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First; let me admit: The idea behind this post is not mine!

One of my readers typed in Google:”make your feed better” as a search term, which made me think and take a second look at my own blog feed:
How would I improve on it?
What would make my Blog Feed really Better?

Your blog feed is your broadcasting station on the web: You allow us to display your content on our blogs via your feed,and we rewrad you back by spreading the word about your blog and subscribing to it. In the age of speed reading, blog surfing and “give me info now“, it is a badge of honor to have more subscribers, more trafic to your blog is a good result too!

Your typical Blog Feed is a stripped down version of your blog: Blog Title, Blog Slog, Post(s) headings and an excerpt of each of your posts, Simple, and to the point reading material.

But:

• What if your post image is a part of your post and you want to display it just right?
• What if you want to include your blog pages in your feed?
• How about if you want to share your content but not give it away to content thiefs?
• And what if you want your feed to be not so borring 1, 2, 3 kinda list?
• Copyright…Anyone?

Here are a few plugins that would let you do just that (and more),  I would have called them: Better Feed Plugins; but the name is taken already:

MediaRSS

Author Description

“MediaRSS is a way of embedding media into your feeds….. provides for many kinds of media: audio, video, etc. This plugin is equipped to locate img tags in your posts and generate XML code that can be used by feed readers..”

RSS Includes Pages

Author Description

“Modifies RSS feeds so that they include pages and not just posts. Deactivating the plugin restores RSS feeds to their default state.Including pages in your feed is particularly useful if you’re using WordPress as a CMS where pages represent a good portion of your content..”

RSS Add Image Header

Author Description

“This plugin will allow you to add one image or logo of your choice (defined in settings) to your RSS feed header. It is very simple to install/maintain and will add your website’s presence to your RSS feeds by giving it this personal touch..”

RSS Just Better

Author Description

“It displays a list of feed items from a given feed URL. You can select the number of displayable items, whether you want publication date, time and/or excerpt (and how many chars of it). The user can choose to have a ordered (numbered) or unordered (bullet-point) list and to open a new windows or not, when clicking on the linked items..”

FD Feedburner Plugin

Author Description

“Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com. It does this seamlessly without the need to modify templates, setup new hidden feeds, modify .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed. All existing feeds simply become Feedburner feeds seamlessly and transparently for all users. Just tell the plugin what your Feedburner feed URL is and you’re done..”

Anti Feed-Scraper Message

Author Description

“Helps prevent your RSS feed from being “scraped” (copied and reposted elsewhere), by adding a customizable message with a link to your original post. When the plugin is activated, a default message is shown. This message can then be configured in the options page..”

WCM Page Feeder

Author Description

“WCM Page Feeder lets you easily create and customise an RSS feed for your pages. Customize your feed using the settings page or via URL parameters. This plugin is great for those who use WordPress as a CMS solution and want to pull content into their site other than using the WordPress environment. The latest release now feeds single pages.

Customise the following options:

• Feed single pages
• Define the maximum number of pages to show in your feed
• Get child pages
• Get parent pages
• Order ascending/descending
• Sort by column page_title etc..
• Filter Authors

Feed Layout

Author Description

“Feed Layout lets to modify the feed contents adding headers, footers, copyright notices. You can add a copyright notice to every post, a link in the bottom like a “continue reading”, link to specila contents your reader can access only subscribing the feed, ads form ads servers like Tradedoubler, Zanox and so on..”

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