more tag and RSS – how to?

  • Resolved nicknormal

    (@nicknormal)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    hi there. I think what I’m wanting to do is simple, and I just cannot find a solution for it.

    99% of my feeds are FULL, meaning everything of importance (text, images, etc.) are displayed correctly in the RSS feed – I use Google Reader.

    However every now and then I want to include something that won’t embed or display in RSS, or I want to direct my audience to the original post. I thought I could use the <!–more–> tag, but this does not work. I want the text/images/content after the <!–more–> tag to NOT appear in RSS. And instead want to use this:

    <!–more additional images after the break–>

    to force people to click through to the original post. the text “additional images after the break” displays on the front page (index.php) but not in RSS.

    how to get that text, or some other text, to display in RSS? and also how to get the content following <!–more–> to NOT appear in RSS?

    thanks.
    Nick

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  • admin – Settings – Reading
    set the rss to show “summary”
    this follows the more tag

    Thread Starter nicknormal

    (@nicknormal)

    okay, that’s sort of what I thought should happen, but on my end the more tag is cutting off the post prematurely.

    It’s inserting “[…]” in RSS, in one instance at the 55 word/344 character mark; 52 words or 276 characters before my inserted <!–more–> tag.

    When I set admin->settings->reading to “full” the entire post shows up in RSS, including what is after <!–more–> which sometimes contains elements that do not work in RSS (javascript, iframe, etc.) and I want to use <!–more–> to direct people to the original post.

    Does that clarify the specific problem I’m having? Thanks for any advice!

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Customizing_the_Read_More

    Thread Starter nicknormal

    (@nicknormal)

    gotcha!

    the post has to be duplicated in the_excerpt()’s box in the respective post, else it automatically cuts off at 55 words.

    that’s the definition I was looking for! I get it now.

    thanks samboll

    hmm
    I have the same problem as nicknormal had, but I can’t get to solve it since I don’t get the meaning of his last post.
    So, what is the solution? I keep on modyfing feed-rss2.php, modifying the if then else structure, adding
    <?php the_content("...continue reading the story called " . get_the_title('', '', false)); ?>

    instead of

    <?php the_content() ?>

    OR

    <?php the_excerpt_rss() ?>

    but it doesn’t work.

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