WordPress 2.1 – Feeds

January 28, 2007 by Chris · 3 Comments

This week I noticed on a few blogs that the  tag seemed to be truncating feeds that I’d typically receive as full feeds. That caught me by surprise, but I verified on a post here last night that that’s indeed the case for folks who recently migrated from WordPress 2.0.x to 2.1.

Someone asked about it this evening at the support forums. I “tracked” down a trac ticket with some rationale (kind of) as to why things have changed. Frankly, I’m not sure I agree with the change, but fortunately there’s a full feed plugin at cavemonkey50.com.

If you’re sending full feeds and you like to use that more tag to shorten up your blog’s front page, then you probably want to look at this plugin.

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3 Responses to “WordPress 2.1 – Feeds”

Data Governance says:

August 30, 2007 at 12:39 pm

Do you find that a full feed ends up being better or worse in the long run? About 50% of my advertising is from adsense, the other 50% is from direct advertisers. I’m a bit scared to offer the full feed since my posts are generally rather long and there really is some value in having someone look at it on the website.

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Chris says:

August 31, 2007 at 12:03 pm

Do you find that a full feed ends up being better or worse in the long run?

As a reader/subscriber, I’ll drop most feeds that aren’t full. I’d really rather not be clicking multiple times to read the article and I find it annoying.

As a publisher, I want happy readers. I’m willing to balance a bit lower count of uniques per day against a larger volume of feed subscribers.

And hey, if I was worried about monetizing, I’d have ads in my full feeds. But I’m not and I don’t. Yet.

Now, if I had direct advertisers, I’d probably try and sell them on paying a bit more to get their ads in the feed…

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Rich G. says:

September 1, 2007 at 7:06 am

I unsub from partial feeds as well.

There’s only one feed I’ve kept that I’ll click through and that’s going to go on principle one of these days.

I don’t like forced click-throughs.

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