Simply-Basic.com

Author:	John Kolbert
Version:	1.0
Last Update:	August 9, 2008
Compatibility:	2.5+, 2.6+
Description:	Allows you to remove specific content of your posts from RSS feeds using short codes and replace it with any customizable message. Useful for removing embedded videos or images which don’t display properly in RSS readers.
WP-Extend:	http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rssless/
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Skip the nonsense, how do I use it?

• hide specific post content from RSS readers
• replace hidden content with alternate text
• set a default alternate message or set a custom one for each short code
• uses WordPress’ built in short code API
• 2.5+ required

RSSless is a WordPress plugin which allows you to hide specific content in your posts from RSS readers. This is helpful for bloggers who embed videos, images, or other content which doesn’t display or embed correctly in RSS readers. Rather then having RSS readers get blank content, you can simply replace it with customizable message, such as “Please view the original article to watch this video.”

RSSless uses WordPress’ built in short code API. Simply surround the content you want to hide from RSS readers with the [rssless] [/rssless] short code tags (see Usage for full details).

RSSless is fully compatible with the WordPress automatic upgrade feature. If you chose not to use the automatic upgrade feature, disable the plugin, upload your newly downloaded plugin file to your wp-content/plugins/ folder (overwrite the existing one), and reactivate the plugin.

RSSless lets you set a default replacement message. This message will replace your chosen post content in RSS readers should you not specify an alternate message (see Usage, below).

To hide specific content from RSS readers simply surround your chosen content (images, embedded videos, text, etc) with the short code tags. You can replace your content with the default replacement text you set in the Options menu by simply surrounding your content with [rssless][/rssless]. Alternatively, you can chose a custom message for each short code by setting a “text” attribute, such as in the following: [rssless text="Replacement text"][/rssless].

Example:

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This is my post. Isn't it great?
[rssless] My content to be hidden from RSS. [/rssless]
More content.
 
[rssless text="Custom Replacement Message"] This should be hidden from RSS too. [/rssless]
More content.

If the default replacement message set in the Options menu was “This is the default message”, the above short codes would be replaced with the following:

RSS Readers would see:
This is my post. Isn’t it great?
This is the default message.
More content.

Custom Replacement Message
More content.

Readers in your website would see:
This is my post. Isn’t it great?
My content to be hidden from RSS
More content.

This should be hidden from RSS too.
More content.

None yet.

• Version 1.0: primary release on August 9, 2008

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