Hi Support:
Is there a way to add a teaser or short text for RSS feed not to display the whole text contents?
right now my RSS feed display all the text contents. I want it only display a summary or just title is fine.
Right now it seems the only working method is to add excerpt manually at each post. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Go to the WP panel settings, for reading and you can set the RSS to show excerpts.
You might want to peruse the basic docs (codex) for WordPress to learn what all the main admin pages do —
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Reading_Screen
on the reading page:
For each article in a feed, show Determines whether or not the feed will include the full article or just a summary.
◾Full text – Click this radio button to include the full content of each post.
◾Summary – Click this radio button to include a summary of the post. This could save bandwidth.
Hope that helped! 🙂
(we’ve all been there!!)
Hi Chris:
thank you.
I did check the summary button in the main setting and it seems that all the category rss works but if I go to the main page and loading site rss post, I still got all the text showing up.
I remember reading something from you like, I have to manually put something in the excerpt so the rss will load only that. I tried and that method works.
I also read the wordpress text. It states that auto excerpts and manual excerpts are different. I am not sure there are some plugin that put something for manual excerpts.
Best,
For the excerpts in RSS you have two choices, just like all excerpts on the site
a) have WP auto generate an excerpt from the start of your post; you can control some of that from theme panel for modules – not sure how that impacts RSS
b) manually put something in the excerpt box in the post panel
or if you’re using Yoast SEO, you can also presumably custom enter excerpts for the post meta for SERPS in the Yoast panel — not sure how that impacts RSS either.
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for our news sites where the news item starts with AP style datelines, we allow WP to auto-generate the excerpts.
For our magazine sites with articles and reviews, we manually put in the WP post excerpt box what we want to be used sitewide and in RSS for the ‘excerpt’ from story.
Hope that helped.
