Title: RSS description/excerpt
Last modified: April 26, 2021

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# RSS description/excerpt

 *  Resolved [Ray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scootray/)
 * (@scootray)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-description-excerpt/)
 * Hi Yannik!
 * I noticed in RSS readers that the RSS feed of links don’t show a description 
   unless the full=page content portion has been filled out. Would it be possible
   to have the RSS feed instead show the data from the description field in Link
   Library since that’s used for the regular link library catalog pages?
 * It would save having to enter the description twice (i.e. in description box 
   and also in full-content box).
 * Thanks,
    Ray

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 *  Plugin Author [Yannick Lefebvre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdewey/)
 * (@jackdewey)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-description-excerpt/#post-14365995)
 * Hi Ray, I assume you’re talking about the global site RSS feed, and not the Link
   Library-specific RSS feed, correct? Because I just double-checked and the Link
   Library-specific RSS feed does use the link description and not the full-content
   field.
 * For the site-wide RSS feed, if you select the option to include Links in that
   feed, the RSS item content will be determined by what you put in the Search Results/
   RSS feed tab found under Global Options. The default value of that field is the
   content, but you can easily change it to use the description or other fields 
   as desired.
 *  Thread Starter [Ray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scootray/)
 * (@scootray)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-description-excerpt/#post-14366871)
 * Ah, I see now. It is indeed set correctly to the link description. I’m using 
   MailPoet to automatically email updates. I assumed it pulls in data from the 
   RSS feed but it’s apparently pulling it straight from WordPress and the link 
   description isn’t included, just the full page content for some odd reason.
 * I’ll ping them and see if they can tweak it.
 * Apologies for the trouble.
    Ray
 *  Plugin Author [Yannick Lefebvre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackdewey/)
 * (@jackdewey)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-description-excerpt/#post-14366876)
 * Best way for them to fix this would be to provide a filter hook to be able to
   change what the content of the update is.

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