Title: rss feed (conditional tag)
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# rss feed (conditional tag)

 *  [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/)
 * (@marcomail)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-conditional-tag/)
 * Is it possible have this conditional in rss feed:
 * if there is text in the excerpt use only the excerpt, if not use only the content

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 *  Thread Starter [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/)
 * (@marcomail)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-conditional-tag/#post-415739)
 * none ?
 *  Thread Starter [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/)
 * (@marcomail)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-conditional-tag/#post-415942)
 * help
 *  Thread Starter [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/)
 * (@marcomail)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-conditional-tag/#post-416002)
 * up
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-conditional-tag/#post-416003)
 * If there is no text in the post, why would you want to use the_content? — There’s
   no content to insert!
 *  Thread Starter [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/)
 * (@marcomail)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-conditional-tag/#post-416005)
 * But i can do it ?
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-conditional-tag/#post-416007)
 * Sure, you could modify the feed to do that, but it seems pointless. If the_excerpt
   is empty, then the_content will be empty too.
 *  Thread Starter [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/)
 * (@marcomail)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-conditional-tag/#post-416080)
 * Could you give me the exact code, i’m not a programmer.
 * i think this is the code to modify:
 * `<?php if (get_settings('rss_use_excerpt')) : ?>
    <description><![CDATA[<?php
   the_excerpt_rss() ?>]]></description> <?php else : ?> <description><![CDATA[<?
   php the_excerpt_rss() ?>]]></description> <?php if ( strlen( $post->post_content)
   > 0 ) : ?> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_content('', 0, '') ?>]]></content:
   encoded> <?php else : ?> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss() ?>]]
   ></content:encoded> <?php endif; ?> <?php endif; ?>
 *  Thread Starter [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/)
 * (@marcomail)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-conditional-tag/#post-416084)
 * none ?

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 * 8 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Marcomail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcomail/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-conditional-tag/#post-416084)
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