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 !)
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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
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 :)
Ok – Thanks for the quick reply.
A bientot!
CJ
Great plugin,it works ;)
Great plugin. Using it on GameIndependent (or I will be, when I fix the feed). Gonna add it to all my WP sites.
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.
James » Sure, that would be cool :)
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
João Leitão » It's my "IP to Nation" plugin.
Somehow this plugin isn't working for me. Could you take a look at my feed and see if it's working for you? Thanks.
Sue » it is working fine on your feed as far as I can see.
Just wondering if this works with feeds being 'fed' through Feedburner as well?
nm sorry I didn't notice there were previous pages of comments!
Ive got to be missing something because i cant get this plugin to work. I even created a blank WP blog with no plugins except this one. I did nothing to the plugin file, then activated it.
I don't see anything with my comments. Please help.
Ok, let me update my question. The data shows up in my data feed, however, i would like the same information to display at the bottom of my posts.
Im guessing that would be a different plugin?
John » this is why it's called Better Feed, probably. For posts, you need another plugin (that would be very similar if not practically identical, obviously) or, more simply, just modify your theme to include those changes.
Thanks!
Hi,
I am having strange problem.You can check http://www.ubuntugeek.com/feed/ and i am getting everything other than related posts is there anything i need to do for this.
Thanks for your great plugin
Dave
dave » I can't even see the feed on your site
could you please check now you should be able to see and related posts are not appearing
Thanks
This is the James #157. I did go ahead and create an admin interface for the plugin. I can e-mail you the expanded version. Drop me a message.
Hello Ozh, Great Plugin!
I have a question though, I am trying to get the custom fields to work. I entered the following under the area where it says "/* The function that translate every %%stuff%% into their values */"
$string = str_replace('%%custfield%%', post_custom('key'), $string);
I am putting "%%custfield%%" between the FEEDFOOT. This doesn't seem to be working for me. Where do I put which key that I am using?
Any ideas Ozh?
Ozh, thanks for this! I've been searching for a way to add a "comment at the site" footer to my rss, Thanks again!
Ozh,
Great Plugin! I can't get it to work when there is no post content. Do you know if there is a way to do this?
Hi Ozh,
Thanks for this plugin! I've been able to install it and get everything working on my blog at Mechazilla.com without any trouble. However I'm having some issues with my blog at Fandomania.com. The plugin installs fine, and it all looks good, but for some reason it's not putting the Read Mores and multiple page breaks into my feeds. It is correctly inserting the footer (I modified it to just include a HR), so I know it's modifying the feed but just isn't putting in the Read More or Next Page. Any idea what could be going on? After editing the plugin, I installed it on both blogs exactly the same, so I really have no idea what I might be doing wrong. Thanks in advance!
Jason » Not sure, anyway I will update this plugin for 2.5
Hi Ozh,
This is a great plugin, yet in WP2.5 it generates the full feed (even though it's set to summary in WP Settings and to 1 in plugins file). I can't wait to see the update :)
@ozh: yeah – cant wait to see you updateting your plugin for 2.5 ;-)
desperately waiting for your update, too
Lets motivate Ohz'y a bit by doing cheerleader things *GIVE ME AN O!*
Yay … 1.99 is there – thanks for updating Ozh. One problem anyway: with 1.99 activated and using Windows Live Writer as xmlrpc client i get blogger.getusersblog error now.
…hmmm .. and feed seems to screwed up as soon as i enable the default betterfeed settings … malformed xml …
cooool! version 1.1 works for me, my deepest thanks!!!
Hi, thank you very much for the plugin, it's really useful in wp 2.5! I was looking for these features from a lot of time (since the 2.5 version was released). I'll post an article in my blog about your plugin (in italian language). (i just writed something on your others plugins). Bye!
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Does this PI work with the Feedburner redirection plug in? As soon as I enable that PI, I get pull feeds again, as soon as I turn it off, I get the Better Feed style feeds.
Maybe this is just an issue of FeedBurner needs to update their pull from me and it has not happened yet?
Scott » this plugin modifies your feed. Then, feedburner copies your feed, regardless of what happens to it before, so of course they can live together. I'm using both here on this blog. Feedburner will reflect changes either on next update, or if you resync (feedburner -> troubleshootize : resync)
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Thank you very much for this plugin!
Dude, this plugin rocks. Especially now, because the wordpress team changed the -more- thingy in 2.5.
Yes, definitely thank you so much for this plug in. I have been trying to get my feed back from the feedburner monster and have been looking for ways to dress it up (comments, bookmarks etc.) However – I do have a silly question…
Could you explain in simplet terms how to format the php script for non-programmer types? i.e. where if & how I need to configure the perma link, site url & how to format the whole thing, digg url etc…. I think I configured as per your instructions, but nothing is showing up… Thanks!
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