Hey all you BNN bloggers

Do you have the ability to limit your RSS feed to headlines only? I’m running Wordpress 2.3.1 and am SOL for now. Any ideas?

Tags: BLOGGING

1 steveegg // Jul 23, 2008 at 2:49 pm

You do send out just the summary on the feed, right? I know it’s a pain, but putting anything in the “excerpt” field will cause that excerpt to go out instead of the first 55 words.

You could also hack the wp-feed file, but that would have to be re-hacked for every update to WordPress.
2 J. Gravelle // Jul 23, 2008 at 2:55 pm

There’s a plugin called “the_excerpt_reloaded() ” (see: http://www.willoller.com/limiting-title-and-excerpt-length-with-wordpress/) that will give you granular control over your RSS…

-jjg
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3 steveegg // Jul 23, 2008 at 4:26 pm

Just sent along a solution for that part of the problem. Let’s see if the scrape is beyond the feed.