RSS is something I've always ignored - but I wanted to kind of get some insight into what people get out of it. Do the default RSS feeds from Wordpress display post titles only, or entire posts? Also, do the links point to my site, or just open up the article in their RSS module? If they display entire posts, is there a way to disable that? I noticed that by clicking the RSS icon, it simply lists posts by title, according to post date. I just wanted to make sure that is what people are seeing if they include my RSS on their site. I also don't understand this concept of "scraping" RSS and using the content to benefit your site with someone else's content...how do you protect against this, and is there anything you have to do to a default Wordpress setup to do it? Thanks
In Wordpress your RSS feed can either display full posts or partial posts (you can choose the cut off point by using <!-- more -->). You can change this under Options -> Reading. Some readers will only subscribe to full post RSS feeds, but partial feeds will make users come to your site and help prevent content scraping. If you use a full feed you can still get them to come to your site by linking to older posts, encourage comments, etc. Content scraping is done by having a script automatically grab content from other RSS feeds and adding it to a blog. Generally the owner will make dozens of these spam blogs and use Adsense to get some money. However its against copyright, hated by bloggers, and I think against Adsense TOS and can get your site removed from Google if it is reported.
brandweb- thanks. I'll look into the Options/Reading section, I kind of ignored that in the past. I definitely want only hyperlinked titles to be showing.
@andrej You might consider this plugin and read up on the mentioned article: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/...add-copyright-message-to-your-rss-atom-feeds/
It's pretty easy. Edit the file wp-includes/default-filters.php Comment out the following lines... add_action('do_feed_rdf', 'do_feed_rdf', 10, 1); add_action('do_feed_rss', 'do_feed_rss', 10, 1); add_action('do_feed_rss2', 'do_feed_rss2', 10, 1); add_action('do_feed_atom', 'do_feed_atom', 10, 1); Your users will get an error that the feed type is not valid. I laughed and said "THAT'S WHAT I WANTED!" Hope that helps.