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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This is great plugin! However, it is only support tags without customized more text. I mean, I can write and link in wordpress will look like "Click Here" not "Read the rest of this". Can this be implemented in your plugin?
alexf2000 » That's why it's only 1.99, it was a quick update for WP2.5, the "real" version 2.0 is still cooking :)
Ozh, I am looking into the plugin code right now. Not sure if thats possible to do at all, there is a variable called $more_link_text in post-template.php that have this "more text", but I can not access it from the plugin. Probably you will need to implement another hook to get the untouched content before it is processed for the feed by wordpress.
Btw, technorati and google search html code produces some broken images in my feed, so I erased almost everything after hr tag.
alexf2000 » be sure to set absolute path for images (ie starting with http:// and will a full path)
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I don't know if you know but a bug in 2.5 won't allow partial feed.
You called it: "Add "Read more" links"
you can check:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/167329?replies=5
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/166854?replies=4
I've tried your plugin hoping it will fix it but no go .. :(
Shasoosh » This is not a bug. It's how WP is supposed to act and work. I use this plugin here on this blog (obviously) and it *does* cut on <!–more–>
oh really? and you're with 2.5? Do you use feedburner?
I've installed your plugin, activated it, checked there's a 1 where it sould ($wp_ozh_betterfeed['split'] = 1 and my Rss 2.0 still full . Maybe i forgot something?
Shasoosh » You probably forgot to let feedburner resync with your feed. Either post something new, or manually resync it (feedburner -> troubleshootize -> resync)
Ozh, this is great, thank you! One thing though – when 2.0 comes along, could it support tags as well as categories?
Thank you!
Rav » Of course!
Ozh, working like a charm!
Thanks for this wonderful plugin!
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where is the option page?
how i can setup feed to use?
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I'm new to WordPress..I want to add a static page to my RSS feed, can I do this with your plug-in?
And a really dumb question, I've activated the plug-in but I'm still gettin' my standard RSS feed – what am I missin'?
steve » Adding static content to an RSS is exactly what RSS is not for. As for not seeing any change, I've updated the doc here, please read the end here.
Installed it, now what?
I haven't a clue what to do next.
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great plugin since my default RSS from WP get error randomly. Sometime it is unreachable. Very weird.
Your plugin fixed this.
Thank you
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Thanks for this plugin!
But I have a problem, plugin enabled, but it's still not splitting posts on
I have $wp_ozh_betterfeed['split'] = 1;
I don't know why it isn't working. Any ideas?
I have my own custom footer that I like from FeedBurner, and just want the
split to work. I've tried making the footer string blank, but that didn't seem to work. Any help?
In fact, editing the more string isn't working either. I'm really getting frustrated with the way WordPress 2.5 messed with my feed settings.
My feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/BroncoTalk.
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Kyle » your feed *is* definitely cut on the "read more" link.
Yeah thanks Ozh, I got it to work after I posted that comment. The %%readmore%% special string had to be included in the footer, not just a blank footer. Thanks.
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hello,
I'd like to add thumbnails to my feed; is there a token for the thumbnail function?
I've postthumb revisited plugin installed and running
ciao!
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Neuville » No, although I might think about some way to add custom functions… I'm working on 2.0, stay tuned
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When I try to install the plugin, I get the following error. I assume it's looking in the wrong place for something, but don't know how to fix it.
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in content/j/j/o/jjohnsen/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp_ozh_betterfeed.php on line 71
jjohnsen » looks like you made a mistake in your editing when customizing some vars (forgot a trailing quote or something).
Thank you so much, that fixed it.
This is a great plug-in, but I'm noticing when I use it the title of my feed is getting affected undesirably. It ends up being my blog name with its Home Page title tag content appended.
I'm using Feedburner and also Headspace 2. Is is possible there are incompatibilities resulting?
Thanks,
[sr]
[sr] » I'm using this plugin and feedburner too. Dont' know Headspace, but anyway, my plugin doesnt modify titles. There must be something else conflicting.
Ah, I figured it out after testing on two different blogs running the same configurations. Yes, there's a particular part of Headspace that must be left blank to avoid creating a conflict. thx again
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