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 2023!
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.
If you have people scraping your RSS feed, give this plugin a try.
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Thanks for the RSS Footer plugin recommendation, Daniel. I realize you posted this article a couple of years ago (based on earliest comment date) but it sounds like it is still a prudent thing to do. Thank you!
Im looking for rss plugin that i can use to put my client advertisement. I think this plugin can do that. Glad i found your site. Thanks !
This is simply a great plugin specially by the html feature is superb. Thanks for making it available for download.
Hello, I want to install on the footer of every page of my WP blog such links to the “About me”,”Contact us”,”Privacy Policy”,”Disclaimer” pages.Is this RSS Footer the solution?
Thank you!
Is there anyway to modify the output here? I’m looking for a something like:
Daniel, Thanks for sharing word about this plugin in the QandA post you answered for me.
Thanks for posting this – RSS Footer worked where other plugins had not.
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.
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!
Good find.
Finally, a decent RSS footer plugin worth using! Certainly the easiest one to use that I’ve seen around.
Somehow I think that the scrapers have a plugin that removes links to the original post
I will install this plugin
Imagine the links you’ll be getting! Nice find.
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.
Nice plugin. Do you think a blog with not a huge amount of posts should use this plugin too?
nice find… where the same dude… im very picky w/plugins..
Very cool !
i install it today !!! thanks
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).
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.
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.
Thats interesting i think i may give that a go for my SEO blog. I have been looking for a good RSS plugin.
Very neat. This is one of the plugins I might have to install. I like it keep up the good work.