{"id":746,"date":"2002-10-12T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2002-10-12T20:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/12\/small-update-to-rss-feed\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T16:10:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T00:10:43","slug":"small-update-to-rss-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/12\/small-update-to-rss-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Small update to RSS feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15678,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ranchero.com\\\/software\\\/netnewswire&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20021205190400\\\/http:\\\/\\\/ranchero.com:80\\\/software\\\/netnewswire\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 21:18:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:10:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 04:10:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been reading a ton of sites daily (65 at current count) via <a href=\"http:\/\/ranchero.com\/software\/netnewswire\/\" title=\"NetNewsWire\">NetNewsWire Lite<\/a>. While this allows me to skim through a huge amount of information in a short time, one of the disadvantages is that none of the RSS feeds that the sites provide give any information on comments to a given post (this isn&#8217;t a limitation of NetNewsWire at all, it&#8217;s part of how the RSS feed is written). Since I&#8217;ve often found some really interesting stuff in the discussion threads after a post, this is a bit of a downside.<\/p>\n<p>So, while I doubt that very many people subscribe to my RSS feed, I figured I&#8217;d at least make <em>my<\/em> feed give me the information I want, and changed my feed template slightly. Where the code used to say\u2026<\/p>\n<p><code>&lt;content:encoded&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;$MTEntryBody$&gt;]]&gt;&lt;\/content:encoded&gt;<\/code><\/p>\n<p>\u2026I&#8217;ve altered it to say this\u2026<\/p>\n<p><code>&lt;content:encoded&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;$MTEntryBody$&gt;]]&gt;&lt;MTEntryIfAllowComments&gt; &lt;![CDATA[ (&lt;$MTEntryCommentCount$&gt; Comments)]]&gt;&lt;\/MTEntryIfAllowComments&gt;&lt;MTEntryIfAllowPings&gt;&lt;![CDATA[ (&lt;$MTEntryTrackbackCount$&gt; TrackBack Pings)]]&gt;&lt;\/MTEntryIfAllowPings&gt;&lt;\/content:encoded&gt;<\/code><\/p>\n<p>\u2026so that in my RSS feed, there&#8217;s a short display line that tells whether I&#8217;ve gotten any comments or TrackBack pings for an entry.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe if I&#8217;m really lucky, someone a little higher up in the blogosphere heirarchy will stumble across this and the idea will start to spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiments with my RSS feed, which I continually seem to break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[812,25],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-movabletype","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}