Wordpress Blogging Tip – Changing Feed From Summary to Full Text

It is funny how things work. I’ve been blogging for well over a year now, but I went crazy yesterday trying to figure out how to do the simplest thing to my new blog. I wanted to change the feed output from summary to full text, but for the life of me couldn’t figure out how. I looked online for almost an hour, but without success. After going back into my control panel, I had that aha moment, fixed it, and then kicked myself for being so oblivious.

Changing feed results from Summary to Full Text
This is a really easy process:

1. Log in to your WordPress administration page
2. Go to Options
3. Go to the sub-menu Reading
4. Under “Syndication Feeds” go to “For each article, show:” and select Full Text
5. Click on Update Options and you’re done!

Why make the change?
Now that I subscribe to well over 100 blog feeds, I don’t have as much time to read them all. While some claim that using a summary may be an incentive for people to actually visit the blog itself instead of the feed, I find that unless the article REALLY catches my eye, I’m going to move on. I’m more likely to go to and read an article that has a full text feed, because I can quickly scan it on my reader – there may be some interesting material that doesn’t make it to the summary that is a cause for reading the post.