Wordpress Plugin to Add Excerpt to Feed

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I’m looking for a plugin for wordpress plugin and haven’t been able to find one, so I’m hoping one of my readers might know of one. I’m looking for a plugin that adds the excerpt to the contents of a full feed that’s already being published.

Why would I want that? If i put an image and short pargraph I can already get it to display on the page using the_excerpt_reloaded plugin. This give me control on the page to display adsense or any kind of advertising in the post exactly where I want, then follow it up with the rest of the post on the page. However the image or any text doesn’t make it to feed which is kind of a bummer. I could overcome this with some advertising plugin’s but they are flaky and I like to control the “inserted ads” via my own PHP based logic anyways. So anybody know of anything please drop something in the comments, TY.

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13 Responses to “Wordpress Plugin to Add Excerpt to Feed”

1. Joost de Valk Says:
   September 22nd, 2007 at 3:20 pm

   Hmm don’t know if I know exactly what you mean… If I would, I could whip something up…

2. Brian Clark Says:
   September 22nd, 2007 at 5:23 pm

   Don’t know the answer, but can you tell me how you’re getting your related posts to show up in the feed?

3. Michael Gray Says:
   September 22nd, 2007 at 5:28 pm

   @brian here you go

   http://dev.aizatto.com/category/aizattos-related-post/

   @joost
   drop me an email I’ll give you a better example

4. Brian Clark Says:
   September 22nd, 2007 at 5:41 pm

   Thanks!

5. Douglas Karr Says:
   September 22nd, 2007 at 7:20 pm

   Here’s one that I built:

   http://www.douglaskarr.com/projects/postpost/

6. Andy Beard Says:
   September 23rd, 2007 at 12:25 pm

   Are you using
   http://cavemonkey50.com/code/full-feed/

   Without it you will see different behaviour for your excerpts in feeds.

   Then I also use the beta version of
   http://www.laptoptips.ca/projects/wordpress-excerpt-editor/

   That saves a lot of time in creating custom excerpts.

   The one you are using is a little old hat
   http://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/

   Then again his add_link_attribute is almost certainly a “golden oldy” that very few people exploit.

7. Michael Gray Says:
   September 23rd, 2007 at 2:42 pm

   hmm guess I took the long way trying to explain this. All I want to do is add the excerpt to the full feed I am already publishing.

8. Joost de Valk Says:
   September 23rd, 2007 at 2:44 pm

   So you want the excerpt first, and then the full article? in your feed?

9. Michael Gray Says:
   September 23rd, 2007 at 3:17 pm

   exactly I took the long way around and just confused the issue

10. forex trader Says:
    September 23rd, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    Good job. Go on!

11. Joost de Valk Says:
    September 23rd, 2007 at 3:29 pm

    Looking at it that is probably 2 lines of PHP in wp-includes/feed-rss2.php, and not as easily done in a plugin.

    on line 39 there, add the_excerpt_rss() in front of the_content(), and you’re done I think.

12. mark Says:
    September 25th, 2007 at 1:09 am

    i want to convert rss feed from a websites html page and show it in mine i have searched a lot but noone is able to fix my problem iwant that links from feed should also open in my website or blog only so that my visitors are do not go else where

13. Andy Beard Says:
    September 25th, 2007 at 2:04 am

    Mark, you are on blogspot so it is almost a lost cause… as is blogspot.

    The best you can do is something like Grazr or Springwidgets