RSS feed, no description tag

[bitstormdesign]

Hi there,

I have a RSS feed newsletter set up with Mailchimp but for some reason there is no <description> tag in my feed so mailchimp sends the whole post contents instead of just part of it. Can you please advise?

Thanks

Will

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi Will,

Try go to Settings -> Readings -> For each article in a feed, show -> Summary -> Save Changes.

Then check this URL in FF, http://palmyhealing.com/feed/

Let us know,

Thanks,
laranz.

[bitstormdesign]

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[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
I am getting Error establishing a database connection so please contact at hosting provider.

Thanks
Mohammad

[bitstormdesign]

can you please check again? it is coming up for me.

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
I have resolved the issue so please check after clear the browser cache. I pasted this code at functions.php.

function diw_post_thumbnail_feeds($content) {
	global $post;
	$content = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'sf_custom_excerpt', true );
	return $content;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'diw_post_thumbnail_feeds');
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'diw_post_thumbnail_feeds');

Thanks
Mohammad

[bitstormdesign]

Yes thanks thats working.

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
You most welcome.
Thanks
Mohammad

[bitstormdesign]

Hi, this issue is happening again for some reason. Could you please investigate, I tried pasting that code back in as it seemed to be missing. I have not updated the theme so not sure why it has changed. The admin codes remain the same. Thanks Will

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi,

I tried this site, http://palmyhealing.com/feed/ but it shows the image as you want. Screenshot: http://take.ms/keVd9

Let us know,

Thanks,
laranz.

[bitstormdesign]

the image is not the problem, there is no text in the last two posts, this was the original problem, there is no <description> tag in the feed

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi,

You can try some plugins like this https://wordpress.org/plugins/feed-template-customize/ or follow the instruction here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Feeds

Let us know,

Thanks,
laranz.

[bitstormdesign]

Hi there, I updated the theme and again I am having this problem with the rss feed in that the custom excerpt of a post is not being displayed and therefore not being picked up by mailchimp rss feed. The code previously advised to put into the functions.php is not there but I am unsure exactly where to place it and whether that will work. Could you please help?

[David Martin – Support]

Hi,

The code will need to be placed into a child theme, when you run an update the change will be lost.

It should be placed at the end of the functions.php before the closing php tag which will look like ?>.

Thanks,
David.

[bitstormdesign]

So if i copy the current functions.php file from the main theme into the child theme with this code it should work?