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HI,
My rss feed output show the entire blog and all the posts in their full length. I prefer to send out a summary and a set number of posts. How do i do that?
thanks
Paul
Hi there,
Unfortunately you can't currently manipulate the format in which RSS feeds render. Instead, I'd suggest you use a free service like Feedburner (http://feedburner.google.com) to optimize your feed as you see fit. All you need to do is provide Feedburner with your raw RSS feed URL, and then under "Optimize" they offer a service called "Summary", which should achieve something similar to what you've mentioned. You then embed/provide customers with the Feedburner URL as opposed to the orig
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Hi there,
Unfortunately you can't currently manipulate the format in which RSS feeds render. Instead, I'd suggest you use a free service like Feedburner (http://feedburner.google.com) to optimize your feed as you see fit. All you need to do is provide Feedburner with your raw RSS feed URL, and then under "Optimize" they offer a service called "Summary", which should achieve something similar to what you've mentioned. You then embed/provide customers with the Feedburner URL as opposed to the original URL.
If you want something even more custom, consider Yahoo Pipes perhaps - it's able to completely manipulate RSS feeds and spit them back out in a variety of formats.
Hope that helps,
Jackson.
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Thanks for the tip....
Why does BC not have it?
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well that did not work
feedburner can not work out the feed
where do I get the "raw rss feed url"? I tried right out of the rss part of the site and then out of a link but not working
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NVM The feed link is in a menu and I have to change it on every page in the site.... ffs found the one I want