Empty post leads to use of excerpt in feed

[niska]

The content of my posts are empty. Instead I'm using custom fields. I'm using the filter the_content to format the content. Like this

function my_content($text) {
  $postid = get_the_ID();
  $desc = get_post_meta($postid, 'productdescription', true);
  return $desc;
}

add_filter('the_content', 'my_content', 0);

However. Since the "real" content is empty. It seems as if wordpress, in the feed, use the excerpt, instead of the content.

My temporary solution is to insert a dot "." in the content window and click save.

Looking at the logic behind the RSS2 Feed, The feed is designed to always have content available.

However, We are not looking at the filtered post_content results, which will skew the feeds to ignoring hooks which add content to the post.

See patch

Unlike get_the_content(), get_the_content_feed() does have the the_content filter in it. Looks good to me. Might be worth a $content = get_the_content_feed() then echo $content, to save the extra processing.

Replying to nacin:

Might be worth a $content = get_the_content_feed() then echo $content, to save the extra processing.

Done in 15604.2.diff​.

In [21235]:

Use the_content_feed() when looking for zero-length post content for RSS2 feeds. Now you can have blank posts with content generated by the_content filters. props SergeyBiryukov. fixes #15604

See also #10509, possibly related/duplicate. Two for the price of one?

Replying to mdgl:

See also #10509, possibly related/duplicate.

Indeed, thanks.