With the Make me Feed Good add-on you can create an RSS feed for any website, even if it doesn’t publish one. It reads the titles and links from a page of the site, for example its home or its news page, and turns them into a feed that you can use in your WPeMatico campaigns or anywhere else.
- Go to Make Me Feed → Add New and give the feed a title.
- In Source index URL, paste the address of the page that lists the articles, for example
https://example.com/news/. - In Max items, set how many titles to read from that page on each run.
The feed needs to know which elements of the page contain the links of the articles. Click Inspector: it opens the source page so you can click on the titles you want, and it fills the field for you.
When you move the mouse over a title, the Inspector highlights all the titles of the page that use the same element and shows it in the Class Items field. Click on it: the Inspector adds it to the CSS classes or IDs list of your feed and closes.
You can also write them by hand in CSS classes or IDs, as you would in CSS: a class starts with a dot and an ID with #. For example, if each title is <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="…">Title</a></h2>, write .entry-title a. Check Permalink and Title to use that element for both. If the page has titles with different formats, click Add Class or ID to add more rows; repeated links are removed.
Note: If the Inspector shows a black page or the site covers it, check Deactivate scripts in Inspector in the Advanced Settings box.
If you also have the Full Content add-on, the Full Content Options box lets you check Get the full content, so each item of the feed includes the complete article, and also take the date, the author and the Open Graph image from it.
Click Publish. The RSS Feed URL Address box shows the address of your new feed. You can also open it with View under the feed title in the list of feeds. Paste that address in the Feeds box of a WPeMatico campaign.
The add-on keeps a cache of the index page and of each article to avoid reading them again and again. If you change the feed and don’t see the changes, click Refresh Cache.
