{"id":2414,"date":"2003-02-28T03:41:15","date_gmt":"2003-02-28T03:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2003-02-28T03:41:15","modified_gmt":"2003-02-28T03:41:15","slug":"rss_geeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"RSS Geeking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lukwam.com\/archive\/index.php?id=498\">Lukas is musing<\/a> about how RSS feeds &#8220;should&#8221; be configured.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A number of blogs have recently been discussing how RSS feeds should be configured. Some of the questions that frequently come up are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Should feeds contain the full content of posts or just an excerpt?<\/li>\n<li>Should additional content like user comments and trackbacks be included?<\/li>\n<li>How many days\/posts should be included?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rather than try and come up with answers to those questions that would satisfy all my readers, I&#8217;ve decided to provide the full range of options.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d been thinking about this a bunch because when he first added in comments it was driving the aggregator in Radio crazy.  We actually were just talking about this a few days ago too.  I don&#8217;t think there is necessarily a &#8220;should&#8221;.  Though, I could see a few reasons to want to keep it to just posts or an excerpts.  Though they all tend to apply to larger sites.<\/p>\n<p>The primary one has to do with bandwidth.  If I&#8217;m a newspaper who is syndicating stories, the bandwidth requirements aren&#8217;t as much for me if I just do excerpts.  Remember that RSS is a bit different from a normal web page in that most aggregators are hitting it every hour (or less) and downloading.<\/p>\n<p>You could get around it with some kind of database and dynamicly building the feed, but I think you might end up with some steep resource requirements.  Though in the case of most personal blogs that wouldn&#8217;t be an issue.<\/p>\n<p>For now I&#8217;m just offering a base feed that includes the full post.  One thing I&#8217;m thinking of doing is using MT&#8217;s &#8216;Extended Entry&#8217; area for extra long posts.  That would help break up what is on the front page, when I have ones that would go on and on and on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lukas is musing about how RSS feeds &#8220;should&#8221; be configured. A number of blogs have recently been discussing how RSS feeds should be configured. Some of the questions that frequently come up are: Should feeds contain the full content of posts or just an excerpt? Should additional content like user comments and trackbacks be included? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}