Comments on: Full or Partial RSS Feeds? http://meganmcdermott.com/2007/03/09/full-or-partial-rss-feeds/ Web design and that Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:18:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Megan http://meganmcdermott.com/2007/03/09/full-or-partial-rss-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-5032 Megan Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:27:37 +0000 http://www.meganmcdermott.com/2007/03/09/full-or-partial-rss-feeds/#comment-5032 Hey, guys, thanks for your feedback! I'm glad you're enjoying my posts, Fredrik. I don't quite understand the scraping thing either. I guess the syndication just makes it easier for people to replubish your content. Adam - that's a good point about better styling of pages. I remember reading that at Jeff Croft. I do a lot with individual pages on my work site but not so much here. I just found a plugin that allows you to <a href="http://lud.icro.us/wordpress-plugin-head-meta/" rel="nofollow">add extra stuff to the <head></a>, which will make it easier to do some custom CSS for individual posts (rather than going into the templates... although it would be good to have some basic classes available there too). I have heard of some people who will unsubscribe from a feed if it doesn't offer full text and I definitely want to avoid that. Hey, guys, thanks for your feedback! I’m glad you’re enjoying my posts, Fredrik. I don’t quite understand the scraping thing either. I guess the syndication just makes it easier for people to replubish your content.

Adam – that’s a good point about better styling of pages. I remember reading that at Jeff Croft. I do a lot with individual pages on my work site but not so much here. I just found a plugin that allows you to add extra stuff to the <head>, which will make it easier to do some custom CSS for individual posts (rather than going into the templates… although it would be good to have some basic classes available there too).

I have heard of some people who will unsubscribe from a feed if it doesn’t offer full text and I definitely want to avoid that.

]]> By: Fredrik Rubensson http://meganmcdermott.com/2007/03/09/full-or-partial-rss-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-5031 Fredrik Rubensson Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:26:39 +0000 http://www.meganmcdermott.com/2007/03/09/full-or-partial-rss-feeds/#comment-5031 I browse most posts at Bloglines (where there are 4 subscribers to this excellent blog by the way...) so I would really like a full feed. Now I go here anyway because I found it a couple of weeks ago (the newness thing) and really like the content. I don't understand the scraping thing - isn't it just as easy to follow the link in the feed and get the content directly from the site? (Assuming a bot is doing the work....) I browse most posts at Bloglines (where there are 4 subscribers to this excellent blog by the way…) so I would really like a full feed. Now I go here anyway because I found it a couple of weeks ago (the newness thing) and really like the content.

I don’t understand the scraping thing – isn’t it just as easy to follow the link in the feed and get the content directly from the site? (Assuming a bot is doing the work….)

]]> By: Adam H http://meganmcdermott.com/2007/03/09/full-or-partial-rss-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-5024 Adam H Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:57:29 +0000 http://www.meganmcdermott.com/2007/03/09/full-or-partial-rss-feeds/#comment-5024 Wordpress 2.1 now gives partial text if you use the <!--more--> tag in your posts where it used to give full text all the time. I use Google Reader for feed reading but almost never look at the feed text, I prefer to go to the actual site to see the design and layout. As we move forward in the blogosphere the production value of each post is improving. For example both <a href="http://jeffcroft.com" rel="nofollow">Jeff Croft</a> and <a href="http://garrettdimon.com" rel="nofollow">Garrett Dimon</a> put effort into each posts image layout which really adds to the experience. The only time I look at the feed text is if a site is down when I want to read it. However, I suspect I am in the extreme minority. Wordpress 2.1 now gives partial text if you use the <!–more–> tag in your posts where it used to give full text all the time. I use Google Reader for feed reading but almost never look at the feed text, I prefer to go to the actual site to see the design and layout.

As we move forward in the blogosphere the production value of each post is improving. For example both Jeff Croft and Garrett Dimon put effort into each posts image layout which really adds to the experience. The only time I look at the feed text is if a site is down when I want to read it. However, I suspect I am in the extreme minority.

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