You may have noticed I broke my blog the other day, when I was trying to exclude some categories from the RSS feed. I have now managed to exclude the sponsored posts on my site from the feed, so it is much cleaner, nicer (less spammy), and relevant. So hop to it, follow Mikaela’s blog!

If you’re interested in how I excluded the specific categories (and how I broke it), here it is:

Firstly I just tried excluding them using the Advanced Category Excluder plugin (which works a treat for other things), but figured out the reason it wasn’t working was because I use feedburner and it doesn’t take into account the plugin settings.

I then tried to exclude the categories by editing my functions.php file. Bad idea. I’m no good at php and messed the whole site up. Luckily I had a backup at home from when I’d upgraded wordpress last week so it was an easy fix to just replace the new functions.php with the old one. But I was still at square one.

Finally I came across this tutorial at jaypeeonline.net, which (along with the helpful comments) worked beautifully.

So add the RSS feed, it’s visitor friendly now =) While you’re at it, sign up to my newsletter! I’m about to start sending out “Total Newbie Photo Tips” to help budding photographers get awesome results like this:

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