For the life of me I cannot figure out why none of the RSS feeds for my site are displaying any of the info from posts. The only I can get any info about posts in an RSS feed to show up is if I enter text in the Excerpt field. Which honestly works fine for RSS feeds. However if I enter a paragraph for the excerpt for RSS feeds, then the excerpt is too long for posts on my home page. I don’t remember this being a problem before but something must have changed.
I’ve tried deactivating all plugins but that doesn’t seem to help.
You can see what I mean if you go to: http://staging55.gfqnetwork.com/feed/
What text you do see for a few of the posts are posts that I am not using Visual Composer for.
Could this be due to using Visual Composer? It seems like posts where I am just entering text and not using any Visual Composer elements, the text shows up fine in the feed.
I did a fresh install of WordPress and Newspaper with demo content. As soon as I started using Visual Composer for posts, the descriptions for posts in the feed disappears. So this is definitely something to do with VC.
hi,
we are aware of this, using Visual Composer will add shortcodes, and probably this is the reason way rss feed have problems.
please use Visual Composer only for the home page, until now we don’t have a solution for this problem.
Thanks for you message.
Radu A.
Note –
one option may be to create a custom RSS feed, using a “page” and then publish custom RSS where you strip out any shortcodes for the post meta; then replace all pointers in the head for your custom RSS.
This is somewhat advanced, but if you google how to make a custom RSS feed it’s one way to work “around” any of these types of issues. Or, perhaps hack the RSS template in core WP code to strip shortcodes?
Not a perfect answer. Just a thought. We built a custom RSS feed for specific purpose to create a clean feed without auto-hyperlinks for a syndication thing. Works well. I don’t have the code handy, unfortunately — but upshot is you copy the RSS template to make new page template like ourrss.php and then create new page with that template to have rss be at /yoursite.xyz/ourrss
Might help. Might not. Was just checking in here today since I saw ping on new update 🙂
Hey Chris,
Thanks for your suggestion. I’ve ended up just setting WordPress not to display full summaries, and I am filling out the excerpt in order to place the text I want in the feed. I’ve also used CSS to truncate the text for posts on the front page since most of my excerpts are too long for the front page.
But your suggestion might actually help with another project I am working on that may need a customized RSS feed.
