If you’re reading Funny through an RSS feed, you’ll be seeing a summary instead of the former full post. This setting is recommended by WordPress, so I just discovered. You can click on “more” to see the entire text and graphics.
I have yet to figure out how one gets an RSS feed to a WordPress.com blog (apparently you can set one up through Google, but how???). From what I can tell, these freebie sites come with an RSS feed by default, unless you set up the site as private. WP’s proprietors, being very bright young things, assume as bright young things will that the rest of us are just as bright. Alas, we’re not. For the life of me, no matter how assiduously I search Support and Forums, I can not parse out how a reader subscribes to an RSS feed to one of these blogs, or whether (and how) you can see how many people have RSS feeds.
Mysterious. Possibly it’s just one of those mammalian things that’s beyond the Cretacean brain’s capacity to grasp.
I’d be interested to hear why they recommend using a snippet rather than the full feed. I personally like reading things through a reader because it makes it easier to read a lot of things in a shorter amount of time. Going out to the website to read the content slows me down.
I use http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home for my feed set up. You can track subscribers here.
There is a plugin that you can use if you are using a self-hosted installation of WordPress to insert your Feedburner code into your blog. I’m not sure what the options are if you aren’t though.
It’s really disappointing that you made this change. I much prefer the other. It makes much easier, especially when I am reading on-the-go. Please re-consider, your posts are always entertaining.
I think you have to be using a WordPress.org (as opposed to .com) self-hosted site to get use Feedburner. WordPress.com doesn’t yet support feedburner. From what I can figure out, you get RSS feed if you do not set your site to be “private.” But how it works still escapes me.
The WordPress folks say that limiting RSS entries to the “summary” helps discourage sploggers & scrapers, which I get a lot of. It’s not all THAT much skin off my teeth when someone steals my content, but since this site is ad-free, it really does irk me to have someone else post ads around my copy and generate a profit from my work. That’s just stealing, and I don’t appreciate it.
Although I maintain this site as a hobby, I am a real-life professional writer with 30 years’ experience as a journalist, and I believe my writing is commensurately professional…most of the time. Considering that I don’t have an editor, that is. If anyone profits off my work, it should be me, not some sneak with scraping software.
I’m sympathetic to your plight, but I much prefer reading the full text of posts in my reader.
By the way, at the bottom of the page, there are links to “Entries” and “comments” feeds.
Ah hah! So THAT’s where the RSS thingies are. Darn. I wish they could be a little more conspicuous.
Just a quick note: if you’re really worried about post-stealers, you should put a copyright on the bottom of each post. Farmgirlfare.com does it, and she changes the copyright every time she posts, so you glean tidbits of information that she doesn’t mention in the posts. (I’m not affiliated with her, by the way. I’m just a fan.)