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Trimmed RSS Feeds Option

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    Trimmed RSS Feeds Option

    This is a huge problem imo as vBulletin includes the whole post content in the RSS feed and doesn't offer an option to limit the amount of characters shown in the feed itself.

    This means theres no incentive for people who subscribe to your feed to actually go to your site as they can read the whole post straight from their aggregators.

    My proposal is to have vBSEO limit the RSS feed and allow you to control how many characters are visible.. so instead of this:

    Thread Title Here
    The full content of the body post can be shown here.

    It's like this:

    Thread Title Here
    The full content of the body po...

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    Oh and if anyone knows how to do that in the meantime let me know.

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    Also love to know this!

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    Trim newsfeed content - vBulletin.org Forum

    Sorry, now I see it's not working on 3.6.6 etc.
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    Well, thanks a lot!

    Do you KNOW that this does not work on 3.6.x or is this just a guess because of the vB Version-Info?

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    Does anybody know a solution for this?

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    I'd very much be interested in a solution as well. The mod at vb doesn't work with vb 3.6.5 onwards.

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    We run all our feeds through feedburner. We use it to limit feed sizes and can track subscriber information.

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    @echamberlain

    could you do a quick install guide how to use feedburner with vb?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thomas Hoehl View Post
    Trim newsfeed content - vBulletin.org Forum

    Sorry, now I see it's not working on 3.6.6 etc.
    I installed this a couple days ago and it's working great!

    Quote Originally Posted by echamberlain View Post
    We run all our feeds through feedburner. We use it to limit feed sizes and can track subscriber information.
    I'm in the process of doing this as well. It's just a matter of creating all the burned feeds for each forum, (I wish there was a script available to do this) then changing the links over in the header template. I'm assuming you named the feeds by forum number?

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    vbulletin & Feedburner

    Quote Originally Posted by echamberlain View Post
    We run all our feeds through feedburner. We use it to limit feed sizes and can track subscriber information.
    I too would like to see this We have a large forum and it would be nice to have separate feeds for each section and have them working with feedburner.

    care to share???

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    {crickets}

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    It's funny that I just wrote on this. Has anyone found a solution? Or developed it on thier own? I know I've seen forums that have this before in their templates. I had it made for an old phpbb forum (the predecessor of what I have now).

    Does vBSEO have any plans for RSS enhancements?

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    I think I found solution to your RSS woes. Check out this link.

    Does vBSEO have any RSS enhancements?

    Quote Originally Posted by mykkal View Post
    It's funny that I just wrote on this. Has anyone found a solution? Or developed it on thier own? I know I've seen forums that have this before in their templates. I had it made for an old phpbb forum (the predecessor of what I have now).

    Does vBSEO have any plans for RSS enhancements?

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    We run our feeds through feedburner. We can control the number of characters in the feed and we can get subscription metrics.

    We have a general feed and specific feeds for each forum.

    The templates are modified to return the feedburner version of the feed and htaccess rewrite rules redirect any direct connection requests to the feedburner version.

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