Wordpress Partial Post, Full Feed
I have been experimenting with some various options in Wordpress in order to produce a better product for all the DCoT readers out there. One of the things that I was really wanting to do was to select certain posts and only show the first few paragraphs on the front page so that readers could quickly decide if they wanted to read the entire post or just skip to the next one.
The solution to this was, on the surface, quite simple. All I needed to do was place a <!--more--> tag in the post where I wanted the post to stop on the main page. It them adds a link to the rest of the content.
Unfortunately, this did the same thing in my RSS feeds and ended up upsetting a number of the readers. As it turns out, people who read DCoT via the RSS feed read it differently than those who read it on the website. Website readers like to click around and jump from page to page. But, feed readers treat the posts more like e-mails and they don’t want to have to switch mediums in order to finish the post. This is especially true for people who access the feed content from mobile devices such as cell phones, PDAs, or smartphones.
So, I began the hunt for a solution that would allow me to keep the feeds with the full content but use the <!--more--> tag in the posts.
