Changing The Amount Of Text Displayed In Feeds (Blogger Tutorials)

Changing The Amount Of Text Displayed In Feeds

In my previous articles i have written about how you can find your Blog's Feeds.
Now i will show you how you can customize it to suit your needs.

You can change the settings of your blog feed, be it for the posts or comments feed, by changing elements of the URL and adding variables to it. The variables you can change are:

• The feed type (Atom/RSS)
• The maximum number of results (posts or comments) that are displayed.
• The amount of text displayed (summary or full)

So let's look at the feed URL in another way:

http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/[posts/comments]/TYPE/[variables defined here]

The feed type (Atom/RSS) and the maximum number of results are defined using variables which are added to the end of the URL. The amount of text displayed is controlled by the TYPE section within the default url.
In this post i will show you how you can change the amount of text displayed in feed.

To change the amount of text displayed in feeds you have to change the variable "TYPE".
Let's start with an explanation of the "TYPE". This can be either "full" (which displays the whole post or comment) or "summary" (which displays the first 250 characters or so). The "default" setting defers to whatever settings you have defined in your Blogger dashboard. Using either "full" or "summary" in the url for your blog feed will override any settings you have defined in your Blogger dashboard. Here are examples of how this setting can be used:

http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/summary
http://www.yourblog.com/feeds/comments/full