How to Control Your RSS Feed’s Footer in WordPress

Customizing your WordPress RSS feed’s footer allows you to add extra information, links, or even advertisements below your post content within the feed itself. This can be a valuable way to promote your website, encourage engagement, or provide context for your subscribers.

At WPBeginner, we see this as a strategic move to drive more traffic back to our website. We can include hyperlinks to related content in our feed footer to encourage users to visit our site for further engagement. Plus, it is a great way to showcase our promotions and updates.

In this article, we will show you how to easily control your RSS feed’s footer in WordPress so that you can display the content you want.

Why Add Content to RSS Feeds Footer in WordPress?

RSS feeds offer an easier way for users to read your blog posts in their favorite feed reader apps like Feedly. However, RSS feeds can also be used by content scrapers to automatically steal your blog posts as soon as they are published.

Sometimes, these content scrapers end up ranking higher than your original post in search engines. To learn more, see our step-by-step beginner’s guide to preventing blog content scraping in WordPress.

Adding additional content to the footer of your RSS feed allows you to add backlinks to your main site and the original post at the end of each article. This can help you rank higher for your posts, even if they are copied by content scrapers.

By manipulating your RSS feed footer, you can also give your readers a way to visit your WordPress blog directly from your RSS feed.

Having said that, let’s take a look at how to easily control your RSS feed footer in WordPress. We will cover two methods:

Method 1: Add Content to RSS Feed’s Footer Using All in One SEO

This method is easier and recommended for all WordPress users. It uses the All in One SEO plugin, which is the best WordPress SEO plugin used by over 3 million websites.

First, you need to install and activate the All in One SEO plugin. For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you need to visit the All in One SEO » General Settings page and click on the ‘RSS Content’ tab.

This gives you an overview of your WordPress RSS feed settings and your WordPress RSS feed URL.

Under the ‘RSS Content Settings’, the first box allows you to add content before each post. The second box allows you to add content to the post footer.

Next, scroll down to the ‘RSS After Content’ section to edit your RSS feed footer.

Right away, you will notice that AIOSEO automatically adds credit text with backlinks to your WordPress website in the RSS feed footer.

You can either use the text as-is or you can add your own content and tags.

Don’t forget to click ‘Save Changes’ before you exit the screen.

You can now view your RSS feed to see the changes. At the end of each article, you will be able to see the content you added to your RSS feed footer.

Method 2: Manually Add Content to RSS Feed’s Footer in WordPress

This method requires you to add code to your WordPress files. If you haven’t done this before, then check out our guide on how to copy and paste code in WordPress.

You will need to copy and paste the following code in your theme’s functions.php file or add the code snippet using the WPCode plugin (recommended).

function wpb_feed_filter($query) {
if ($query->is_feed) {
add_filter('the_content','wpb_feed_content_filter');
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss','wpb_feed_content_filter');
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','wpb_feed_filter');

function wpb_feed_content_filter($content) {
// Content you want to show goes here 
$content .= '<p>Thanks for reading, check out <a href="'. get_bloginfo('url') .'">'. get_bloginfo('name') .'</a> for more awesome stuff.</p>';
return $content;
}

This code simply checks if the page requested is an RSS feed and then filters the content to display your message in the RSS feed footer.

For more details, please see our guide on how to add custom code in WordPress without breaking your website.

Expert Guides on RSS in WordPress

We hope this article helped you learn how to control your RSS feed footer in WordPress. You may also want to see some other guides related to RSS in WordPress:

• Tips to Optimize Your WordPress RSS Feed (Quick & Easy)
• How to Create Custom RSS Feeds in WordPress
• How to Completely Customize Your WordPress RSS Feeds
• How to Add Post Thumbnails to Your WordPress RSS Feeds
• How to Limit the Number of Posts in WordPress RSS Feed
• How to Make Separate RSS Feeds for Each Category in WordPress
• How to Disable RSS Feeds in WordPress
• How to Fix WordPress RSS Feed Errors (Step-by-Step Tutorial)

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