• Greetings. RSS is showing the full body of every post even though Settings / Reading has the summary button clicked for each article in the feed.

    I’ve done many searches online to find someone else who has that problem or who has an answer but without any luck.

    Any suggestions?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    I only see excerpts in your feed.

    Perhaps your feed reader has cached the full posts? Please feel free to check at http://jhuff.me/view/ which does not cache feeds.

    Thread Starter Scott S. Bateman

    (@promisem)

    Hi, James. I suspect you clicked on the link in my profile, which goes to my business blog. The feed with the problem is on another site:

    http://pushliving.com/feed/

    You can ignore the caption tags and some other problems, which are brand new.

    I tried disabling all plugins and changing the theme back to one of the defaults, but it didn’t make a difference.

    Can you suggest a function to force the excerpts to appear?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    Yeah, that’s definitely not an except. :/

    Are you using any sort of caching plugin, or do you see a “Clear/Purge Cache” button in your Dashboard or admin bar? If so, would you please try clearing the cache?

    Note: You do not need to install a caching plugin at this point just to clear a cache you don’t have. If you don’t have a caching plugin or a way to clear a server-level cache, just say so. 🙂

    If clearing the cache made no difference, or you aren’t running a blog-level or server-level cache, please try one more time with *all* plugins (even the ones you think you need) disabled and the Twenty Fifteen theme active, then check your feed at http://jhuff.me/view/

    Please make sure it’s all plugins, 90% of the time it’s the one plugin that wasn’t disabled, even though folks say they disabled all of them.

    Thread Starter Scott S. Bateman

    (@promisem)

    Well, your advice was good. I definitely turned off all of the plugins, but the problem isn’t the plugins, it’s the theme.

    The excerpts showed when I turned off the theme and all of the plugins. But when I turned just the theme back on, the full body showed up again.

    I can’t change the theme at this time. Can you think of a way to force the excerpts to appear?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    What’s the name of the theme you’re using, and where did you get it from?

    Thread Starter Scott S. Bateman

    (@promisem)

    Actually, never mind. I found out it was a function causing the problem. I removed the function, and it seems to be working now. Thanks for your help.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    You’re welcome!

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