RSS Footer WordPress Plugin

I confess that I am a bit cranky when it comes to WordPress plugins. I use as few as possible (to not compromise my WP install), and I also tend to like some old school plugins that were released years ago. My plugin of choice for adding a link to my RSS feed, for instance, was the sig2feed one. I started using it early in 2006!

Recently, however, more people started scraping Daily Blog Tips, so I felt that it was necessary to add not only a link back to the blog, but also a link back to the original post. This should help Google to identify my original articles more easily and quickly.

When I tried to use sig2feed for this purpose, however, I found that it was not capable of (not without a good deal of PHP tweaking at least), so I decided to find a new RSS feed footer.

RSS Footer is the name of the plugin created by Joost de Valk, and it gets the job done perfectly. Basically it allows you to insert any message or link on the footer of your feeds, and it also comes with a check box that you simply need to tick if you want a link back to the original article.

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If you have people scraping your RSS feed, give this plugin a try.

Daniel Scocco on June 3, 2008 Subscribe to our RSS Feed

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22 Responses to “RSS Footer WordPress Plugin”

Mac Tips on June 3rd, 2008 7:22 pm

Very neat. This is one of the plugins I might have to install. I like it keep up the good work.
SEO Genius on June 3rd, 2008 7:41 pm

Thats interesting i think i may give that a go for my SEO blog. I have been looking for a good RSS plugin.

Thanks
Abhijeet from Jeet Blog on June 3rd, 2008 8:23 pm

Excellent find Daniel ! I used to think that sig2feed is the only such plugin and even I wanted to add the post backlink. This plugin will solve the problem.
Rob Williams on June 3rd, 2008 8:50 pm

I was using this but, I know this is odd, it broke the category feeds. Normally that’s no big deal, but I’m using a category feed for email subscriptions.
Scott Fillmer on June 4th, 2008 12:22 am

Thanks for the plugin plug… I had not seen that one yet, I will have to check it out (as long as it doesn’t break the feeds).
lomig on June 4th, 2008 3:30 am

Very cool !
i install it today !!! thanks
Melvin on June 4th, 2008 3:33 am

nice find… where the same dude… im very picky w/plugins..
Miguel Cangueiro on June 4th, 2008 5:53 am

Nice plugin. Do you think a blog with not a huge amount of posts should use this plugin too?
Michael on June 4th, 2008 9:00 am

Sounds like a great little plugin, I’ve been using Feed Footer for adding a footer to my RSS feed items but this plugin may make me switch.
Rajaie AlKorani on June 4th, 2008 10:22 am

Imagine the links you’ll be getting! Nice find.
Satish Gandham on June 5th, 2008 1:18 am

I will install this plugin
Marios Alexandrou on June 6th, 2008 9:27 am

Somehow I think that the scrapers have a plugin that removes links to the original post
EnviroGadget on June 6th, 2008 10:53 am

Finally, a decent RSS footer plugin worth using! Certainly the easiest one to use that I’ve seen around.
Sumesh from BlogCreativity on June 7th, 2008 11:26 am

Good find.

I’d seen this linkback technique for a long time on labnol.org, and Google also recommends doing this (and goes so far as to say that a link back is enough to distinguish from spam). Unfortunately I was too lazy to find a plugin to do this, until now.
Satollo on June 11th, 2008 10:36 am

Try feed layout wordpress plugin, and let me know if it can be a useful plugin to manipulate the feed. I’m the author and I’m using it to add a copyright notice on every post delivered via feed but it can do much more… hope it can be of any help!
Ellie on June 18th, 2008 1:23 am

This is an incredibly useful plugin. I wish that there was a way for me to tweak the code to make it say: “You are reading:” before the permalink to the post.
Mark Wilson on September 7th, 2008 9:17 pm

Thanks for posting this - RSS Footer worked where other plugins had not.

Has anyone found a way to make the post backlink appear within the HTML code supplied for the footer? (instead of below it)