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CHAPTER 15 STARTING TO BLOG AND BUILDING YOUR COMMUNITY 407 Figure 15-6. A password-protected post Caution The protection of posts available through WordPress s Advanced Editing mode is quite rudimentary. The password is stored in plain text in a cookie on the reader s machine. Anyone else using that same browser will be able to read that post for the next ten days (the lifetime of the cookie). The password is even stored in plain text in the database. Please don t use this feature for anything that is really sensitive. Adding Excerpts The next advanced feature is the Excerpt box, where you can write your own excerpt to describe your post to people browsing feeds. When a reader subscribes to one of the XML feeds available from your blog RSS, Atom, or RDF one of the pieces of information provided as part of that feed is a description, along with the title, date, and so on. This is usually an excerpt of the post content. By default, Word- Press will create that excerpt for you by stripping all the tags from your post and extracting the first 250 or so characters. Often, this will be sufficient for most people s needs. Sometimes, however, the opening sentence or two from your post isn t really a good description of what it is about. It s kind of like the difference between the blurb on the back of a paperback novel and the opening two sentences. If you want to make sure that people browsing the latest feeds will want to visit your blog and read your posts, you should write the excerpt yourself. Think of it as a targeted summary of the post that may additionally improve your site s search engine visibility, as discussed at the end of this chapter. Note You can change the default setting so that the full contents of the post will also be sent with a feed. Click Options, then Reading to display the Reading Options page. In the Syndication Feeds section, check Full text for the For each article, show option. If you specify Summary for that option, only the excerpt is contained in the feed.
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