Better Feed is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to enhance your feeds with several highly customizable features.
Features
Using a convenient interface with real time preview, Better Feed will allow you to add anything below each entry in your RSS feed. It also brings back the ability to split your feed with "Read More" links, just like your blog posts.
- 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 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 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 "Add to del.icio.us" link
Let your readers bookmark your entries right from within their RSS reader - Add a link for incoming links in Technorati or Google
Why not add a handy link to quickly check who's linking to your post ? - Add anything
There's so many stuff you could think of that I just can't list them all :)
Download
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
Once you're done installing it, head to "Settings" and then "Better Feed". Everything is configured and tested from there.
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, or this simple service I set up especially for you: RSS 2 HTML
License
This plugin is released under the terms of the BAI & SMYF License. BAI means "Blog About It". Like the plugin? Let your readers know! 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 !)
Shorter URL
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If the plugin doesn't work, then change under
Options
-> Reading
-> Syndication Feeds
– >For each article show
from "Summary" to "Full Text"
Then it worked over here.
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Nice plug-in and it's doing on full feeds what I hacked directly into the RSS files to show on my summary (making it easier). The only thing I'd like to do is be able to keep my summaries on and have it show the footer regardless. Any thoughts on what to add to the plug-in to do this?
Elana » I designed the plugin exactly to entice people to switch to full feeds. People afraid of automatic content stealing can add a copyright, people wanting to add some teasing on their webpage with a "More" tag can do the same on their feed, etc…
So, basically, I designed it exactly *not* to work with short content feeds. Because, you know, partial content feeds suck :) Plus, a short content feed with as much text in the post summary as in the footer, well, that would really suck.
So, basically, you're on your own if you want to modify it to do so.
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Most of my friends are on LJ, and tend to forget to leave their little sandboxed world to comment; as a consequence, I don't see their replies. I've been meaning to do something like this for quite some time.
Just upgraded to WP 2.0, installed this plugin, and the feed displayed with /feed/ doesn't seem to have been updated. However, if I append "?feed=rss2" to my blog URL, I do get the modified feed. This might explain the "it's not working!" posts.
Any idea how to make the /feed/ URL show the correct data?
Sam » I see no difference between your two URLs.
As for the "it's not working see no difference!" complaints, they mostly concern people who check their feed on feedburner, which actually can take a few moments to reflect changes on your actual feed.
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Do these changes have any impact on my feedburner feeds?
Meaning, if I costumize my default WordPress feeds with this plugin, does it change the way my feedburner feeds look?
Sarit: of course. Check my feed as an example. Of course resync your feedburner feed to reflect changes immediately.
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Well, in that case- you're a genius :)
That's exactly what I've been looking for!
Thanks.
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If I have a thumbnail picture in my daily entry, will this plugin allow me to publish that thumbnail to my RSS feed and have it show up in feed readers?
I have been trying and trying to figure out how to do that and just… can't. Argh.
Ozh, thank you for the great plugin. I have been using it for several months now and have found it very useful. Props out.
Exactly what I needed! Thanks so much!
(Tipped you a few bucks for all the time you saved me tonight.)
Amit
http://www.photojojo.com
This is a clever enhancement to WP. Thank you.
While I agree that full feeds are often better, there are occasions when a split feed is preferred. I make heavy use of category feeds in WP for our "News & Events" blog. When one of these category feeds is being consumed on a main page to show the latest news and events, I want it to show a teaser in order to save space. On the other hand, when one of these category feeds is being consumed by a page that is designed for printing, I want full feeds. Is there a way to selectively apply the Better Feed mojo to some feeds and not others?
Another question I have is how to change the date format to e.g. Dutch format. I already have the language file for Dutch installed in WordPress.
Sorry, my first question was how to completely remove the "Comments" line from the RSS feed.
Great plug-in!
In the meantime I got the solution via the WordPress forums:
Edit the wp-rss2.php file, and remove the comments line in there.
hi! that's a quite good plugin. I am using it and wanted to say thanks. And my recommendation about the comment counts would be not to use. People can encourage their readers to use comment feeds.
Thanks for this plugin! It was exactly what I was looking for.
SMYF: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mymoneyblog
Hi Ozh
Nice plugin except I am having the asme problems as outlined in comment 56 above.
Feeds from:
http://www.redcardinal.ie/feed/rss/
are not being parsed correctly while from:
http://www.redcardinal.ie/feed/
and
http://www.redcardinal.ie/feed/atom/
your plugin is doing the trick. I use Google reader and only seems interested in picking up the 0.92 feed which isn't parsing the correct feed.
Any ideas pls?
Hi again Ozh
Forget about my post above – it seems to have settled itself.
Maybe WordPress caches the RSS feed file?
Anyhow, thanks for the plugin!
Hmm
Sorry I spoke too soon.
RSS 0.92 still spitting out the old WP feed… :(
Hello! I’m looking for a plugin that lets me show a different Number Of Posts in the feed, depending on which category it is. For example my “News†feed will be the usual 10 posts limit, but the “Podcast†feed will show “-1″ posts (or, ALL the posts in that category, whether it’s 12 posts or 40).
Can you add this feature, or is there another way?
I love this script, it works awesome. They only problem that I have with using it, is that neither the full post or the "read more" excerpt are being shown. I have changed both settings (on/off if you will), but still only get the excerpts. I also don't get any errors. Any ideas on what could be wrong? Full post feeds are essential to the business that I am trying to start.
Its pretty useful plugin… thank you..
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This is really "the feed on steroids"! Splendid job! Thank you for sharing!
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Thanks a lot for this. It looks extremely helpful.
I am looking for a plugin that can post RSS content in an article on a blog so it appears just like any other blog post, say once a day. If it caches 10-15 at a time thats fine too as long as it only places one blog post at a time.
Will this plugin handle my needs or is there something else I need?
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Hi, I'm using your plugin here: http://www.italyisfalling.com/feed/
and I am very satisfied.
It would be perfect if this plugin would also address optionally the 'relative URI' feed problem, which is common in wordpress and which feedvalidator castigates (for example the IE7 feed reader doesn't work with relative URI in feeds). That would make it the 'pefect feed' plugin :)
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I have a better feed now. http://avi.alkalay.net/feed/
I use feed for categories and man other stuff. So I miss this features:
– Ability to change the feed title, to possibly include the category name.
– Ability to provide feeds of multiple categories combined. So if I have categories A, B and C on my blog, I'd like to have a single feed URL for posts on category A or B, but not C.
Than you
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