RSS Feeds

For those of you read­ing the RSS feed, you will of noticed a change from sum­mary to full posts. I have made the change because of the num­ber of people tak­ing the RSS feeds. Don’t worry if you want to keep the sum­mary feeds because they are
still available.

The prob­lem is that Word­Press only lets me not you choose full or sum­mary feeds. A quick search of the Word­Press sup­port forum found other people hav­ing the prob­lem, it is either full or sum­mary post. Found a post that provided a little help, so I hacked a couple of pages (actu­ally copied wp-atom.php and wp-rss2.php to wp-atom-summary.php and wp-rss2-summary.php and mod­i­fied them) and also mod­i­fied the .htac­cess file to make things a little easier, but there is more to be done.

Sum­mary RSS Feeds

• RSS2 Sum­mary
• Atom Sum­mary

Full RSS feeds

• RSS2
• Atom
• RSS
• RDF

While I would love to post a tutorial on how I man­aged to do it, it was a case of copy­ing the files, work­ing out what needed to be removed and cut­ting it out. Instead have a look at the zip file con­tain­ing two .php files I created.

The two lines I added to the .htac­cess file are

RewriteRule ^feed/rss2summary/?$ /wp-rss2-summary.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^feed/atomsummary/?$ /wp-atom-summary.php [QSA,L]

The danger is .htac­cess file might be over­writ­ten when you changes your set­tings in Word­Press, so be aware of the danger. I just changed the per­mis­sion of my .htac­cess file so I can not over­write it.

Please let me know if you have any prob­lems with the RSS feeds from this site. This site is very much a learn­ing experience.

Update 16 Oct 2005 22:18 I would advise against manu­ally edit­ing the .htac­cess file if you want to add pages (not posts) and make use permalinks. Stay tuned for any new problems.

Update 17 Oct 2005 13:30 My prob­lems with the .htac­cess file had to do with per­mis­sions. I would strongly advise against delet­ing your .hta­cess file on your server and upload­ing a new one. Instead edit your .htac­cess file and add what you need after

#END WordPress:

You may need to change file per­mis­sion to do this, just remem­ber to change the per­mis­sions back, more details can be found in the Word­Press Codex.

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