RSS summary problem / question

  • brap

    (@brap)


    17 years, 4 months ago

    I have a question about displaying the summary of the RSS feed in my wordpress blog. I have gone to Settings->Reading and in the section that says ‘For each articles in a feed, show:’ I selected Summary.

    When I view the feed in firefox, I see the summary of the feed. However, when I use my News Reader (Akregator) I see the entire article.

    When I viewed the RSS source, I noticed it displayed both a summary and the full content, as follows:

    <description><![CDATA[ brief summary of content […]]]></description>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[ entire blog entry with images and all]]></content:encoded>

    I guess my question is, is this a bug in WordPress 2.7? If not, then what exactly is the Summary option in Settings->Reading->’For each articles in a feed, show:’ doing exactly?

    How can I just show the description without having to modify the rss pages in wordpresss?

    Thanks!
    Ryan

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  • Thread Starter brap

    (@brap)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    I think I might have discovered a clue as to what is going on.

    I get a lot of ping back and track back spam, though I have my blog set up so that I have to approve comments before they appear, this spam never makes it onto a page.

    However, from time to time, some of this spam is somehow causing the setting Settings->Reading->’For each articles in a feed, show:’ to be reset to ‘Full Text’.

    Several times I have set that option to ‘Summary’, and for the past 2 days have been logging in to check the status, and after periods of high spam activity, this setting gets reset to ‘full text’.

    At first I thought I was going crazy and I was just making a mistake, or something stupid, but today I made a concious effort to write down the times I saved the option as ‘summary’, and sure enough a few hours later it would be set back to ‘full text’.

    I guess I will turn off ping backs and track backs for now and see if that prevents this bug from occurring. I like to keep it on just to track of the incoming links these spammers are kind enough to place on their spam site to my blog.

    Is wordpress aware of this?

    Thanks!
    Ryan

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