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.

[dd32]

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

[nacin]

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.

[SergeyBiryukov]

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​.

[markjaquith]

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

[mdgl]

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

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to mdgl:

See also #10509, possibly related/duplicate.

Indeed, thanks.