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26 November 2008
18:03

baron

hi. Thanks for plugin

perfect.

Regards

28 April 2009
20:25

Philip

Hi
Great plugin.
What would be really good is to have one further option about what to exclude.
Maybe I’ve been approaching this the wrong way, but I’ve set up my front and archive pages to show post summaries using the first 100 words of the_content_rss. I’ve set the thing up to exclude html tags, which look ugly when the_content_rss is displayed, but ever since WP 2.6(?) when there’s an image with a caption, the ugly [caption] … [/caption] tags get displayed in my post summary. So I’ve had to avoid putting images within the first 100 words of my post , or avoid giving the image a caption.
So, as well as being able to exclude stuff between tags and after the more tag, it would be great to be able to exclude stuff between the [caption][/caption] tags.

28 April 2009
21:32

Arno Moonen

Thanks for the suggestion!
If I think if got some spare time this week to build in some new options.
I’m thinking of an option that add custom tags (like your [caption][/caption] example) and custom breakpoints (for example ‘exclude all content after ‘ so only the first paragraph is shown in the feed).
That ‘first 100 words’ you’re talking about is also something I could implement.

I’ll have a look at it and will get back at you as soon as some/all of these new functions are implemented.

Bye,
Arno

28 April 2009
22:33

Philip

Thanks – I look forward to trying it out!
You can see my problem if you look at the top article on this page:
http://londonkoreanlinks.net/tag/korean-war/
(I forgot to follow my own rules!)

Take care

3 May 2009
14:36

Philip

Just realised that there are other tags which it would be good to strip out as well – generally created by plugins, and generally wrapped in square brackets (but not necessarily so).
A common example is shortcodes to embed a video (eg, [YouTube][/YouTube], used by Vipers Video Quicktags) or a google advertisement in a post. But I also use a little plugin to generate stars for book reviews (PulsSterne) where the shortcode isn’t in square brackets.
So generaly, in an ideal world, the more you can allow the user to add things in, the better

3 May 2009
19:17

Arno Moonen

My idea was to let the user add custom start and end tags.
But my holidays are almost over and I’ve got some exams coming up, so I’m not sure if it will be implemented soon.
I’ll see what I can do.

By the way; I will probably release a first public beta of my wpPortfolio plug-in too (more information will be available on my website at the time).

11 May 2009
13:53

Philip

Not to worry – the exams are the important thing. Meanwhile I’ll start wrapping my captions manually in crss tags.
Good luck

6 June 2009
19:04

Philip

Hi – me again

Hope all is well with you & the exams are going OK.

I noticed a little glitch. If you have two things you want to exclude from the feed, the plugin seems to exclude everything between the first opening crss tag and the second closing /crss tag – thus excluding text that you’d rather keep in the feed. Not a big deal. I’ll just have to make sure I only use the tags once in a post.

Best wishes
Philip

6 June 2009
20:02

Arno Moonen

Thanks, never thought of that, but now I do I reckon it’s quite obvious that this bug would be there.
Exams went okay; only some audition exams left and that’s it.
After that I will try to fix the bug and add the new features!