RSS feeds are a must have feature in any blog or site.Now-a-days no one is having enough time to manually navigate to their favorite web blogs or sites in order to view new or updated articles. I added the RSS feature using feedburner.I got nearly 15-20 Subscribers within one week of the blog launch itself.I was extremely happy but this happiness didn’t lasted too long.Gradually the number of subscribers went on decreasing.I wished to know why this is happening.So i subscribed into my own feeds. Within minutes i came to know where i had gone wrong.My feeds were partial.The feeds were like this I must say that partial feeds are worthless.It is better that the site or blog has no feeds feature at all instead of giving partial feeds. The default selection of feeds is partial itself.You need to change it.To change it go to Options(Settings)>>Reading in WP admin menu.Change the option to Full Text as show in the screenshot Another important note:If your use <!–more–> in your posts then the full feeds will have just the contents before <!–more–>To avoid this you need to use the plugin Full Text Feed Plugin link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/full-text-feed/ But if you are using Wordpress 2.5(like me) then there is no necessity for this plugin coz this nasty feature has been corrected in wp 2.5 Hope you will learn from my mistake and make your feeds full.. I just hope that i can again get those RSS subscribers back…. If you like this small tip then please subscribe to my full rss feeds….. Source
Partial feeds are really annoying, especially from bloggers. I tolerate them from major news outlets, but I think that most bloggers would serve themselves well to provide full feeds. I actually wrote a post about full vs. partial feeds just last week. In the long run, I think you can build more traffic with full feeds than with partials. Providing partial feeds with the expectation of higher site traffic is short sighted. I always make sure I subscribe to my own feeds and view each article in my reader just to make sure everything is showing up as I intended.
yes the partial feeds are annoying...Many new wp users will not know how to change it...so i made this small tip.. BTW nice article by you...
I have just subscribed to my own feed but have not received any emails with new content and also, my readers still show zero even though it should be one ?