Title: Short Posts Causing “Garbage” in Feed
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Short Posts Causing “Garbage” in Feed

 *  Resolved [lewatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lewatson/)
 * (@lewatson)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-posts-causing-garbage-in-feed/)
 * I have posted two short posts and one long post over the past two to three days.
   When I look at the feed the short posts contain “garbage” at the end while the
   long posts are fine. I’ve tried deleting these short posts and recreating them
   but still get the garbage.
 * Short post example: [http://kitchentablewisdom.com/ktw_blog/2008/11/27/power-of-one/#comments](http://kitchentablewisdom.com/ktw_blog/2008/11/27/power-of-one/#comments)
 * Feed looks like:
 * If ever you think you cannot achieve what you desire – keep watching this until
   you believe once again. E:60 Feature Power of One addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fkitchentablewisdom.
   com%2Fktw_blog%2F2008%2F11%2F27%2Fpower-of-one%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Power+Of
   +One’; addthis_pub = ‘lewatson’;
 * * also note the feed entry from Nov 24 still appears even though I deleted the
   entry.
 * —
    Long post example: [http://kitchentablewisdom.com/ktw_blog/2008/11/26/no-more-crackers-please/](http://kitchentablewisdom.com/ktw_blog/2008/11/26/no-more-crackers-please/)
 * Feed looks like:
 * Yesterday I roamed the aisles of the local grocery store searching for the few
   remaining items we wanted to include in the Holiday Hampers for the local woman’s
   shelter. I wandered up one aisle with shelves overflowing with pop and down the
   next brimming with potato chips. Over one row was an entire aisle of cereal followed
   by another one stocked half way […]
 * I am stumped as to what is going on and how to correct this so the garbage doesn’t
   appear.
 * Thanks for any thoughts on what to do. All these posts were made agter upgrading
   to v2.6.5.

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 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-posts-causing-garbage-in-feed/#post-911891)
 * It looks like the AddThis plugin is causing this. Try disabling it to see if 
   the problem goes away.
 *  Thread Starter [lewatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lewatson/)
 * (@lewatson)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-posts-causing-garbage-in-feed/#post-911941)
 * Thanks for the heads up towards AddThis.
 * I’ve spent the day doing further testing and this appears to be a problem related
   to the combination of RSS, AddThis and short posts. Everything seems to be working
   properly using Atom as the feed.
 * The RSS feeds don’t appear to be updating (or at least as I would expect them
   to) and there is a difference between the results shown on /feed and /?feed=rss2.
 *  Thread Starter [lewatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lewatson/)
 * (@lewatson)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-posts-causing-garbage-in-feed/#post-912042)
 * Nix my response from yesterday.
 * The AddThis code showing up in the feeds seems to “disappear” when the first 
   paragraph is three lines or greater. The code also doesn’t appear on one post
   I have where the first paragraph just wraps onto a second line but there is an
   image that follows.
 * Still scratching my head.
 *  Thread Starter [lewatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lewatson/)
 * (@lewatson)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-posts-causing-garbage-in-feed/#post-912170)
 * The AddThis folks are working on a new version of the button / plugin for WP.
   When I find out it is available I’ll post an update.
 *  Thread Starter [lewatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lewatson/)
 * (@lewatson)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-posts-causing-garbage-in-feed/#post-912175)
 * The new AddThis plug-in has been added … v1.5 I believe … and has corrected this
   problem.
 * The addition of parameter changes via the Settings > AddThis menu is a very welcome
   addition.

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 * Last reply from: [lewatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lewatson/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-posts-causing-garbage-in-feed/#post-912175)
 * Status: resolved

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