Better Feed is a plugin for Wordpress that allows you to enhance your feeds with several highly customisable features.
Current version : 1.99 for WordPress 2.5+ Incoming version 2.0 with an easier to customize admin panel.
Features
- Add "Read more" links
On your site, you can split post on two parts, teaser and body, using the tag <!--more-->. Why not have a "Read more" link as well in your feed, for longer posts, or when you want to tease and keep the surprise off the feed ?
(By the way, while I'm at it : "summary" feeds truncated after 40 words just suck big time. Read more) - Add "Next page" links
Similarly, you can split posts in pages, with <!--nextpage-->. By default, feeds only show the first page and give no link for the rest. Why not have the same "Read more" link within your feed ? - Add the number of comments
When you find an interesting post via your feed reader, you often have to check the website for new comments, or to subscribe to the comment feed. Why not add, at the end of every RSS item, something like "13 comments", just like in your blog frontpage ? - Add a copyright notice
Concerned with content stealers reproducing your posts automatically somewhere without giving you credit ? Why not add something like "© Joe - 2005" and a link to some neat Creative Commons License ? - Add a list of related posts
Improve connectivity between your feed and your site : why not add, at the end of each RSS item, a list of related posts your readers may have missed ? - Add a link for Technorati's Cosmos
Why not add a handy link to quickly check who's linking to your post ? - Add a "Add to del.icio.us" link
Let your readers bookmark your entries right from within their RSS reader - Add anything
There's so many stuff you could think of that I just can't list them all :)
Download
You know the story : download, edit the beginning, upload to your server, activate. Next section details everthing that can be edited.
wp_ozh_betterfeed.zip
Extract and upload to your blog, preserving directory structure if any.
Note: download counter here and stats on wordpress.org may differ and reflect the number of downloads before this plugin was hosted on the plugin directory
Configure
Edit the beginning of the plugin (the source itself is fairly well documented, most users can just stop reading here now :)
$wp_ozh_betterfeed['split']
Set to 1 (one) if you want your feed to obey the <!--more--> tag and add a "Read more" link.
Set to 0 (zero) otherwise (print whole post, as in Wordpress default behavior)
$wp_ozh_betterfeed['multipage']
Set to 1 (one) if you want your feed to smartly hanlde multiple page posts (with <!--nextpage-->), i.e. provide a "Read More" link as well (Wordpress default behavior does not special in this case, just displays first part and nothing else)
Now edit your custom strings : "read more" link, custom footer, number of comments. In each of these strings, you are allowed to use the following "template tags" :
- %%blogname%% : blog name (My Weblog)
- %%blogurl%% : blog url (http://myblog.com/)
- %%posttitle%% : post title (Hello World)
- %%posturl%% : post url (http://myblog.com/archives/2001/02/03/hello-world/ or http://myblog.com/?p=1337)
- %%id%% : post ID (its number, i.e. 1337 in above example)
- %%date[Y]%% : date / time of post, where pattern within brackets follows PHP date() syntax
- %%categories%% : list of commas separated category names the post is filed in
- %%categorylinks%% : list of commas separated category links the post is filed in
- %%comments%% : number of comments
- %%comments_text%% : text for 0, 1 or xx comments (see below)
- %%readmore%% : "Read more" link text, if applicable (see below)
- %%wordcount%% : total number of words in a post
- %%wordcount_remain%% : number of words in second part after the split
- %%author_first%% : author's firstname
- %%author_last%% : author's lastname
- %%author_nick%% : author's nickname
Use these tokens to create your own strings for the following :
$wp_ozh_betterfeed['readmore']
Defines text for the "Read more" link, if applicable (empty otherwise)
Suggested :
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(...)<br/>Read the rest of <a href="%%posturl%%">%%posttitle%%</a> (%%wordcount_remain%% words)
$wp_ozh_betterfeed['footer']
Defines you custom footer that will be added after every RSS items.
Suggested :
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<p>%%readmore%%</p>
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<hr noshade style="margin:0;height:1px" />
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<p>© %%author_nick%% for <a href="%%blogurl%%">%%blogname%%</a>, %%date[Y]%%. |
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<a href="%%posturl%%">Permalink</a> |
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<a href="%%posturl%%#comments">%%comments_text%%</a></p>
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<p>Add to <a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=%%posturl%%&title=%%posttitle%%">del.icio.us</a></p>
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<p>Search blogs linking this post with <a href="http://www.technorati.com/search/%%posturl%%" title="Search on Technorati">Technorati</a></p>
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<p>Want more on these topics ? Browse the archive of posts filed under %%categorylinks%%.</p>
$wp_ozh_betterfeed['0comment'] = "No comment";
$wp_ozh_betterfeed['1comment'] = "One comment";
$wp_ozh_betterfeed['Xcomments'] = "% comments";
Define replacement for %%comments_text%% when there is no, one or more than one comment. The '%' sign is replaced by actual number of comments in the last string.
Please note
A few things you might not get on first run that will save me some support:
- If you include the number of comments in each feed item, be warned that some feed readers will display an item as "New" every time someone comments on it. It's normal, and it is how I intented it to behave so following conversation is easier than ever.
- If you're using Feedburner, your feed won't immediately show changes after you've activated the plugin. To do so, go to your Feedburner Dashboard → Troubleshootize → Synchronize.
- You won't notice any change if you're viewing your feed with your regular browser. Use a feed reader.
License
This plugin is released under the terms of the SMYF License. SMYF stands for "Show Me Your Feed", so if you happen to use my plugin, just tell me so I can see what you've done (and maybe subscribe to your feed if it's cool !)
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thought, on 23/Oct/07 at 7:16 am # :
This is a great plugin. Works great with WP 2.3. You can checkout our snazy new formatted feed at http://www.neatostuff.com/
Thanks!
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replied, on 10/Nov/07 at 9:32 pm # :
I'm using this now on 2 blogs. For now, it's pretty plain and simple, but the reason I wanted it, was so I could occasionally give bonus material to subscribers, or put in "secret info" just for subscribers. So, when it's time for those things, I'll add that in as well.
You can see the plain versions currently at:
SEO Scoop feed and DazzlinDonna feed. The second one hasn't had a new post since installing the plugin, so you won't see it until at least tomorrow.
Thanks very much for the great plugin. Just what I needed.
commented, on 12/Nov/07 at 9:56 am # :
Great!Thanks for your sharing
wrote, on 12/Nov/07 at 2:43 pm # :
Thank you for this plugin! now my server is not overloaded so much and i'm happy! thank you again!
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wrote, on 20/Nov/07 at 3:49 am # :
Bonjour Ozh!
I have all the other features of your plugin installed and working nicely. But I'm struggling to get rid of these damned "More" links (ironic considering thats the reason I installed it).
$wp_ozh_betterfeed['split'] is set to zero - but alas the more links are still appearing. Is there anything else I should be aware of? Or any known conflicts with other plugins?
The wordpress feed is: http://devone.theroar.com.au/feed
Any help would be appreciated.
CJ
commented, on 20/Nov/07 at 9:53 pm # :
CJ » Actually, back when I coded this plugin, WordPress' behavior was the opposite (show full post in feed and don't comply to the "read more" jump) so this plugin feature was made to force feeds to break. I need to recode it to do it the other way round now :)
said, on 21/Nov/07 at 5:43 am # :
Ok - Thanks for the quick reply.
A bientot!
CJ
thought, on 21/Dec/07 at 3:05 pm # :
Great plugin,it works ;)
thought, on 24/Dec/07 at 8:03 am # :
Great plugin. Using it on GameIndependent (or I will be, when I fix the feed). Gonna add it to all my WP sites.
said, on 28/Dec/07 at 6:47 am # :
Double posting here, but thought I'd offer: If you're interested, I'd like to add an admin options page so I don't have to edit the code.
said, on 28/Dec/07 at 10:13 am # :
James » Sure, that would be cool :)
thought, on 06/Jan/08 at 3:24 am # :
Greetings!
thanks for this great feed plugin. I love your flag in the comment section, to identify where people are from. Can you tell me the name of that plug in please?
thank you
said, on 07/Jan/08 at 10:28 pm # :
João Leitão » It's my "IP to Nation" plugin.