Social Notes: include in RSS feed

[jeherve]

Impacted plugin

Social

What

It would be nice if Social notes were automatically added to a site's RSS feed, alongside regular posts

How

I believe we should be able to hook into request to make that happen.
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/request/

This was requested here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1ipruo3/how_to_include_social_notes_in_rss_feed/

For now I've shared this workaround to implement it via a functionality plugin:

/**
 * Add posts from the Social Notes CPT (added via the Jetpack Social plugin) in main RSS feed.
 *
 * @param array $query_vars The array of requested query variables.
 *
 * @return array
 */
function jeherve_add_social_notes_rss( $query_vars ) {
    if (
        isset( $query_vars['feed'] )
        && ! isset( $query_vars['post_type'] )
    ) {
        $query_vars['post_type'] = array( 'post', 'jetpack-social-note' );
    }

    return $query_vars;
}
add_filter( 'request', 'jeherve_add_social_notes_rss' );

[jeherve]

cc @kraftbj for his opinion, as an active user of Social Notes.

[github-actions]

OpenAI suggested the following labels for this issue:

• [Feature Group] Content Management: The issue pertains to managing content, specifically how social notes are incorporated into the RSS feed.
• [Feature] Posts: The request is to enhance the functionality of posts by including social notes in the RSS feed.
• [Feature] Social Media Integration: The focus is on social notes, which are related to integrating social features into the site's content.

[kraftbj]

I dig the idea of it. I would not do it by default and make it an option (or a bool filter if we don't want UI). Thinking out loud about folks who have RSS->email things setup or other things assuming the division between CPTs will exist.

I have wonder if there was a way to merge CPTs for the sake of RSS feeds, but haven't looked into it. Personally, I'm dogfooding SCF on my personal site for a photo CPT with my home page displaying the latest Social Note, Photo CPT, and then a grid of my latest longform regular post posts. But that is outside the scope of Jetpack :)