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How to control the excerpt / content of the BBPress RSS Feed

Dale Reardon
Participant

@dalereardonmdm

4 years, 10 months ago

Hi,
I want to use the topics RSS feed to send out a newsletter in my email provider.
The problem is that at the moment the RSS feed is bringing in the entire contents of the topic post rather than just a summary.
I understand the BBPress RSS feeds are entirely separate to the main WP feeds and not affected by the reading setting of summary excerpt in the WP settings.
Is it possible to control the length in characters or words that go into the BBPress RSS feed?

Thanks,
Dale.

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Lars Henriksen
Participant

@adjunkten

4 years, 6 months ago

Hi,

I would like to know this too, – did you find a solution?

Thanks, Lars

Robin W
Moderator

@robin-w

4 years, 6 months ago

Lars,

I cannot remember if you are technical or not – let me know, if you are I can point you to a solution, but if not, then it may take me a while to work it all out.

Lars Henriksen
Participant

@adjunkten

4 years, 6 months ago

Hi Robin

Thanks for answering.
If ‘technical’ means able to fiddle with readymade code snippets, then yes.
If it means actual coding skills, the no 🙂

Lars

Robin W
Moderator

@robin-w

4 years, 6 months ago

ok, let me play with some code and come back

Robin W
Moderator

@robin-w

4 years, 6 months ago

ok, this may or may nogt work

can you download this file

RSS Test

and then open it and paste the contents into code snippets ion the php/code section

then let me know if it does anything (at all!!)

Lars Henriksen
Participant

@adjunkten

4 years, 6 months ago

Hi Robin

It works very well! It hides the post content inside the ‘description’ tag, leaving only title and author name in the feed.

Thank you very much, Robin.

Cheers, Lars

Robin W
Moderator

@robin-w

4 years, 6 months ago

not what I planned, and I know why, but of it works for you then great !!

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