RSS feed won’t show Full Text

Me too, I already enable full text feed but it just doesn’t so full text. This problem seem to be long time ago, but I started to notice it recently.

Sigh.

If you enabled full-text, then it is showing full-text. Really. No, really, we know what we’re talking about here.

The fact that you don’t see the full text in Firefox or IE is not the issue here. Try it in a real feed-reader instead.

If you know how to look at the feed directly, look at what is inside the <content:encoded> sections.

And if you use FeedBurner, then you may want to check your settings on there.

Sorry, but I am having the same problem. Have attempted to read the feed in Google Reader, Feedly, NetnewsWire, bloglines. Still shows only summaries. Unsubscribed, then subscribed. Same.

I’m using feedburner but the service for providing summaries instead of full text is not active. I triple-checked this as well as quadruple-checked whether or not the wp 2.6 setting was specifying full-text. it is.

I also see several posts in the forums with this problems and so far the first two pages of them indicate the issue is unresolved.

suggestions? plug-in conflict?

i am having exactly the same issue. using 2.6 too, full text is ticked on the reading options.. the really annoying and frustrating thing for me is in google reader, for example, i get full text. in IE, i get full text and in firefox i get the optional excerpt.

now – i wouldnt normally mind to be honest, but i have just been made a partner in the new mog music network and my posts are all showing up as excerpts = https://mog.com/blog_post/content/106

even when you click on one of the posts: https://mog.com/blog_post/content/106/181627 you still only see the excerpt.

ive looked at other peoples sites within the mog network who use wordpress and their feeds are coming in fine – with pictures, plugins and everything.

im 99.000% sure that feedburner is set up correctly – on ‘optimize’ its the Browser Friendly service right? The feed views great on my feedburner preview when im logged in…

my site address is https://www.thelineofbestfit.com and my feedburner is https://feeds.feedburner.com/thelineofbestfit

i have tried everything that the above people have suggested – and am having the exact same issues as rickpowell and PoPSiCLe

please help!! ??

I’ve seen quite a few forum posts like these and the common denominator is usually that they are using feedburner. If you just can’t get it fixed and you absolutely must have full feeds, then consider not using feedburner.

ok – ive taken your advice and deleted my feedburner address.

my feed is now at https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/feed

to me – it’s looking the same as it was on feedburner. and my posts are still coming in as excerpts here: https://mog.com/blog_post/content/106

any ideas?

I’m having the exact same problems with my feedburner feeds. I’ve checked both WordPress Options and Feedburner options both say full text and always have.

https://www.livingdowntowndesmoines.com

I’m having the same problem. New to WordPress so my only experience is 2.6 version, self-host. Full-text is checked, I don’t use Feedburner. NetNewsWire, Google Reader and Vienna are giving excerpts only, no images, and an awful image “caption” line. I migrated from TypePad and never had a feed problem so hoping to find a solution here.

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I’m fixed. When I looked at the feed source it was defaulting to rss 0.92. I read on one of these forums that WP feeds would not display full text or images unless it was rss 2.0. I got the information from the theme support forum about how to make rss 2.0 the default for my blog.

I never had this issue with TypePad. The feeds always displayed full text with images using rss 1.0. I’m so grateful to whoever posted this hint, buried among hundreds that I’ve scanned trying to find the answer. I hope it resolves this issue for some of you.

I still have the same problem, and when I check the xml source of my feed, it is clearly shown as RSS 2.0 yet only the excerpt is displayed…

Following marywy2’s advice above – ensure you are pulling a 2.0 feed into feedburner – solved my problem right away. If you’re also using the feedburner plugin, make sure that you get the RSS 2.0 feed address from there, not the default.

I’m having the exact same issue as everyone else here. However, I don’t have feedburner installed, my rss version is at 2.0 and I have full text selected in the settings.

Is there anything else I can do to fix this? From looking at the source it seems that the feed is only showing the description instead of showing the whole content.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Argh!

WordPress DOES show the full content if you have the full text feed turned on in Settings->Reading.

Really. I’m not making this up. There is no bug here.

Look at the code:

<?php if (get_option('rss_use_excerpt')) : ?>
		<description><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss() ?>]]></description>
<?php else : ?>
		<description><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss() ?>]]></description>
	<?php if ( strlen( $post->post_content ) > 0 ) : ?>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_content() ?>]]></content:encoded>
	<?php else : ?>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss() ?>]]></content:encoded>
	<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

That says if you’re set to only use the excerpt, then you only get the description. If you’re set to use full feed, then you get both the description (which has the excerpt in it) AND the content:encoded (which has the full content). See that “the_content();” code? That is the FULL CONTENT.

See? IT WORKS. Stop posting that it is broken, because IT’S NOT BROKEN. Really. No fooling.

If you think it’s not working, then you’re doing it wrong.

fyi, I figured it out. You need to go into the feed-rss2.php file and make some changes.

Incorrect code removed, because somebody else might break their feed this way too.

Crul: No, wrong, that is incorrect. The description should not contain the full content, it should contain the excerpt. The full content is in the content:encoded field.

Your feed now contains two copies of the exact same thing, which it should not have.