[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #49321: provide standard pagination links in RSS/Atom feeds

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#49321: provide standard pagination links in RSS/Atom feeds
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 Reporter:  jameysharp   |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Feeds        |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
  Focuses:               |
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 Since feeds use the same query parameters as the rest of WordPress, it's
 already possible to get RSS/Atom-format lists of older posts in addition
 to the newest 10 (or whatever `posts_per_rss` is set to). However, a
 client has to know it's looking at a WordPress-generated feed, and
 manually construct the right paginated feed URLs.

 I'd like WordPress to implement the Atom pagination links standardized in
 2007 by [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5005 RFC 5005], which also has an
 appendix on using them in RSS.

 I've written a plugin demonstrating how to do this in a spec-conformant
 way (https://github.com/jameysharp/wp-fullhistory). The spec requirements
 that enable aggressive caching in feed readers make the "obvious" ways to
 do this not work, but the plugin is still quite simple. I've included
 extensive comments if you're interested in the details, and the plugin
 passes WordPress coding standards 2.2.0. But PHP isn't one of the
 languages I normally use, so I'd certainly appreciate code review.

 I brought this up in the forums a while back
 ([https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-rfc5005-support-to-wordpress-
 generated-rss-feeds/ post]) and got very helpful starting points from
 Samuel Wood, but my current implementation is much simpler than I had
 thought it would be.

 I've considered just encouraging people to use the plugin, rather than
 trying to get this standard supported in core. But there already aren't
 very many WordPress users who know what RSS is, let alone understand
 extensions. (I surveyed several dozen webcomic creators, in particular.)

 So for the same reasons that it's good for the open web that WordPress
 just automatically provides feeds, I hope you'll automatically provide
 standard pagination in those feeds too.

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