Feed Help
Posted in Tech by Dan at 4:33 pm
Ok, riddle me this…
How come my feed shows up full text in some readers and in some readers it is cut off?
The biggest offenders of cutting off a feed is the dumb .Mac reader on the iPhone and Firefox. I’m using Feedburner and am completely stumped. Any advice is welcomed. (This post WILL self destruct)
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Rich
I wish I could answer, but I second this problem. I also have the problem where the Feedburner skin sometimes shows and sometimes doesn’t (in the same browser during the same session.) I also cannot seem to get images to show in one feed, but they show fine in another… Strange.
Mar 25th, 2008
Kevin C. Tofel
I don’t use the .Mac reader on the iPhone as I’m a Google Reader man myself. However, I wonder if that reader has the same feature as the reader in Safari does. In Safari when you read feeds, you can move a slider to choose the article length shown. That would explain one possibility, but I’m just guessing.
Mar 25th, 2008
Vinny
A couple of things I would check-
1- If Wordpress is your back end, the MORE tag could be trimming the posts if the reader sees it.
2- Check the Summary Burner setting in Feedburner Optimize. If it’s active, some readers may be getting the first 200-250 words.
Mar 25th, 2008
Dave Zatz
If it’s the ‘more’ tag, there are a couple of plugins to overcome it… I use “Full Text Feed” though the author says it will no longer be needed with WP 2.5.
http://cavemonkey50.com/code/full-feed/
Mar 25th, 2008
jaredmellentine
The readers are picking up different elements of your RSS feed. Google Reader (which I use) picks up the entire post - which is located in the element. Others probably just use the element - which only contains some truncated version of the post.
Mar 25th, 2008
Dan
How do I remove elements?
Mar 25th, 2008
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