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Way back in July, I asked for suggestions on how to fix the Time/Date on posts and Getting Full Feeds on FeedBurner.  Eventually, I figured out the Time/Date thing and did an update on the original post, it was just another quirk of the Andreas Theme.

As far as Full Feeds were concerned, I continued to have partial feeds with FeedBurner.  Some people told me that they were showing full feeds in their Bloglines accounts.  I don’t know how they did that because the FeedBurner account was still showing partial feeds.

I went into the Forum at FeedBurner and asked for help.  They couldn’t figure out why I was having the problem since I had the RSS in Wordpress set to Full and I had the Summary Burner set as inactive in their setup.  But the question remained of how come people were able to get a full feed through their Bloglines Account.

I just gave up.

 

I returned to the FeedBurner Forum recently because I was thinking of ways to improve income and needed Full Feeds. Text Link Ads (aff) offers publishers the opportunity to put Advertisements in their RSS Feeds, and it would be easier to sell space if there more than just a teaser link to the Blog post.

So, once again I was looking at ways to show Full Feeds through FeedBurner.  Still getting the same answers from FeedBurner.  Still no change in the feeds.  Still the problem of partial feeds.

Where am I going with this you may ask.  If you are subscribed through FeedBurner, you should already have the answer.  I figured it out.

 

I thought that if people are getting full feeds on some accounts and not others, there is a reason.  I started to investigate different ways of subscribing to RSS.  The first thing I did was subscribe to my own feed.  I was still getting partials.  I tried looking up “myfeed.com/feed/rss” in my address bar and got the RSS readout, not the actual Feed.  Then I looked up “myfeed.com/feed” and lo and behold I got the FULL FEED.

FeedBurner says there is no difference between using “myfeed.com/feed/rss” and “myfeed.com/feed” in their setup of your account.  Well there IS!

 

Luckily, I have more than one WordPress Blog set up with FeedBurner, so I experimented with one of the Blogs that only had a few subscribers.  I changed the Feed address I was giving FeedBurner from /feed/rss to plain old /feed.  When I tested it, I got a Full Feed through FB.  I changed a couple of the others and got the same result.  Then I got brave and changed the Main Blog, and got mixed results.  I showed some partials and some full.

I unsubscribed and resubscribed and that problem was solved.  So, if you are getting both partial and full, please unsubscribe and resubscribe. But ALL New Feeds should not be a problem any longer, you should be getting Full Feeds.

 

Let me know if you are still having problems, and I will see what I can do.


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    November 7th, 2006 at 07:30am | Posted by Joe | Advertising, Basics, FeedBurner, RSS, WordPress | 10 reader remarks | Print This Post

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    10 Reader Remarks

    1. Yeah, Joe!

      You’re on a problem-solving roll this week.

      Input by Rick Cockrum | November 7, 2006 @ 8:55 am

    2. Hey Rick,

      It seems so, huh? I had things pre-posted on 2 blogs this week, so I had some time to figure out some of the small things that have been bothering me for a while. ;-)

      Joe

      Input by Joe | November 7, 2006 @ 10:37 am

    3. I think I’ll just go ahead and keep your full feed coming through, if that’s OK. I’ve got about 200 individual feeds in my Google Reader and if I switch you to a partial feed I won’t likely click through anyway.

      I pretty much don’t read feeds with partials and when I do I end up unsubscribing to them. The whole point of having a feed reader is so that I can get all my info in one place. If I have to click though for every feed, well that seems a little web 1.0 to me. If I wanted that I’d just go back to bookmarking everything in my favorites.

      With a full feed I still click through often enough when I want to leave a comment (like now).

      I understand the argument for having partial feeds is that it forces folks to the actual blog where the ads are. In my case I suspect I’ll actually click through more often with a full feed than I would with a partial feed (which I would eventually unsubscribe to because I find it annoying.)

      Just my 2 cents! (Feel free to take it or leave it.)

      Input by Chris Cree | November 7, 2006 @ 1:15 pm

    4. I think you’re misunderstanding, Chris. Joe has been trying to give full feeds, but some people have only been getting partial feeds. He figured out how to fix it so everyone would get the full feed.

      Input by Rick Cockrum | November 7, 2006 @ 1:26 pm

    5. Hey Chris,

      That’s my whole point. I always wanted the full feed. I do the same as you, I ignore partials and end up unsubscribing as well.

      I use the Feeds for research purposes, work related only.

      If there is something more like Creeations, I visit the actual Blog.

      I’m writing a post about why Feeds don’t always work, and why they do when they do. It should be out in the next day or two.

      I’m just glad that I could get the thing to work showing Full to anyone who wants it. ;-)

      Joe

      Input by Joe | November 7, 2006 @ 1:30 pm

    6. Thanks you Rick,

      You and I must have gotten in that time warp that Liz is so famous for. :-)

      Well, it is Tuesday, maybe that’s it.

      Anyway, I hope Chris got the point of me WANTNG Full Feeds. I’m sure the conversation will go on tonight at Liz’s. ;-)
      Joe

      Input by Joe | November 7, 2006 @ 1:42 pm

    7. Yeah, Joe. I guess my blond’s kicking in. Sorry for the confusion (and the mini-rant). My mistake.

      Input by Chris Cree | November 8, 2006 @ 4:28 pm

    8. Hey Chris,

      No problem, my friend. Us blond’s (with a little gray) gotta stick together. ;-)

      Input by Joe | November 8, 2006 @ 5:06 pm

    9. I am glad we are not alone after reading this. I have strggles with this for quite a while. Thanks for the post. It lifts my spirits in a unique sort of way.

      Joanna

      Input by Joanne Franklin | December 25, 2006 @ 9:50 pm

    10. Hey Joanne,
      Hope it helped. It bothered me for so long, I am the type that likes things to work the way I want them to, I just had to figure it out. ;-)

      Joe

      Input by Joe | December 25, 2006 @ 9:59 pm

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