Les Jones

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I think I have a handle on MovableType's RSS features. My RSS feed now includes the entire post, with HTML. I opened the RSS 1.0 Index template and replaced this:

{description}{$MTEntryExcerpt encode_html="1"$}{/description}

with this:

{description}{$MTEntryBody encode_xml="1" remove_html="0" $}{/description}

(I'm using {} instead of angle brackets to bypass the comment code's HTML filter.)

Also, it turns out I had a major mis-understanding that's worth explaining in case anyone else is as confused as I was. A long time ago in this post I asked about all of the RDF fluff in the source code on my front page. I had thought the fluff was related to the RSS feed, but it's actually used to generate TrackBack information. (The RSS 1.0 information is in the index.rdf file, which is generated by MovableType's RSS Index 1.0 template.) The MovableType $MTEntryTrackbackData$ tag generates the fluff, which does include a lot of the same information as the RSS feed.

I noticed that VodkaPundit didn't have the RDF fluff on his main page, but did have it on his individual archive pages. That made sense to me, so I removed the $MTEntryTrackbackData$ from the main page, but left it on my individual pages. That cut my page size by about 25%. Everything seems to work. My test post generated correct TrackBack pings for two out of three sites I pinged (using MovableType and HaloScan), but for whatever reason didn't work with TypePad.

If you have TrackBack capability, I'd appreciate it if you'd link to this page so I can make sure inbound TrackBacks work.