In my ever vigilant effort to make a clean looking AND user-friendly Blog for everyone here, I am trying one more plugin to try and get the combination of post snippets on-site, while having full feeds go through the feed.

if you recall, I first attempted the Full Feed plugin and it was a disaster. I then thought it would just be best to change the look of the Blog a bit, and publish full posts.

Neither you nor I liked that very much.

When suddenly…..on one of my blog commenting escapades I ran across Colin King, a true geek :-). A great guy, a real swell fella; seriously.

I was conversing my woes to him and he told me of (or reminded me of) the Optional Excerpt right here in the WP ‘write’ admin. I had seen it many times of course, but never knew what it was for.

As I wrote last, after reading much about how RSS subscribers hate having to click the link to read the full article, and even getting some personal requests for a full feed, I have complied After all, it’s all for the readers right? Yes!

After atempting the “full feed plugin” and failing miserably, I contacted Feedburner for some help. Their forum is now closed so I found their new “help” group (sigh) with a plea for help. The response I received was a little less then helpful, “If FeedBurner doesn’t receive your full post, there is no way for it to republish your full post.”

Umm OK, so much for that idea.

So as you can see here, I’ve decided to publish full articles right here in the open…no clicking for feed or straight blog readers!

At least I hope we do, that’s where your help comes in. After reading so much about how RSS subscribers hate having to click the link to read the full article, and even getting some personal requests for a full feed, I have complied.

After all, it’s all for the readers right? Yes!

I have installed and activated the full feed plugin. This handy dandy plugin is supposed to overwrite the <<<more>>> feature that Wordpress saw fit to, and show the full feed even if I use it.

Lets see if it works, shall we…