Label Feeds in Blogger


I am sure many users out there admire the myriad plugins and functionalities of WordPress. I am one of those admirers.

I especially like that there's a WordPress plugin for category feeds, or label feeds. It's not immediately apparent that the same is available in Blogger, since it's never promoted, but you can actually get label feeds in Blogger.

Why would you be interested in label feeds? Many reasons:

  1. Letting readers subscribe to a selected category
  2. Placing the latest posts from a category onto your sidebar
  3. Styling your blog into a magazine layout
  4. Creating label widgets for iGoogle

And you can probably think up more creative ways to use category feeds. These are just some of the few reasons I went looking for the label feeds in Blogger, and so far I've used #2 and #4, but quickly abandoned #2 because my sidebar looks busy enough as it is.

So how do you get the Blogger label feeds? It's pretty simple. First, you have to make sure that your Site Feed is turned on. To do that, your blog's Settings -> Site Feed -> Allow Blog Feeds -> Full. You can also use Short, if you don't like offering full feeds. But don't use None.

Now, if you have a regular Blogspot URL like such:

http://yourblog.blogspot.com

Then your default posts feed is this:

http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/

But you probably know (and use) that already. To get the feed for an individual label, just add an -/labelName to the end of your default feed. So, for example you have a label Technology, the resulting feed would be:

http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/Technology

A note to remember is that the feeds are case sensitive, so this feed:

http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/technology

…won't work.

Now let's say you have a label like this: Things I Like. Just replace the spaces with a %20, so your feed should look like this:

http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/
Things%20I%20Like

Again, be aware of the cases.

Say you have a customized domain like mine. This is my URL:

https://www.randomdetox.com

The rules are the same, you just change the prefix of your feeds. So, an example of my label feeds are the following:

https://www.randomdetox.com/feeds/posts/default/-/Lost
https://www.randomdetox.com/feeds/posts/default/-/Gossip%20Girl

There! Now that you know, make good use of the feeds! 🙂

Oh and if you're interested, here are some of my label feeds you might like to subscribe to:

Pop Culture


Manny Pacquiao

Ugly Betty

Tech Stuff

Blogging
Tech
Tutorial

Travel Stuff

Pacific
Dakak
Dapitan
Dipolog
Philippine Airlines
Travelogue

Zest Airways

Other Stuff


Free Stuff
Personal

Oh yeah, and here's how my iGoogle looks like.

How might you use label feeds from Blogger? Leave a comment!

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