Currently when viewing RSS feeds output by Drupal (taxonomy, user blogs, front page, etc.) the title and teaser are shown. There is no link indicating that this is not the entire story, as there is when viewing items directly on the web. A "read more" link should be added if there is a longer story on the site.

Also, it would be nice to have an option to have the following three sets of feeds:
1) title-only feeds
2) title + teaser feeds (this is what we have today)
3) title + full body feeds

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drumm’s picture

drumm
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RSS aggregators are designed to put in a read more link themselves so adding another would potentially make redundant links. An unintrusive '...' might be desirable, but should work with all teaser generation, so the administrator has the option of appending a '...' to teasers shown in their site to make the same issue apparent.

The other suggestions should go into a new feature request and is doable.

boris mann’s picture

boris mann commented
Component: aggregator.module » node.module

My RSS aggregator (NetNewsWire) doesn't put in a "read more" link. There is no way to tell with all the RSS aggregators that I know of whether or not there is "more" to read.

Ideally, Drupal should add a (configurable) message to those feed items where there is extended text, which links to the full node. So, if teaser == body, there is no message, but if teaser < body, then there is a message/link. This only needs to be displayed in the feed, and could be appended on a per-feed basis.

This should be made an option, so a setting gets added (probably to the node admin screen, since that's where the teaser control is) which is called "Display Read More Link", along with a text box to enter in what you want to label it, e.g. "Read full article" or whatever.

Changing to node.module, since node_feed() is what needs editing.

quux’s picture

quux commented

I'd also like this. Have the 'read more' and 'comments' links in the RSS feed if they are in the nodes.

Marco Palmero’s picture

Marco Palmero commented

Has there been a follow up this this subject?

The only other reference to this issue I could find is:
http://drupal.org/node/21538#comment-75195

I use Bloglines and it looks as if my entry just finished... I find other blogs like wordpress have read more and add comment links at the end of the article teaser/preview

boris mann’s picture

boris mann commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Yes! This is in thanks to walkah...