Quick'n dirty : make WordPress post entirely available on planets

Here is a tip if you use WordPress on hosted services (i.e. no access to source code) and your blog post aren’t appearing entirely on Planets.

When your post is finished, click on the Preview button. Highlight your article’s content, right-click on it and select View selection source (probably different if you use something else than Firefox). Then simply copy and paste the HTML code in the Summary text box which is under Advanced options, almost at the bottom of the page where you write/edit your article.

That way, you will force the description tag in the RSS file to contain your article. Indeed, some Planet aggregator extracts the text from this tag rather than from content:encoded which WordPress uses for storing post.

Comments 5

  1. Ivan N. Zlatev wrote:

    Or just apply this patch and don’t bother doing the above:

    — wp-includes/feed-rss2.php 2008-05-26 09:31:36.155750000 -0700
    +++ wp-includes/feed-rss2.php 2008-07-12 05:51:18.631156000 -0700
    @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@

    <![CDATA[]]>

    – <![CDATA[]]>
    + <![CDATA[]]>
    post_content ) > 0 ) : ?>
    <![CDATA[]]>

    Posted 22 oct 2008 at 13 h 49 min
  2. Ivan N. Zlatev wrote:

    Okay WP stripped the tags, so lets do it this way:

    http://pastebin.ca/1233798

    Also I just realized that you probably don’t have access to your WP setup since you are on wordpress.com, so that won’t probably work for you.

    Posted 22 oct 2008 at 13 h 52 min
  3. garuma wrote:

    Indeed. I should have precised it’s more for hosted services like wordpress.com (which some people on Monologue seems to use).

    Posted 22 oct 2008 at 15 h 10 min
  4. Valeuf wrote:

    Are you sure you don’t want I host your blog ?? :p

    Posted 05 nov 2008 at 6 h 26 min
  5. Vardis wrote:

    I will, if you want!

    Posted 09 nov 2008 at 12 h 08 min

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