Title: RSS Feed – Full Excerpt
Last modified: April 3, 2019

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# RSS Feed – Full Excerpt

 *  [theukdirectory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theukdirectory/)
 * (@theukdirectory)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-full-excerpt/)
 * I’ve got my rss feeds set to summary but I’ve noticed its chopping sentences 
   off.
 * I’ve been googling and apparently its meant to do this, after 55 words, which
   is not what I’m needing.
 * Is it possible for the RSS feed just to use the excerpt text without any truncation.
 * I’ve google for an answer and found lots of solutions to extend the truncation
   limit etc. But nothing to help with what I need.
 * I just want to display the full excerpt text in my Rss feed, regardless how long
   or short it is.
 * Can anyone help me?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-full-excerpt/#post-11387760)
 * What do you have under settings->reading?
 *  Thread Starter [theukdirectory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theukdirectory/)
 * (@theukdirectory)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-full-excerpt/#post-11387872)
 * I’ve got “For each article in a feed, show” set to Summary
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-full-excerpt/#post-11387883)
 * Change that to show the full text.
 *  [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * (@jnashhawkins)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-full-excerpt/#post-11388284)
 * The only time I set my RSS feeds to full text is when I’m feeding another site
   via RSS and need the full text to transfer. Those sites are intentionally left
   out of the public view.
 * There are two problems with full text…
 * One is where anyone reading the feed with a RSS reader has no incentive to return
   to your site to read more. You want people using the RSS feed to view the first
   part and title and then have that draw them to your website.
 * The second is any site pulling a feed gets your full content with no real incentive
   for their readers to visit your website. I like the syndication aspect of RSS
   feeds but they need to entice the recipient site’s visitors to visit the originating
   site.
 * There are some email subscription programs that work very well with truncated
   feeds… again the full text removes any incentive for your reader to return to
   your website to read the balance of the post. And in this case, results in huge
   emails that often get passed over and seen as annoying.
 * In my case, as a content aggregator, I have to run extra software to truncate
   the full-text feeds and create the ‘read more’ and attribution links. Often that’s
   the deciding factor when selecting a feed for inclusion or to be skipped.
 * You seldom see full text feeds from the better run, commercially viable websites
   but a hobby site might choose to run the full feeds. This is all worth considering.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-feed-full-excerpt/#post-11388284)
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