Wordpress question: how is feed summary derived ?

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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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author Harvey Segal
      Originally Posted by Quentin View Post

      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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      • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author Harvey Segal
      Originally Posted by Quentin View Post

      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
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  • Profile picture of the author Harvey Segal
    Originally Posted by Creative Thinker View Post

    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
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