RSS Control

RSS Control is a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to control and customize your RSS feeds through URL query parameters. These work on all feed types including the main feed, category feeds, tag feeds, and more. Free features include filtering by category, tag, post type, date range, post IDs, and offset. You can also control excerpts, display featured images with custom styling, and include post titles in descriptions. Premium features add support for custom taxonomy filtering, specialized feed formats (Google Publisher Center, Google News Showcase, NextDoor, Meta Commerce), call-to-action buttons, primary category output control, custom sort ordering, and a visual Feed URL Generator in the admin.

Upload plugin through Admin > Plugins > Add New or upload directly to /wp-content/plugins via FTP and activate. Once activated, you can find the plugin settings under Tools > RSS Control.

4.0.0

• FEATURE - Added post_type parameter for filtering by custom post types
• FEATURE - Added indexed taxonomy parameters (taxonomy_1 through taxonomy_10) for multiple simultaneous taxonomy filtering
• PREMIUM FEATURE - Added Meta Commerce feed type for Meta Shopping campaigns
• PREMIUM FEATURE - Added meta_price and meta_currency parameters for Meta Commerce feeds
• PREMIUM FEATURE - Added TagDiv Primary Category Filter (td_primary_cat parameter)
• PREMIUM FEATURE - Added Primary Category Output Control (only_primary_category parameter) with support for TagDiv, Yoast SEO, and RankMath
• BUG FIX - Fixed tag parameter not working with tag IDs (now uses tax_query approach)
• BUG FIX - Fixed category_name parameter causing 404 errors
• BUG FIX - Fixed category_name dropdown to use slugs instead of IDs
• BUG FIX - Fixed empty channel link in custom feed templates (GPC, Nextdoor, Meta Commerce) caused by Yoast SEO filter conflict
• UPDATE - Moved admin interface from Settings menu to Tools menu
• UPDATE - AJAX-powered dropdowns with search capability in feed builder
• UPDATE - Indexed taxonomy filter support
• UPDATE - Major architecture overhaul and code optimization
• UPDATE - Upgraded all composer dependencies
• UPDATE - Improved excerpt_length test reliability

3.0.16

• PREMIUM FEATURE - Fixed bug where if using post_image_size it would duplicate the images in the content.

3.0.15

• PREMIUM FEATURE - Added a specific feed for NextDoor News
• PREMIUM FEATURE - Added in new filter rss_control_include_media_namespaces which returns true by default, but if there are other plugins like RankMath that include the media namespaces you can disable this.
• UPDATE - Added additional fallback logic for posts that did not have a featured image.

3.0.14

• UPDATE - Updated all third-party vendor packages

3.0.13

• FEATURE - Added in the option to generate a rss feed based on specific posts

3.0.12

• FEATURE - Added option to pass category slugs into query string in addition to category IDs.
• UPDATE - Updated all third-party libraries.

3.0.11

• UPDATE - Updated all third-party libraries.

3.0.10

• UPDATE - Updated all third-party libraries.

3.0.9

• FEATURE - Added in Google News Showcase support for Premium users.

3.0.8

• UPDATE - Updated third-party vendor libraries to latest versions.

3.0.7

• FEATURE - Added ability to filter posts just for current month.
• FEATURE - Added images as media elements

3.0.6

• UPDATE - Removed the source=news.google.com parameter from GPC feeds as Google now no longer allows this.

3.0.5

• FEATURE - Added ability to change the order and order by values
• FEATURE - Added the ability to remove the excerpt
• UPDATE - Updated to latest version of vendor packages

3.0.4

• UPDATE - Google Analytics will not track encoded UTM variables, and without encoding the variables the RSS feeds will be invalid, so we are forced to remove the UTM tracking from feed URL and replace with a single ?source=news.google.com instead.

3.0.3

• BUG FIX - Updated UTM parameters in feed URLs to not be encoded. Previously urls with UTM variables were being encoded which didn't allow for them to be picked up properly.

3.0.2

• BUG FIX - Fixed issue with image_thumbnail_size on edge case setups.

3.0.1

• BUG FIX - Fixed issue when using tag__not_in and category__not_in.

3.0.0

• UPDATE - Major Overhaul includes updated how-to section and optimized code.
• FEATURE - Implemented RSS Feed URL Generator for Premium Users
• UPDATE - Updated all vendor libraries to their latest versions

2.0.12

• UPDATE - Automatically append UTM variables to permalinks when using the GPC feed type.
• UPDATE - Updated third-party vendor libraries.

2.0.11

• UPDATE - Updated admin help docs to include link to urlencoder.org
• UPDATE - Added a default 10px margin top to email buttons.

2.0.10

• FEATURE - Added the ability to filter feed by custom taxonomies
• FEATURE - Added the ability to include a button to rss excerpts
• UPDATE - Updated to latest Freemius SDK

2.0.9

• FEATURE - Added the ability to specify type of feed for Google Publisher Console.
• FEATURE - Added in extra options for GPC feeds, namespaces, media elements, and full content

2.0.8

• UPDATE - Updated to the latest Freemius SDK

2.0.7

• UPDATE - Updated to the latest Freemius SDK

2.0.6

• UPDATE - Updated to the latest Freemius SDK
• BUG FIX - Fixed php warnings messages

2.0.5

• UPDATE - When displaying title in description include the permalink to link back to post
• BUG FIX - Adjusted priority on filter to account for when excerpt length and title in description are both active.

2.0.4

• FEATURE - Added in ability to include title in description
• FEATURE - Added in ability to change tag wrapping title
• FEATURE - Added in ability to apply inline styles to title tag
• UPDATE - Updated to latest Freemius SDK

2.0.3

• FEATURE - Added in ability to set the excerpt length
• FEATURE - Added in ability to set the more text when excerpts get truncated

2.0.2

• Implemented Freemius

2.0.1

• Initial WP.org version created and pushed to public