• Resolved foochuck

    (@foochuck)


    I’ve setup my WordPress blog so that video content shows up above the title of my blog and I’ve noticed that my RSS feed starts out with the blog title and the video doesn’t get included.

    How can I control what shows up in my RSS feed if the video content is above the title of the blog on the page and it’s not getting included in the RSS feed? Here’s a link to a page I’m referring to:

    http://www.foochuck.com/2011/07/a-song-for-ana-video/

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    Is your RSS feed using excerpts or full content?

    Thread Starter foochuck

    (@foochuck)

    It’s using the full content. Here’s my RSS link:

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/foochuck

    (which is fed by http://www.foochuck.com/feed/ )

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    Does it work without feed burner running it? (I’m on my iPad, so all rss feeds are truncated)

    Thread Starter foochuck

    (@foochuck)

    I’ve tested it without feedburner and the videos don’t show up in the content of the posts from the original feed.

    http://www.foochuck.com/feed/

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    What you’re seeing is abnormal behavior for WP, so something (either in your theme or a plugin) is causing the issue.

    Start with turning off your plugins, but also review your theme files (especially functions.php) and see if it’s putting in something to edit RSS.

    Thread Starter foochuck

    (@foochuck)

    So even if the video appears above the title of the title, by default, it should show up in the RSS Feed?

    I’m checking out functions.php and checking plugins as well, however I’m not sure what to look for that could be interfering with the RSS feed…

    Thread Starter foochuck

    (@foochuck)

    I should also note that I was originally using the twenty ten theme, however I obviously changed the look of my site. I barely modified the functions.php for my site. Going to attempt to do some plugin tests…

    Thread Starter foochuck

    (@foochuck)

    @ipstenu – One thing I forgot to mention. The video content that is not showing up in my pages gets add to the post through custom fields. Could that have an effect on it not showing up in my RSS feed?

    Thread Starter foochuck

    (@foochuck)

    Okay so I figured out that custom fields aren’t displayed by default in a WordPress RSS feed. Basically I had to write some functions into the theme’s functions.php file to make sure that the custom fields get displayed where I want them in relation to the rest of the content in each blog post.

    Hope this helps someone else out.

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