WordPress/Feedburner expert needed

Posted on: 07-17-2007 With: 6 Comments Posted by: Bob Walsh

I give up – I’ve spent the day trying to fix the 47hats.com’s RSS feed so that full posts are there, not just the first 2 lines of each post. No luck, no joy. I’ve reinstalled the current version of wordpress, checked it out on a Mac and 2 PCs, waved garlic at my screen – nothing helps. I do know that:
- http://feeds.feedburner.com/MyMicro-isv is showing just 2 lines per post, truncating in “…”
- http://www.47hats.com/?feed=rss2 does the same thing, except if you subscribe to it in Google Reader or Apple Safari – then you get the full post for each item.
- WordPress has forgotten it has either a fancy javascript toolbar for making formatting easy when writing posts, or for that matter a button bar. That’s why this is not a formatted list. This may be an unrelated problem and I’m just being pissed on by the Gods of Technical Complexity, or it may be related.

If you have a solution, or know someone that has solved this problem, or want to make some money fast solving this problem, please email me at bobw@safarisoftware.com. Sigh.


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  1. Nick Hebb
    Nick Hebb07-17-2007

    Under “Syndication Feeds” on the /wp-admin/options-reading.php page, do you have the “For each article, show: Full Text” option selected?

  2. Bob Walsh
    Bob Walsh07-18-2007

    Hi Nick – yes I do. It goes deeper than that.

  3. alex
    alex07-18-2007

    I get the full feed with google reader.
    http://feeds.feedburner.com/MyMicro-isv

  4. Sharon Housley
    Sharon Housley07-18-2007

    Hi Bob,
    You should be able to use rss2html with your feed and it will display properly. If you need help getting it setup drop me an email.
    Sharon Housley

  5. JD
    JD07-20-2007

    Hey Bob,

    I faced the same problem. I discovered that this is a bug in WP and you can get this plugin to get the fix.

    http://cavemonkey50.com/code/full-feed/

    Good luck, let me know if that doesn’t work.

    Thanks,

  6. Stephen Cronin
    Stephen Cronin08-21-2007

    If you are getting the full post in Google Reader, then I don’t think the plugin mentioned by JD will help. I’ve written a different plugin, DualFeeds, which does the same thing as the plugin mentioned above (and gives you an extra feed with the summary), but it won’t help either.

    Actually, I think the answer is really simple. What are you using to look at the feed? If you are using Firefox, it has a built in RSS viewer that only shows you the summary. If you view the page source in Firefox (press Ctrl+U), you’ll see it’s all really there, it’s just not being shown by Firefox…

    I don’t use Safari, but I’ve been told it’s the same (and I think IE7 is as well).