Wordpress question: how is feed summary derived ?

[Harvey Segal]

Wordpress has an option (in Settings/Reading) for articles
in a feed to show the Full Text or a Summary.

If Summary is chosen how is it derived ?

Would it use the content in the Excerpt section ?

And if there is no excerpt would it use the first x
characters of the post or up to the 'More' mark if there is
one ?

Harvey

[PeteHarrison]

Hi Harvey,

AFAIK it uses the first x characters of the post, so get your keywords and aff links in at the beginning

Pete

[Quentin]

Better still do full text as you will be surprised at the conversions.

Have a read of this and some of the comments.

Why Full Text Feeds Actually Increase Page Views (The Freakonomics Explanation) | Techdirt

We personally found our readership and RSS optin increased with full text feeds.

Quentin

[Harvey Segal]

Originally Posted by Quentin

Better still do full text as you will be surprised at the conversions.

I take it therefore that I would need to ensure I have links
to my sites or products within the full text whereas these
could be omitted (from the full text) if I just used
summaries as my blog has the necessary links in the sidebar.


Harvey



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[Harvey Segal]

I have found the answer about summaries here
Excerpt WordPress Codex

The manual WordPress excerpt is sometimes confused with the
automatic excerpt or with the teaser (the part of a post
that appears on the front page when you use the More tag).
While both are related to the manual excerpt, they are
different from it.

The relationship between the three is this: When a post has
no manual excerpt, WordPress looks for a teaser and uses
that as an excerpt. If the post has no teaser either,
WordPress generates automatically an excerpt by selecting
the first 55 words of the post.

Which leads to another question.

Can you override the setting of Full Text/Summary
for an individual post ?

Harvey

[Quentin]

If you provide a summary you are requiring the reader to click again which tends to mean they will not see your links but in a full text summary all your links will be seen.

Here is my rss full text summary.

Website Marketing For Better Results

Quentin

[Harvey Segal]

Originally Posted by Quentin

If you provide a summary you are requiring the reader to click again which tends to mean they will not see your links but in a full text summary all your links will be seen.

Yes - what I was getting at is that my original thought was
to occasionally add useful content to my blog WITHOUT a need
for links as visitors to my blog would see links to my
ebooks and other sites in the sidebar and other menus.

However this would not be a good idea, it would seem, if I
offer Full Text as the content appearing on other blogs will
have no links.

Another question: can you override the setting of Full
Text/Summary for an individual post ?


Harvey

[Harvey Segal]

Originally Posted by Creative Thinker

I suppose it would use the first x characters of the post or up to the 'More' mark if there is one.

I actually answered (my own question) earlier in the thread

Harvey