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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sadly, Ozh Better Feed is not compatible with Broken Link Checker; can you please make it compatible?
cartmanffc » Long answer: Don't know this plugin, but I have the feeling that a plugin checking links should not do anything to feeds, so it's more likely on this plugin that there's a problem.
Short answer: no :)
This looks like a great plugin, I downloaded it last night on my test blog.
I noticed that on the bottom of the Better Feed Options page, there is an option to reset settings if "you want to uninstall the plugin and leave no unnecessary entries in your database"
What kind of hooks does this leave in the database. I'm asking because I was using another plugin that made substantial changes to the database and with a later version of WP, it no longer worked and there was considerable cleanup of the database required as the blog came to a grinding halt in terms of speed.
Thanks
sarah » the plugin adds one entry in the options table (wp_options), and that's all. It will work with every version of WordPress in the future.
Thank you, I've installed the plugin and am looking forward to using it.
Right now, as part of the footer, it says permalink and it is hyperlinked to the url of the blog post.
Rather then say permalink, is there a way to get it to use the article title and hyperlink that to the blog post url?
sarah » then use %%posttitle%% instead of permalink ………….
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It looks lots of the comments are spam. I'm considering setting up a dofollow blog, but I'm concerned about the amount of time that clearing out all the SPAM comments might take.
Thanks for making the plugin available. Right now I'm just starting to learn about blogging, but I'm sure that once I understand more then I would probably find this plugin useful.
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Hi Ozh. Could you please take a look at my support thread request / idea?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/209479?replies=1
Essentially I like the idea of Read More in Feeds from your plugin. But my problem with that is I already have 100+ posts that don't have the MORE shortcode in them, and I don't want to put it there.
I need to automatically truncate my RSS content at something like 300 characters. Not the 50 that is the default when I choose "Summary" feeds.
I could make Full feeds and use the Read More method, but that doesn't really work for me.
I need to use Summary feeds with 100+ posts in the feed, so that the total feed size is small enough for readers and Feedburner to handle. But not so small as to truncate at 50 chars per post, that's not quite enough.
The support thread on WP/support, gives my hack of a core file. Can this be done instead by plugin? Can you add the feature to this plugin?
Thanks a bunch.
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Dgold » I think you don't really get what RSS are for. They're not supposed to be an exhaustive listing of your posts, they're supposed to be a short list of recent stuff only. Feed readers can keep an exhaustive collective, but that's definitely not the purpose of the feed.
I wont add this into the plugin because, basically, no one on Earth but you needs this :)
Ozh thanks for your advice, and answer on the WP forum. I have discovered that syndication Feeds have more uses than merely Blogging paragraphs of your thoughts. For me the important thing is being able to feed iTunes my entire back-catalog of 70+ Podcasts. (This particular podcast, the episodes don't really go out-of-date. People are still downloading the shows from 2003-2008.) The people who read this feed of mine need access to the essential: the first paragraph of text which is the Table Of Contents of the podcast, and the Enclosure (the podcast media). All that comes through nicely in a feed that has 100+ posts, each truncated to about a paragraph worth of text. Yes there is more text in my posts which is denied to the feed readers, but the upside is my podcast back catalog is all in iTunes. If my goal was to have people read the complete text of the most current posts, then I would want a more traditional feed. But I am of the school of thought: there are differing uses for the syndication technology. Know your audience. Not every website is geared towards today, last week, this month. Some websites serve content that is geared by Subject, and by Media attachments, not by chronology and text.
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