Title: RSS Problems in Google Reader
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS Problems in Google Reader

 *  Resolved [darreno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darreno/)
 * (@darreno)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problems-in-google-reader/)
 * Firstly I had the problem of not getting full posts in Google Reader and only
   excerpts.
 * **I did the following:**
 * **1)** Made sure that “full text” was checked in Options>Reading
    **2)** Corrected
   the code on rss2.php line 37 to read: `<description><![CDATA[<?php the_content()?
   >]]></description>` **3)** And finally downloaded the plug-in [Full Text Feed](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/full-text-feed/)
 * **Here are my problems:**
 * 1) The following links work fine but display different dates in Google Reader–
   None of which are the actual post dates. In fact the posts **all** have the same
   dates, which are different on each feed (weird!!):
 * [http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/rdf/](http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/rdf/)
   
   [http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/rss2/](http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/rss2/)
   [http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/atom/](http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/atom/)
 * I have no idea why Google Reader is not getting the correct post date for each
   individual post. Any suggestions?
 * 2) The rss1 link eg. [http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/rss/](http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/rss/)
   still does not display the full post in the reader. Moreover this also seems 
   to be the default rss feed if one clicks on the rss feed symbol in the browser
   address bar (in Firefox) even though in the header.php template I see that it
   reads
    `<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('
   name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />` For some reason
   the rss2_url parameter is not pointing to the rss2.php file. Where is this parameter
   stored and how can it be changed? At present I have had to hard-code into the
   header the rss2 link.
 * If anyone can throw any light on these strange behaviors it would be much appreciated.
 * Thanks

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problems-in-google-reader/#post-572936)
 * Regarding #2: Looking at the source of your page, the alternate is pointing to
   the /feed/rss2/ link, not the rss link. Perhaps you’re viewing from the browser
   cache?
 *  Thread Starter [darreno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darreno/)
 * (@darreno)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problems-in-google-reader/#post-572957)
 * > Regarding #2: Looking at the source of your page, the alternate is pointing
   > to the /feed/rss2/ link, not the rss link. Perhaps you’re viewing from the 
   > browser cache?
 * Like I mentioned in my question I had to hard-code /feed/rss2/ into the header
   template for this to work – it was defaulting to the rss1.0 feed even though 
   I was using `bloginfo('rss2_url')`
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problems-in-google-reader/#post-572979)
 * Ahh. Well, I don’t know then. I’m using bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); and it works fine
   for me.
 * BTW, it should just point to [http://example.com/blog/feed/](http://example.com/blog/feed/).
   No “rss2” required, as that is assumed.
 *  [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problems-in-google-reader/#post-572981)
 * Not sure I understand or if this applies, but, have you tried just using
    `http://
   www.yoursite.com/feed/` and let it default to RSS2?
 *  Thread Starter [darreno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darreno/)
 * (@darreno)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problems-in-google-reader/#post-572994)
 * That is the problem even [http://www.yoursite.com/feed/](http://www.yoursite.com/feed/)
   defaults to rss1.0 ???? why is it doing this?
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problems-in-google-reader/#post-572997)
 * darreno: No, it doesn’t.
 * [http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/](http://www.darrenmusic.com/feed/) is an RSS2
   feed.
 *  Thread Starter [darreno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darreno/)
 * (@darreno)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-problems-in-google-reader/#post-573017)
 * hmm that is weird. Maybe something with Google Reader caching. It seems to be
   working now and the dates seem to be correct.

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