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September 17, 2003

Need Help!

I have the following comment over on my site, but no clue what the answer is - help!
"I see your excerpt feed RSS URL, but I don't see a URL for a full feed RSS. Do you have one? Thanks!" - MAC from thegofish.com (a pretty decent SOL blog)

Posted by: Daniel at 08:14 PM | Comments (168) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I keep hearing about the RSS feeds too, but haven't taken the time to do any research. I'm interested in the answer as well.

On the other hand, what's the little buttons for 'blogshares' and so on that I see on some sites?

Posted by: Ted @ at September 17, 2003 11:11 PM

2 Blogshares is a website that tells you what a "share" in your blog is worth.

Posted by: Jennifer @ at September 18, 2003 12:21 AM

3 Blogshares is like a stock market game--you buy and shares of peoples's blogs, the worth of which are determined by incoming and outgoing links.

I have no idea what RSS is.

Posted by: Susie @ at September 18, 2003 01:28 AM

4 I'm not sure that MT does a full-feed RSS. I'll check.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at September 18, 2003 03:32 AM

5 Oooh...a new contest. Jeopardy blogging. You get the answer and have to guess the question!

Posted by: Stevie @ at September 18, 2003 05:50 AM

6 One thing you can do is change the number of words in the automatic excerpt setting in your Config page to, say, 1000. Unless you suddenly turn into Bill Whittle, that should do the trick.

You can also mess with your RSS templates. If you decide to try this, let me know how it turns out.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at September 18, 2003 09:54 AM

7 Figured it out!!!
Changing the excerpt length works, but here's another way. In your XML (or RDF - whichever you want to change) template you'll see a place with the tag $MTEntryExcerpt. Change this to $MTEntryBody. It won't include the extended part, but I'm not perfect, so my blog shouldn't be either. I added it to my site below the other feed.

Posted by: Daniel @ at September 18, 2003 01:05 PM

8 I thought of that. I think. I think I thought of that.

Yes indeed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at September 18, 2003 06:52 PM

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