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Questions about Time/Date and RSS Setup

Maybe I’m just too picky, but I Want Things the Way I Want Them.  If something should work and it doesn’t I get a little upset, especially when I put time, money and effort into something.  I don’t think it is asking too much to have a RSS Feed or the Time/Date on a post to work.

I have always had my RSS Feed set to show a FULL Feed on feedburner or any other service that someone subscribes to.  I realize that not everyone who reads my articles has the time to physically click on my site.  That is why they use RSS, so they can view different posts from different Bloggers all in one place.

I have set the Feeds on WP to show the FULL Post, but on FeedBurner it only gives a partial teaser to the Subscriber.  I checked the Source Code and it shows that I am feeding only a partial post on ALL RSS Feeds.  I tried to re-enter the information on WP and Save etc, and still I am sending a Partial.  I have no idea how to fix this problem at this point.

The other problem I am having is with the Time/Date on posts.  As before I have always had that information on each post, just because I like it that way.  I checked in the Edit Themes and the Manage Files Templates and as far as I can tell the Time/Date is supposed to show in the Foot of Each Post right before Posted by Joe.

I did find out that Part of the date had !– date stuff – in brackets, and removed the hidden date brackets to make it viewable.  Still nothing shows.  I don’t know enough about CSS to know if anything is missing, or if the calls for the information are right to go any further without help.

Maybe I’m just bing picky, or hardheaded, but I Want Things the Way I Want Them, especially if they are already there.  These are Not Plug-Ins, they are Part of WordPress.

Update:  I found a way to show the Date and Time on Posts and Comments.

In order to have the date and time show on the Whole of the “Index” page, go into the Presentation Editor, Main Index and look for the “date” call-up and Delete the !– “date stuff” — enclosure (Do Not Delete the”Date Stuff” just the Enclosure) including the hyphens and the less than/greater than brackets.  Then, Either Delete (lessthan)span(greaterthan) and the closure (/span) or Enclose the spans with (lessthan)!– (/)span –>

Make sure you do the same thing on the Page editor so that when an individual page is called up, the Time/Date info will show.

To include Time/Date in the Comments field, just bring up the Comments Editor in the same Theme Editor and Delete the (lessthan)!– and the –> from the date field.  Do Not remove anything BUT the Enclosures.

It works, just look at the bottom of the post. I hope I was clear enough, if not please say so and I will try to explain it a little better.

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June 30th, 2006 at 01:15pm | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Rants | 12 reader remarks | Print This Post