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April 24th, 2009

How to Enable Full Feeds in WordPress and Feedburner

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Do you want to show full feeds to your readers but you can’t since something is wrong somewhere and you don’t know what and how to fix it? How do you enable full feeds in WordPress and Feedburner without cracking your head open? Fret not! I encountered the same problem and I am going to show you how to fix it (hopefully)! So let us start:

  1. Make sure your WP setting is correct.
    • Go to “Settings => Reading”.
    • Make sure that the “For each article in a feed, show ” option is set to “Full text”.
  2. Make sure that the feed you burn in Feedburner is an RSS 2.0 version.
    • Go to Feedburner.
    • Click the “Edit feed details” link.
    • Then change your feed to RSS 2.0. What does that mean?? So in my case, my first feed burned in Feedburner was not an RSS 2.0 version, thus I had the “Original feed” set to “http://www.phawville.com/blog/rss” which is the problem. All you have to do is add the digit “2″ to the “Original feed” and so mine becomes like this “http://www.phawville.com/blog/rss2“. So should yours.
  3. Create a dummy post so that Feedburner will update your feed right away.
  4. Voila! You can now see full feeds!

If this doesn’t work, please let me know and I’ll gladly help you out.

Note: The feed will be updated in the Feedburner => Optimize => Your Feed section. However, you will see the udpated feed in your reader maybe a few hours from the time you updated your settings as they do not happen real time.

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  • http://techcrunchies.com/ Anand

    Thanks for this post. I have both of this set up, and if I remember right, it used to display full feed on my Google reader (yes, I have subscribed to my own blog :P ). I recently added Google Adsense on my feed and now see that my feeds are partial (and also ads are not displayed.)

    Any idea why this is happening?

  • http://www.phawville.com/blog Paolo

    Hi Anand, I subscribe to my own blog too!! Is this problem already fixed? (sorry for the delayed response…)

  • http://techcrunchies.com/ Anand

    Hi Paolo

    Nope..I still see a partial feed with no ads..I am still not sure what is it that I am missing :S

  • http://www.phawville.com/blog Paolo

    Hi Anand,

    I subscribed to your site via Google Reader and I see full feeds with ads below the content. So I guess your problems are solved!!

    Try using other readers or other browsers when checking your feeds, that might work.

    By the way I like your site!!! Care to link exchange?

  • http://techcrunchies.com/ Anand

    LOL..seriously? I wonder why I am seeing such a feed then! anyway, thanks a lot for subscribing to my feed though.

    By the way, I’ve added your blog link on my sidebar. Cheers!

  • http://www.phawville.com/blog Paolo

    Thanks Anand! I’ll add you to my footer. Just watch out for it :)

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for your post. I’ve been trying to figure out how to get a pretty RSS like this with images and all:
    http://feeds.outspokenmedia.com/outspokenmedia

    Mine is pretty bare bones – and I just transferred my feed to Google. How do I make it look nice & pretty with images and full text?

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/LornaLiGreenMarketing

    I noticed that full posts are not displaying. I checked my WP settings, and “full text” is enabled. In the Google Feedburner back end, I do not see an option to switch my feed to RSS 2.0 in the interface.

    What do you recommend?

    Regards,

    Lorna Li
    Green Marketing 2.0

  • http://www.phawville.com/blog Paolo

    Hi Lorna,

    You got 2 questions there. First is how to use images for your RSS feeds. Simple, you just need to know a bit of HTML and you need to find a good image you want to use. After which you just edit your code like this:

    Above is the code to create the RSS link/image feed.

    Secondly about the full text. You need to give the full text RSS feed to feedburner. There is no option there to easily change it to RSS2. But that is not hard. You just have to follow my instructions in my post above and you should be okay.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you so much. I could not figure out why my feeds weren’t showing images. Now they are. Glad I came across your site.

  • http://inforids.com/ Riddhi Mohan

    Nice post. Paolo

    You can see my Feed.

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/Inforids

    Full of Images & technology Bytes. Hope you will like it & suscribe it :)

  • Name

    Thanks for this… I’ve been searching for this for at least 2 hours and come to find out the first part you posted about the settings in wordpress is where I had the issue.

    Feedburner was set up right, I was just missing the other part.

    Thanks for this post.

  • http://www.phawville.com/blog Paolo

    Sure no problem.

  • http://www.motosport.in memey

    its little bit difficult 4 me,but thanks

  • http://www.phawville.com/blog Paolo

    no prob :)

  • Lindsay

    You’re kidding me. Seriously. I could kiss you. I have been staring at this problem for WEEKS and it was as simple as changing it to RSS 2.0. My hero. Thank you.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/P767RRRFDSCQRIREAW3SO4TZJY Kartal Yuksel

    Phew, i should call this post a miracle. For 2 hours I’ve been looking for it, and there it is.

    Very easy, done in seconds..

    THANKS A LOT..!

  • Edu Skinner

    Hi… I don’t know if you are still following this issue at all since the latest post seem to be quite old… I have checked everything you have mentioned above and below, my full post and RSS2.0 are correctly set up, my links are absolute and even so I don’t get images in any feed in any reader I’ve tried.
    Here is my site http://esphoto.com.net.sc/
    And here is my feedburner http://feeds.feedburner.com/net/GxKz
    Do you have any ideas?
    Tahnks a lot.

  • http://www.phawville.com/blog Paolo

    Are you still having problems? Let me know

  • http://www.phawville.com/blog Paolo

    Are you still having problems? Let me know

  • http://www.kaishinlab.com Kaishin

    It worked for me! big thanks!

  • http://www.phawville.com/blog Paolo

    No problemo!

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  • Anonymous

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!  Solved my problem!

  • http://www.phawville.com/blog Paolo

    No problem! You might want to link here if you this helped you :D

  • http://wholenewmom.com Adrienne

    Hi.  I have been trying to sort out why I can’t get a full feed to work.  I just made the change in my settings like you suggested.  

    I just did the dummy post and it worked.  However, I do have a question for you.  I had read on another blog about the rss vs rss2 thing, but my feed doesn’t have rss after it.  Is this a problem?

    Thanks for the help!

  • http://www.phawville.com/blog Paolo

    No it is not a problem :)

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