August 11, 2003

RSS Stuff

I just updated this blog to support RSS 2.0 now. You can access it via this link.

A question for anyone out there that might know. I have been using NewsDesk for a bit now as my RSS syndicated news reader and really like it. Works awesome to import/export between my laptop and desktop machines. But I find with my entries, it always ends each one with a "..." in the excerpt summaries, as if there is more to the entry, when there is not. I am guessing I am not using Moveable Type properly, and was wondering if anyone had a clue to what I was doing wrong. I notice feeds such as Arc's and Foz don't have this issue, but most everyone else hosting on Ufies does. Even Solas' feed shows them.

Anyone have any clue what I am talking about, and how to fix this? I increased my excerpt size to 1024... but that didn't do much more. What else am I missing?

Posted by SilverStr at August 11, 2003 08:00 AM
Comments

you are welcome to try my rss 2.0 template which i nicked from someone else.

Posted by: fozbaca at August 11, 2003 08:36 AM

Take a look at the rss template you are using it may have the "..." in it, as if you were using excerpts intead of the full post.

Also, hit my own commentary on this http://arcterex.net/blog/archives/2003/03/22/rss_feeds_done.html and note that there is a plugin to combine normal and extended entries, which is noted in unix-girl's post.

Posted by: Arcterex at August 11, 2003 10:20 AM

Thanks for the tips guys. I just got it working with the plugins Arc's link suggested.. and it seems to work great!

Posted by: SilverStr at August 11, 2003 03:53 PM