WordPress Tips

This tag covers general WordPress tips related to feeds, publishing settings, and site configuration that affect how well automation tools like PostRSS can read and use a site's content. WordPress generates a default RSS feed automatically at /feed/ for every site, and PostRSS connects to that native feed directly, so no additional on-server plugin is needed and the site's own performance is unaffected. Because PostRSS runs its feed checks in the cloud rather than on the WordPress server itself, it avoids the resource drain that some self-hosted auto-posting plugins introduce during high-traffic periods. PostRSS can be pointed at a category-specific or tag-specific WordPress feed URL rather than the site-wide feed, which allows automating posting for only certain types of content. Articles here are broader than pure automation topics, covering WordPress configuration choices that indirectly improve how cleanly a feed translates into social posts. This tag is a useful supplement to the more automation-specific WordPress tags on this blog.