RSS Advantage Of WordPress
TheSpot-er on August 15th, 2007There is more arguments on subject of providing full text feed or partial to your visitors then on subject of Christianity. Don’t worry … I have no intentions to get into religious arguments on this post, although I religiously believe in advantage of WordPress over other blog platforms.
In this post I want to introduce a new plugin that takes this advantage to a new high! Providing your visitors choice to subscribe to full or partial rss feed (summary) now is as easy as installing one great plugin – DualFeeds.
Idea behind this plugin is so simple – I can’t believe nobody else came up with this idea until now. Once installed you simply give an option to either get your full feed or only summary. Let your readers decide how they want your content to be delivered to them.
But there is more to it then simple choice. If you have followed my posts you seen my article on Monetize Your WordPress RSS Feed where I discuss another great plugin that allows you to add some marketing (ads) into your feed.
However great and unobtrusive that plugin is – some blog readers don’t like it. Well, now you can easily provide those readers with option to either get full feed with ads or just the summary – without ads.
Another great reason to provide summary feed is for people that subscribe to many feeds and just want to scan the blog headlines and quick summaries to learn what that post is all about. Allow the supporters of partial feed get what they want!
If you like this post you might want to also read:
- Monetize Your WordPress RSS Feed
- Monetizing Your Blog Without Annoying Your Readers
- Jack London, Your Blog, RSS Feed And WordPress 2.2 …
- What Is RSS And Why You Should Subscribe?
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Hello there, long time no see. It’s been my understanding that most RSS readers these days actually give users the option to either see headlines, summaries or the full text. Taking that into account, I would assume that setting your WordPress RSS Feed to full text would be the way to cover all options.
Well, you are assuming All people actually have complete understanding of technology and how to use and customize it. For example Goggle reader which is one of the most commonly used by visitors of my blog - doesn’t give those options. So how you provide your feed on your blog greatly impacts how people will see it …
Alex
P.S. yeah .. its been a while, thanks for dropping by
Hi,
I’m the author of the DualFeeds plugin, so firstly, thanks for writing it up!
With regards to Jeffro’s comment above, I can tell you that the default WordPress feed includes a description element (with a summary) and a content element (with the full post up to the more tag). So there should be no need for DualFeeds.
The problem is that most feed readers only access the content element, even if they give you a choice of summary or full post.
For example, with Mozilla Thunderbird, you are given the choice to download the excerpt or the whole page. If you choose excerpt, it uses the content element (so you get the full post up to the more tag). If you tell Thunderbird to get the whole page, it gets the full HTML page from your site (exactly as if you opened in a browser).
I haven’t tested all the feed readers, but Sharpreader is the same, and as you point out, Google Reader doesn’t let you choose. That’s why I wrote the plugin, but of course there would be no need if the feed readers used what was already in the feed!
Thanks Stephen!
That is great summary
Since I only use Bloglines and Google - this was a news to me and educational read.