Wordpress : How to use the more tag and display the full content in your RSS Feed
Before i proceed with this article i just have to let all Blogging Tips subscribers know – all posts here will be in full. No posts will be split with the more tag from now on
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David Culpepper from PureBlogging recently did a review of Blogging Tips. He said that
Some of Kevin’s posts are very long so I certainly understand the use of the more tag to split his posts up. Unfortunately for feed readers like myself, the more tag is not feed friendly and may cost him a few subscribers in the long run. I would suggest either not using the more tag or installing Full Text Feed, a plugin that prevents Wordpress from adding the more link to your feed.
I like to use the more tags for a few reasons. The main one is for search engine optimisation. It ensures that the full article isnt posted on several pages on your site (eg different categories, index, archives and the actual post). It also splits up the long guides that i have written – some of these posts are pretty long and if you are not interested in the topic it would be a bit of a pain to have to scroll all the way down to get past it.
I did realise that it would also cut the feed but i didnt think it would be a major problem. Mainly because im one of those weirdos who uses his feed reader to see the latest posts and then just opens the post in a new page instead of reading it through the reader (what i do is open the posts i wanna read in the background tabs in opera). My aim has never been to force people to go to the main site (im happy if the feed stats keep going up haha).
The first thing i did was check out my wordpress.php file. Around line 27 you’ll see the function the_content_rss and there are 1 or 2 references to the more tag.
It wasn’t until Arpit Jacob said that i could use the_Excerpt instead of the the_content function in index.php etc that i realised this could be done without any major hacks to the wordpress files.
I tried out the excerpt function in my test blog. It worked but hardly the way i hoped. Images were removed, text was all crushed up and the front page post was cut off after 55 words before a link to the rest of the article was placed. I searched through wordpress.org and saw that i could edit this figure. I changed the $excerpt_length from 55 to 200 in the formatting.php file. A little better but still not good – the text was still all crushed up and images etc were removed. It was pure ugly if im honest.
Excerpt Plugins
After more playing around i came across a few plugins which improved what was displayed in the excerpt. Namely The Excerpt Reloaded and the content extract plugin. Both improved what i was trying to do but neither did exactly what i wanted it to do.
The search continued.
Leave More Tag and never show your ugly ass in our RSS Feed again!!
I eventually found a plugin on a german wordpress site called FH more killer. The plugin simply removes the more tag from rss feeds. The more tag is still used on the blog but rss readers will see the full post.
Those of you at the front of the class who are paying attention will realise that David Culpepper actually suggested a plugin which did exactly what i needed called full text feed. I’ve got absolutely no idea how i missed that link but regardless, a huge thank you to David from Pure Blogging for posting the link for me – much appreciated 
The more tag on Blogging Tips
If you are like me and want to split up your posts but not cut off posts from feed readers, the two plugins i mentioned above should help you out if you have a wordpress blog.
I am going to continue to use the more tag to break up long posts here to make browsing older articles cleaner however i hope regular feed readers here are happy that they can now see all of the post without having to follow an external link from their feed reader
Thanks,
Kevin
Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes ClubPosted on May 9th, 2007 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Oops I should have mentioned the The Excerpt Reloaded Plugin too. But I guess once you found out about the Excerpt function it logical to get hold of the The Excerpt Reloaded Plugin
. Anyways all the best with your theme.
thanks arpit – i appreciate the advice you gave
This is an interesting article as it draws attention to the readers that are easy to forget about – the feed readers!
- Martin Reed
thanks martin. Love your blog theme. very well designed
Interesting and informative!
Cheers!
Mani
Hello, Kevin.
I have a hard time creating the automatic “Read more” link in the category page. I do use the more tag in the posts, but it just cuts the posts shorter in the category. Can you help me with this?
I’m also thinking of putting nofollow tag on the category pages so there would be no duplicate content. What do you think about it?
The site is http://www.businesscards24.com
If you have any other comments or criticism about the blog, please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
with regards to the read more link, im not sure what exactly your having difficulty with.if you are not cutting posts short in the index etc then perhaps youve just not got the right code there
its difficult to say without looking at your templates
give me a buzz in a few weeks if your still having problems and ill have a quick look at your templates for you to see if i can see whats wrong
Fantastic! I’ve been scratching my head over this one for weeks – so thanks!
Hi Kevin!
There is another nice Plugin for feeds, that removes the more tag in feeds. But it can do much more: See the Plugin description by autor: ©Feed. The most Goal of the Plugin is though copyright you feeds against content grabber.
With Regards
Leo
I’ve also written a WordPress plugin called DualFeeds, which strips the more tag. Further than that, it allows you to offer your readers BOTH a full post feed AND a summary feed, so your subscribers can choose the format that suits them.
The full post format strips the more tag, so it really is the full post (ie same as the Full Text Feed plugin mentioned above). The summary format uses the excerpt if one exists, the more tag if it exists, or cuts the post after a userdefinable number of characters.
It works with all feeds (ie category feeds, etc, not just the main site feed).
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Hi there,
Know anyone which plugin to use if I want only the first part (first paragraph) of the article to be displayed? If someone want to read more there will be a “read more” link…
On my blog right now is displayed all of article content and I don’t want this…
I’m talking about the latest 10 articles displayed on the first page of my blog.
I’m using Wordpress.
Can anyone help?
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