WordPress Plugin – DualFeeds
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DualFeeds turns your feed into two separate feeds (full post and summary), allowing your readers to subscribe the feed of their choice.
Features
- Allows you to offer readers both a full post feed and a summary feed
- Works for all feeds (category, tag, author, etc) not just main site feed
- Sidebar widget with links to Full Post, Summary and Comments feeds
- Optional links to Full Post, Summary & Comments feeds after each post
- Feed requests for each of the three feeds can be redirected to the appropriate FeedBurner URL (use it with or instead of FeedSmith)
- Option to turn on feed autodiscovery links for each of the three feeds
Why Use It?
Some of your subscribers prefer having the full post to read now, others prefer summaries they can skim through now and follow up later. Without DualFeeds you must choose which format to offer them.
DualFeeds lets you offer both formats, so your subscribers can make their own choice.
How It Works
DualFeeds catches all feed requests (except comments) and formats the output: By default it strips the <!–more–> tag giving the full post. If it finds dualfeed=2 in the URL, it creates a summary as follows (in order of precedence, first to last):
- The extract is used, if one exists.
- The post is cut at the <!–more–> tag, if it exists.
- The post is cut after a user-definable number of characters.
Does It Work With FeedBurner?
Yes! And DualFeeds 1.1 and above can redirect feed requests for the Full Post, Summary and Comments feeds to the appropriate FeedBurner URL. Use DualFeeds to redirect the second feed only and leave the rest to FeedSmith (or similar plugin), or get DualFeeds to redirect all three.
See the Using DualFeeds With FeedBurner article for more information on using DualFeeds with FeedBurner.
Requirements
Should work on WordPress 2.x.x. Tested on WordPress 2.3, 2.2.2 and 2.1.3.
The “Full text” option must be selected in Options -> Reading.
Installation
- Download the dualfeeds-1.11.zip file and unzip it.
- Upload the dualfeeds folder to your site’s wp-content/plugins folder.
- Activate the plugin within WordPress.
Upgrade
- Download the dualfeeds-1.11.zip file and unzip it.
- Upload the dualfeeds folder to your site’s wp-content/plugins folder, overwriting the existing files.
- De-activate the plugin within WordPress, then activate it again immediately (to apply defaults)
Options
See the DualFeeds Options Guide for detailed information on Options.
Usage
The first feed is accessed through your normal feed URL. The ‘second feed’ is accessed by adding dualfeed=2 to the URL, eg:
http://www.yoursite.com/feed/?dualfeed=2(if using permalinks)http://www.yoursite.com/?feed=rss2&dualfeed=2(no permalinks)
There’s no need to guess – the first and second feed URLs for your main site feed are shown in the DualFeeds Options page.
The usage of dualfeed=2 applies to all feeds (eg category feeds, etc). For information on using other feeds, see this article by Lorelle VanFossen.
Automatically Adding A Link To The ‘Second Feed’
DualFeeds includes a sidebar widget, which prominently displays links to the Full Post, Summary and Comments feeds. This can be added through the Presentation -> Widgets screen, or can be called by adding the following to sidebar.php in your theme folder:
<?php if(function_exists('dualfeeds_sidebar')) {dualfeeds_sidebar();} ?>
For information on the widget’s options, see the DualFeeds Options Guide.
Advanced users will probably want to set the link up manually, to tie in with their existing link / theme.
Manually Adding A Link To The ‘Second Feed’
You can manually add a link to the ‘second feed’ underneath the existing link to the normal feed.
You will need to find where the existing link is set up, copy and paste the code for the existing link, then add the dualfeed=2 parameter to the second link. You should also change the descriptions to indicate which feed is which.
Where this needs to be done depends on where your existing feed link is setup. If it is in the sidebar, you will need to edit one of the following:
- sidebar.php in your theme folder (if you don’t use widgets)
- widgets.php in the wp-includes folder (if you use widgets in 2.2+)
- wp-content/plugins/widgets/widgets.php (if you use widgets pre 2.2)
You could use just enter the appropriate URL from the DualFeeds Option page, but it is better to let WordPress work out the URL (in case you change your permalink structure later). For example:
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>?dualfeed=2" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">Entries RSS (Summary)</abbr>'); ?></a></li>
&dualfeed=2 in place of ?dualfeed=2 above.Compatibility
DualFeeds works with FeedBurner’s FeedSmith plugin and Flagrant Disregard’s Feedburner Plugin, although it includes most of their functionality and can replace them.
The Full Text Feed plugin may strip the <!–more–> tag before DualFeeds gets the content, meaning DualFeeds cannot use the more tag to create the summary. Most of Full Text Feed’s features are included in DualFeeds.
DualFeeds has not been extensively tested with other feed plugins but I do not envisage problems. If you do encounter problems, please let me know.
Related Plugins
If you simply want to offer a full post feed, rather than BOTH a full post feed AND a summary feed, then I recommend the Full Text Feed plugin.
Troubleshooting
If viewing the feed in a web browser, you may not see changes to the settings work until you clear your browser cache (Tools->Clear Private Data in Firefox, Tools->Internet Options->Delete Files in Internet Explorer).
Most modern web browsers only show summaries when viewing feeds, even if the full post is actually in the feed. Right-click on the page and choose View Source to verify whether the feed contains the full post or not.
Support
This plugin is officially not supported (due to my time constraints), but if you leave a comment below or contact me, I should be able to help.
Password Protected Posts
WordPress does not include the content of Password protected posts in feeds, but there are some reports of a bug where the content does appear. This plugin ensures that it does not appear.
Acknowledgements
This plugin was inspired by the discussion in the comments of RT Cunningham’s Should There Be Advertisements In Blog Feeds? RT also requested the addition of the link to the full post at the end of entries in the summary feed (added in v1.1).
The sidebar widget & feed links after each post were inspired by Glen Allsop’s Increase Your RSS Subscribers with Simple Tweaks (link no longer accessible).
To provide software, you need people willing to bravely step in and test beta versions. Thanks to Dmitry for helping me track down an obscure bug in v1.0.
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How can I deactivate the building of a …/feed/?dualfeed=2? When I deactivate the plugin in the admin-area, the new generated feed with the URL …/feed/?dualfeed=2 is still available. In my option after deactivation of the plugin there should be left only the standard feed. Thanks for Your help!
Hi Manfred,
You don’t need to deactivate it, because it’s not really there. There is really only one feed – the ‘second feed’ is virtual.
The key point here is that the feed will return entries whatever parameter is passed. For example, if you go to:
http://www.scratch99.com/feed/?thisdoesn'tdoanything
Then you’ll get the feed. The ?thisdoesntdoanything is ignored. You can add anything there and you’ll still get the feed. That’s the default beahviour of WordPress and has nothing to do with the DualFeeds plugin.
So if you had added the dualfeed=2 before you activated the plugin, you would still have got the feed (formatted in the default way). It’s just if the plugin is activated, it looks for dualfeed=2 and if it finds it, it formats the feed response to be summary only.
If you deactivate the plugin, adding dualfeed=2 to the URL will still work (just as it always did), but there is no plugin, so it won’t pick up the dualfeed=2 and change the format. The format will be whatever it was before.
I hope I’ve explained this adequately – if not let me know.
Thanks Stephen for the excellent plugin! I’ll let my blog readers know about it.
Many thanks for your quick reply! Your explanation covers every aspect of my question. Therefore I am overall “satisfied”. If I do not use your plug-in I will recommend it to others for use because it can be very helpfull publishing rss-feeds individually. Thanks and greetings from Austria.
OK, I installed the plug-in today and have come across a strange problem.
I installed the plug-in using the One-Click Install plug-in and followed your directions to the letter (I did choose the “Switch Feeds” option so as not to disrupt the existing RSS feed).
However, the “original” feed now comes up “blank” – there are entries for each new post, but in Outlook 2007 you only get the entry and a “View post” link – there is no article text (at all!). If you view the original feed’s URL with a web browser (specifically Firefox), the feed itself also appears blank – there are entries for each post, but no text. If I disable your plug-in, the original feed works perfectly again.
While all this is going on, your “full-text” feed is working perfectly, BTW.
Any idea what’s going on here?
Hi Jim,
Sorry to hear you’re having problems – I’ll do my best to sort them out asap. I see you’re using 2.2.2 of WordPress, which should be fine.
From looking at your site, it seems you don’t use extracts or the more tag. This means the summary feed will be truncated after the number of characters you set in the Maximum Summary Length parameter.
By default, this is set to 500. What is it set to now? The only way I can replicate the problem you experienced is if I change this to 0 or put a character in front of the number (eg a500), which causes it to be evaluated as 0.
I think this is the key to your problem. First, check the current parameter setting. If it is still 500, then we can try changing the code to use a number rather than the parameter, as follows:
If you are comfortable editing php files, go to line 73 of dualfeeds.php and change
$content = substr($content,0,$dualfeeds_options['df_summarylength']);to
$content = substr($content,0,500);Save the file and upload it to the wp-content/plugins/dualfeeds folder, overwriting the original. This should fix the problem.
If you’re not comfortable with this, no problem, I will make the change and email you a new plugin to try.
Note: After you make changes to the settings or dualfeeds.php, you may not see the results until you clear the browser cache (as per the troubleshooting area above)
Thanks for your reply!
Actually, I have a different problem now… but more on that later.
I initially had the plug-in set to swap feeds with the 500 character limit. I posted a couple of test posts, and found that the plug-in was cutting off the FULL-TEXT feed at 500 characters. I then went back into the Options and changed the limit from “500″ to blank. I guess I got confused at some point as to which feed was which, or I stopped checking the summary feed or something. In any case, I disabled the plug-in. When I re-enabled it, it reset to all defaults, and everything was OK.
However, after re-enabling it, choosing “swap feeds” and setting the total number of characters for the summary feed at 50,000, the plug-in ignores the MORE tag. Is this because of the large number of characters I’ve set in the summary feed?
I ask because I *do* use the MORE tag, but most of my recent posts have been quite short. I don’t really have a set length for my posts. Sometimes I’ll post a couple of paragraphs and insert a MORE tag; other times I’ll post a long article with no MORE tag.
I’d really like it if the plug-in could use only the MORE tag as a cut-off, and not an arbitrary number of characters.
Thanks for your help!
Jim
Hi Jim,
First problem: The blank parameter was of course the problem. As for the Full Text feed being cutting off – the only time I’ve seen something like this was caused by the broswer cache (see Troubleshooting above). The feed itself was fine, but my browser was showing the old feed from before I changed the settings. This may be what happened for you. Anyway, I’m glad it’s okay now.
New problem: The plugin is not finding your
<!--more-->tag in the post content. I can’t find it either. Of course when I look at your site, WordPress will have stripped out the tag itself, but there are things it leaves behind instead.When I look at the source of your home page, I should see something like:
<a href="http://www.scratch99.com/2007/08/buy-me-a-coffee-sell-you-a-link/#more-18" class="more-link" rel="nofollow">Read the rest of this entry »</a>
Note the #more-18 in the link to the post page. This is created by WordPress when it processes the more tag and tells the link to go to the #more-18 book mark on the page when it gets there. When I look at the source of your post pages, I should see the corresponding bookmark, eg:
<a id="more-18" rel="nofollow"></a>.I can’t see any of this.
I’ve been through all 10 posts on your home page and the full post appears on the home page for all of them. If you are using the more tag, then these should be cut off wherever you used the more tag.
Of course, your home page and your feed only include the last 10 posts – maybe you used the more tag on earlier posts? Or could you be using another plugin that strips the more tag before DualFeeds gets to it?
Anyway, I’m confident that the problem is with the
<!--more-->tag not being found. If the plugin can’t find it, it truncates the post content after whatever is in the parameter – at the moment, you’ve got this set to 50,000, so you’ll get the whole post.Nice plugin, when I get a bit of time I’ll see if I can make it work with Feedburner
Thanks Gregg. Let me know how you go. I don’t use Feedburner myself, but I’m thinking of trying it out sometime. So I’ll probably look into this myself in the near future.
Gregg, I’ve now written a Guide To Using DualFeeds With FeedBurner and added a link to this above. There is a small potential problem for users of the FeedSmith plugin (or similar plugins), which is explained in the post, but apart from this, it all works fine.
Hi,
I installed the dualfeed pulg-in but it publishes only summary:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mekaniktrk-Full
Or you can check out the original dualfeed URL:
http://www.mekanikturk.com/feed/?dualfeed=2
This too publishes only the summary not full text. I have checked the full text option in WP reading options. I still have no luck.
What should I do to provide full-text feed to my readers?
Hi Mturk,
What are you using to view the feeds? I checked both your URLs and they give me the full-text. If you are using Firefox, it only shows you the summary – press Ctrl+U to see the source and you’ll see the full text amongst all the tags. At least that’s what I get.
Note: The dualfeed=2 url is being picked up by the FeedSmith or similar plugin and redirected to http://feeds.feedburner.com/MekanikTurk (not http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mekaniktrk-Full).
As I said above, both seem to be full text so the real question may be why isn’t one a summary feed, but I’ll leave that issue until I hear back from you about whether you can see full text for both. Note I may be out of touch for a day or so now.
A dual feeds plug in? I think I’ll have to check this out. I enjoy reading the full article but I know some of my readers like to skim. This might be just what they are looking for.
Hi Opal, Thanks for stopping by. For the record, you left the third ever comment on this site (and the first one that wasn’t just saying ‘nice post’). So I like seeing you back!
Hope you like the plugin. There’s a new version coming out later this week (finished, but I need to write some documentation), which will have some extra features.
Full or partial feed controversy visit
This sounds like a great plugin… I likes the idea.
It definitely offers more flexibility to the feed reader on which type of feed to choose.
Thank you.
Wow this is awesome, I think it is very valuable to have both options on your website. Thanks for posting the how to I plan to impliment it soon.
Motorola, Thanks. I hope it’s useful. If you have any questions let me know.
thanks for plugin.. add my su and digg fav list
Thanks Gregg for the nice plugin. Downloaded it, i’ll install the plugin tomorrow.
Thanks again
Andly
Andly, You’re welcome, I hope it helps – although my name is Stephen not Greg. But thanks anyway.
I’m sorry Stephen
i have read all comments before and i was a little confused.
So, Thank you, Stephen, great job!!
Andly, No worries!
thanku Stephen for the plugin…
had seen it on other blogs n sites, wondered if i cud apply it on my blog too..
thank u for making it possible for me..
Vaibhav, Thanks. I hope it works well for you.
Mycooky ??,
If you’re asking how it decides what the summary will be, it works like this:
If you entered an extract when the post was written (in the Write Post page in WordPress), then this will be the summary. If you didn’t enter an extract then:
If you used the <!–more–> in the post when you wrote it, the plugin will use everything before <!–more–> as the summary. If you didn’t use the <!–more–> tag then:
The summary will be created by cutting the post after 500 characters (actually the end of the last word before 500 characters). You can change how many characters in the Options page (Maximum Summary Length parameter).
Hope this helps…
Hmm, I typed nihao in Chinese characters in the last message, but I got an error message. Now it’s showing ?? instead of the Chinese characters. I thought my WordPress installation was set up to handle Chinese characters. I’ll have to look into this further.
I have been looking for something like this for a site I am working on. Thanks! Just seen your Spam protection too, that is a great system!
Ok nice plugin but what about subcategory feeds? After activating your plugin accessing a subcategory feed using the following syntax no longer works:
http://domain.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=17
Is there any workaround?
Marc – Thanks!
Oliver,
I’ve had a quick look at this – feeds with URLs such as:
http://domain.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=17seem to work fine, unless you have FeedBurner redirection enabled. In this case, the category feed is redirected to the FeedBurner URL for the main site feed. Is this what you’re talking about?
I think I’ve tracked down why it’s happening in the code and I’ll try to fix it in the next couple of weeks (it should be a quick fix, but I’m swamped at the moment).
Note, if you use
http://domain.com/feed?cat=17it will work.
Hey Stephen, Its a real commendable job. With RSS becoming the pulse of todays visitor, this plugin is a must for all new bloggers. Its definitely a value add to the RSS feeds offered on the site.
Must appreciate you for sharing this valuable plugin.
Thanks
shrkscn, Thanks… RSS is definitely becoming more and more important.
Thanks for the plugin. I really appreciate it.
I just switched to a new theme and now the title for the text at the bottom of posts is formatted differently than all other posts. What would be helpful is if you could implement one of the following:
Use a header tag (e.g. <h5>) instead of simply using a div.Allow the style to be specified on the admin page.
I replaced the strong tag around the title with h5 which displays something acceptable but it would be nice if I didn’t have to modify the plugin. Another option that might be nice would be to display borders (e.g. a box) around the text, shade the text, indent the text, etc.
Thanks,
David
Hi David,
You can enter HTML in the Text At Bottom Of Post parameter on the Options page. For example, you could enter: <h5>Subscribe To Site:</h5>
The hard coded strong tags may mess things up, so in the next version (hopefully a couple of weeks), I’ll remove the strong tags from the plugin code and move them into the default parameter. That will mean that the default parameter will be: <strong>Subscribe To Site:</strong> and the strong tags can be removed if they’re not wanted.
If you want a box or shading around the Subscribe to Site text, you can also use this approach, ie: put div or p tags in the parameter with inline CSS. However, it seems I didn’t escape the parameter properly, so you can’t use quote marks in the current version.
For example you would have to enter:
<p style=background:#EEEEEE>Subscribe To Site:</p>
rather than:
<p style=”background:#EEEEEE”>Subscribe To Site:</p>
I’ll look to fix this in the next version too. Hopefully that will make it nicer… I may do a total overhaul at some point in the future, but that won’t be too soon because of time constraints…
Thank you Stephen for this great plugin.
I have a special question.
Is there an easy way to add “
<strong>- Full Posts</strong>” to the feed title so it would read something like<em>sitename - Full Posts</em>in the feedreader?Thanks in advance,
Miki
Miki,
I’ll look into this. I’m not too hopeful, as DualFeeds works by manipulating the content of the feed entries. It doesn’t touch the feed title. That’s created elsewhere and I’m not sure if is possible to change it via a plugin (my guess is that it’s not possible). However, I agree it would be a big improvement, so if it’s possible, I’ll add it.
Miki, Good news and bad news!
First, the good news: There is a filter which would let the plugin alter the feed title, based on whether it’s the summary or not.
Now, the bad news: There is a bug in WordPress which means I can’t use the filter. It’s scheduled to be fixed in WordPress 2.5.
So, I can’t provide this functionality now, but I may be able to once WordPress 2.5 is rolled out.
That is a really great idea, I never know what to put. I currently use full feeds but for some reason it displays only summaries in google reader but the other readers display full? Weird.
You have some really useful plug ins on your site…What is the one called which shows the preview as you write? That is really cool.
Thanks again, if you need anything from me just ask! I owe ya
Hi Jacob,
I had a quick look at your site to see if I could work out why you’re only getting summaries. You don’t seem to use the <!–more–> tag in your posts, so I don’t think it’s WordPress doing it…
The most likely cause is that it’s FeedBurner. They have an option (somewhere in the settings for each feed) which burns summary feeds. I this is probably the most likely cause.
The preview plugin is Live Comment Preview. Not a bad plugin..
By the way, nice site! And it’s always good to see another Aussie…
I like the idea of easily offering feed variations, but am wishing there was more control, like specifying the number of posts listed in each. I.e., Full: 2, Summary: 10, Comments: 15. Something like that. I would find this very useful in adding extra value to each feed version. Not sure if that’s beyond the scope of this plugin.
Whou!!! Nice plugin. Is it tested on wp 2.3.3?
Artur,
No, not yet, but there will almost certainly be no problem – the changes in 2.3.3 should not affect the plugin in any way.
.45, sorry I missed your comment there.
It may be possible to change the number of items in the comment feed by hacking the WordPress core files. The full post and summary feeds are actually the same feed, just formatted differently, so it would be much harder to return a different number of posts. Probably not something I can do at this stage.
Of course, most feed readers cache the old posts, so even if you could acheive 2, 10, 15 items (as above), most people will see every item anyway…
Great plugin. Thanks.
Pavel, Thanks…
wow…..nice plugin…it worked in my localhost…will surely use in my blog..thanks a lott for this plugin…
Hi Roshan,
Thanks. It’s been a while since I stopped by your blog, because I’ve been moving from China to Australia.
Nice Job Stephen! I got this mod last year and did some testing in different blogs. Worked like a charm.
I am currently using feedburner to display my latest blog posts in the homepage. Is it possible to tweak your mod so that I can also show posts from specific categories anywhere?
Thanks for your time and help
Hi Herbal,
I’m not sure I understand your question, but WordPress has category feeds which may help you. Just go to the category page you want and add /feed/ to the URL and you will probably get the feed for just that category. Hope that helps…
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for your reply. What i was talking about was doing something better than what I’ve done in the homepage of my store. See the top left side under News. Basically, I am displaying blog posts using feedburner (You cannot see the logo/link because it was hidden using CSS). The main draw back is that it has to call the RSS post titles to from their server, which for slow connections can be a nightmare. Until the info is not completely retrieved from their server, the entire homepage will not render/show-up properly.
So, that’s where I thought your plugin may come in hand with some tweaking. Instead of using feedburner, I envision using the direct blog’s feed. This has been done in php and works great (fast). But it’s a problem for stores using html, smarty or folks who are not very familiar with coding.
The same idea applies to showing posts from categories from other blogs.
Hope this is clearer. Regards,
Anyway, thanks for writing up the plugin – I hope it turns out to be useful to people. Personally, I’m full post feed kind of guy…
Hey Steve, i’m thinking about biting the bullet and finally starting a blog…lol. But i was wondering if this plugin will work with WP2.5. I’m asking because i see some people are having problems with it and they have version 2.3.3 installed.
I may be worrying for nothing since i wont be getting to many visitors to my blog anyway, so it wont matter if the blog is broke or not…lol
Thank you so much for this great plugin. It will indeed be a great help. I need to start paying more attention to my feeds and tweaking them for optimal results. I will get to learning how to use this plugin asap. Thanks again!
that is amazing. Two feeds is double the reach. I think that having two feeds, one short and a full one from your blog will help get more readers. More readers is more exposure and eventually more readers. Thank you for posting.
Interesting plugin suggestion! Always good to know different ways to please the search engines AND the human readers at the same time. This seems to be able to do that when it comes to feeds. Thanks!
You see, I set yesterday aside to get on top of Google Reader, as I was way behind and sick of seeing 1000+ unread items.
Perhaps setting aside such a large chunk of time made me more conscious of my reading habits, what I wanted to read and what I didn’t. Maybe I’m not an “average” blog consumer but here’s a bit of feedback.
* I am subscribed to over 200 feeds.
* Yesterday, I “read” (as in opened) over 500 items.
* Some feeds had more of a backlog than others, predominantly because they are “high volume” feeds.
* For the most part the feeds that I got to last, funnily enough, are those that I value highly because of their content. But I know that they are “meaty” posts, so I tend to save them for when I can digest them.
Well yesterday was the final straw and I culled 10% of those feeds. If you burn a partial feed chances are yours was one of them.
I know I’ve said this before, but I’m going to say it again.
Why didn’t I find your site sooner?!?! Your plugins are a god-send, please don’t stop making em!
Yes, you must please both types of readers. Good plugin with a useful purpose!
Very very useful plugin. I’m wonder if Matt Cutts use this plugin to manage his dual feeds for his site?
This definitely makes sense. Even though I don’t have many reader reading my feeds yet, I am starting to get some traffic, so I will have to download and start using this plugin very soon. Thanks again!
I am trying to use this plugin but it shows an error which is
“unable to connect” what is it please help me to solve this.
LINK REMOVED: because of failure to use KeywordLuv syntax (name@keywords)
Hi cheao,
Which version of WordPress are you using? When do you get the message? I’ll need more details to look into this.
I’ve never heard of a problem such as this and can’t see where this would happen.
@sazzy I hear you there I usual don’t subscribe to partial feeds…it just increases the time it takes to read through all my feeds.
Thanks for this great plugin it will help me as I try and get my blog off the ground.
@Gary Winnick: The answer is right up there in the first paragraph! Unless I’m not understanding what you meant. =)
I like the fact that this gives the subscriber the ability to choose.
@nancy,
It is clear that Gary’s post is nothing more than spam. The articles the comment links to is about Gary Winnick. I doubt he is the one posting.
Nancy, I think he just made the comment to earn this link from Stephen’s blog.
Now that is one helpful plugin. Thats what I love about wordpress… theres such an active community of developers! Great post
I some how like full post feeds as when the full post is up the readers may tend to read more. Because sometimes the readers just don’t have the time to navigate through the post and then read it. But a good post, may be help me think a little differently.
Great plugin! This is very helpful for readers that would like to just read the post in a summary way or the whole thing right there without going to the site
Again thanks for this plug in!
-JoeV
This is a great plugin! This is very helpful for readers that would like to just read the post in a summary way or the whole thing right there without going to the site
Again thanks for this plug in!
-JoeV
That’s a very handy plugin
I guess I could send out the full post daily and then a roundup at the end of the week
Still feeling my way around the behemoth known as WordPress…I’m in the very beginning stages of using plugins and doing anything that’s basically modifying the “out-of-the-box” template…this is one that I will add to my toolbox in due time. Thanks.
Hi
It seems like a nice plug-in, guess i`m gonna use it.
I have one question thought: is it possible to view the second feed under some other address than “/feed?dualfeeds=2″ ? I really would like to change it. Which line of code is responsible for that? Thanks in advance. Cheers!
As I see it, it has one drawback. When you out on the Chicklet of Feedburner to show off your subscribers count, you would have to put up 2 chicklets since they are two separate feeds, moreover it could also raise doubts and confusion among the readers and advertisers!
Hi there,
I find it curious that no one has mentioned this yet – the plugin doesn’t check for open html tags when it truncates the post.
I really don’t know enough PHP to do this, so I’ve edited the plugin and added the strip_tags() function.
Anyone with a more elegant solution?
Great plugin, by the way!
Great Plugin! Immediately installed in http://www.miamammausalinux.org.
Many thanks and keep up the good work!
Hi
It seems like a nice plug-in, guess i`m gonna use it.
I have one question thought: is it possible to view the second feed under some other address than “/feed?dualfeeds=2? ? I really would like to change it. Which line of code is responsible for that? Thanks in advance. Cheers!
Hey, could you please look at this feed? I would say it’s buggy because the 500 char limit cuts a unicode character (the last one) into half, but I’m not sure – line 298 (first two errors used to happen before I activated DualFeeds). Thank you.
Hi Peter,
I see what you mean – I’m snowed under at the moment, but I’ll try to address this in the next release of DualFeeds.
I just tested the plugin on localhost and me like very much. Unfortunately, I have no control over things like how to align the sidebar image and post links to fit the styling of my blog. I’m such a pain in the a** when it comes to design. LOL. If i doesn’t look good to me I just discard it. I was looking into the folder but couldn’t find a css file. Is there anyway I can modify the alignments? If there is do let me know.
Thanks.
Hi Stephen,
The site I manage (AppCraver.com) has only put out a partial feed ever since the scuzzy scrapers started stealing our content. But, starting next week, I have to provide a full-text feed to a specific partner site. DualFeeds is just what I need!
Just one thing. I’ve been fancying up our current feed using Better Feed by Ohz. When I activate DualFeeds, it seems to override the other.
Is there any way to keep Better Feed for our main break-at-the-more-tag feed, while still using DualFeeds to create a full-text option for alternate uses?
Would “modifying the priority of the plugins” as you suggested to another commenter work for this too? How would I go about this?
Thanks!