Question to Betalogue readers: Do you want a feed with excerpts only?

Posted by Pierre Igot in: Blogging
May 14th, 2008 • 2:52 pm

I have yet to find confirmation of this in the official documentation, but it looks like the newer version of WordPress (2.5.1) that I have just installed does away with the separate excerpts feed altogether. With WordPress’s default configuration, I now have to choose between excerpts and full posts in the main feed, and that is the only option I have. (And I choose full posts.)

For now, I have automatically redirected the old excerpts-only feed to the main feed (with full posts). So people who were subscribed to the excerpts feed are now getting the main feed with full posts.

I can try and manually build a separate feed with excerpts only or install a WordPress plug-in that restores the choice. But before I do that, I’d like to ask current Betalogue readers whether they actually want such a feed.

My access logs seem to indicate that quite a few people were subscribed to the old excerpts-only feed, but I am not sure how important it is to Betalogue readers to have such an option. Certainly, the less I have to customize the default WordPress setup, the easier it will be for me. But if enough people say that they want an excerpts-only feed, I will do it.

So if you want one, please let me know by posting a comment or sending an e-mail. If you are happy with just a feed with the full text of the posts, then there is no need to write.

Thanks.


2 Responses to “Question to Betalogue readers: Do you want a feed with excerpts only?”

  1. Bahi says:

    I really enjoy reading the full feed from Betalogue! Thanks. :)

  2. jking says:

    I rather dislike excerpt feeds, personally.

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