Title: Problem with RSS
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problem with RSS

 *  [patrickw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrickw/)
 * (@patrickw)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-1/)
 * I am not sure what is going on with the RSS feed but something is wrong.
 * When I view my RSS through an RSS reader I get this:
 * ———————-
    Wow. I just had to post this. It is on slashdot too so you might have
   already seen it: “When Doug Heckman was installing a PC Pitstop program, he actually
   read the EULA. In it, he found a clause stating that he could get financial compensation
   if he e-mailed PC Pitstop. The result: […] ———————-
 * But on my site it look slike this
 * ———————-
    Wow. I just had to post this.
 * It is on slashdot too so you might have already seen it:
 * “When Doug Heckman was installing a PC Pitstop program, he actually read the 
   EULA. In it, he found a clause stating that he could get financial compensation
   if he e-mailed PC Pitstop. The result: etc…etc..
 * ————————–
    Why wordpress ignoring the breaks and such?

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 *  Thread Starter [patrickw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrickw/)
 * (@patrickw)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-1/#post-153886)
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-1/#post-153898)
 * Yes, the RSS feed comes through as plain text, not HTML. To get the RSS feed 
   to come through as HTML, open wp-rss2.php in a text editor and change:
    `<?php
   the_excerpt_rss() ?>`
 * to
 * `<?php the_content_rss() ?>`
 * You can do that to wp-rss.php, wp-rdf.php, and wp-atom.php as well. For more 
   info, see this:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content_rss](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content_rss)
 * For a list of “approved” text editors, see this:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Text_editor](http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Text_editor)
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-1/#post-153902)
 * Or set your feed to full text (Options > Reading).
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-1/#post-153904)
 * But that would be just full text, no formatting or HTML links, wouldn’t it?
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-1/#post-153908)
 * The RSS2 file in 1.5 (at least in my copy) is using `the_content()` for displaying
   post content in full text mode.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-1/#post-153920)
 * Wow, another useful new feature which snuck in under the radar.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-rss-1/#post-153920)
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