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Opened 18 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

Last modified 17 years ago

#6679 closed defect (bug) (invalid)

Add back in instructional text for Syndication Feeds

Reported by: hexley Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: General Version: 2.5
Severity: normal Keywords: RSS summary full text
Cc: Focuses:

Description

Pre 2.5 wp-admin used to say:
Note: If you use the <--more--> feature, it will cut off posts in RSS feeds.

This at least, if you read it carefully, could tell the user that "Summary" would show a hard coded summary value of text in your feeds, and using "Full text" will then either show the entire post in feeds, or break at the <--more--> mark.

I suggest new verbiage:
Note: "Summary" will hard code your feeds to x words in length. Selecting "Full Text" will show your entire post in your feeds, or break the feed at <--more-->

I am not sure which is correct, to use <--more--> or <!--more-->, in pre 2.5, <--more--> is mentioned, in 2.5 and forward, even in admin, the more button puts in <!--more-->

This needs clarification.

Change History (1)

#1 in reply to: ↑ description @ionfish
18 years ago

  • Milestone 2.5.1
  • Resolutioninvalid
  • Status newclosed

Replying to hexley:

Pre 2.5 wp-admin used to say:
Note: If you use the <--more--> feature, it will cut off posts in RSS feeds.

It doesn't do this anymore, so the text is redundant. The summary will use an excerpt if one is provided; otherwise it will be generated from the article content.

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