Enhanced Feeds liven up your feed
Blogs have a powerful feature called in RSS feeds that enables people to read and keep track of their favourite blogs easily in aggregators like Bloglines and Google Reader. RSS readers of your blog never have to wonder if it has been updated because their news reader will tell them within an hour or two whenever you make a post.
Up until now your feed has been fairly basic. All you got in most aggregators was the post title and the content. Simple to navigate and read, but it left you with so many questions. How do I add this post to del.icio.us? How do I Digg it and has it been Dugg already? I wonder how many comments have been left?
Wonder no longer. Today, your WordPress.com feed can be supercharged with the following fine feed widgets:
- Comment Count
- Categories
- Tags
- “Add to Del.icio.us” link
- “Digg it!” link
- “Stumble it!” link
Comment Count is turned on by default but you can switch all the features on or off as you please. This is what your blog will look like in a news reader with everything turned on.

To activate these goodies, go into the “Reading Options” page (Options->Reading) of your blog and scroll down. You’ll see the following checkboxes where they can be switched on or off.

If you have any ideas for other feed bling we could add, let us know in the comments.

December 18th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Woot! Thanks!
December 18th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
I hope this helps with my traffic. Ive only had two people see my new blog so far. Im still learning everything.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
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December 18th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Killer good!
FeedBurner get a’runnin’!
Do you have plans to automatically push WordPress AdSense or other advertising on our feeds? If so, will we have the ability to turn it off or opt out?
December 18th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
David, no plans to advertise in feeds currently.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Very nice additions! Thank you.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Wow! Looks like the features just keep coming. Keep up the great work guys!
December 18th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Great additions!
Glad to see so many updates being posted lately.
Thanks for the great work you’re all doing!
December 18th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
thi is totally awesome…
December 18th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Now I can keep track of my reader. I call him “George.”
I made him up.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Hi there and thanks for adding this wonderful option.
However, when I added the checkmarks by all the options in this feature and pressed the “update” button, the check marks disappeared. The “comment count” remained, but the others did not take and I tried a couple of times.
Can someone assist me with this problem?
Thanks again.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:00 am
masterclasslady, I just tried it on your blog and it seems to have worked fine. Could you maybe try it again?
December 19th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Checking this out now.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:14 am
pwn. this is a great addition
December 19th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Even though I know nothing I write will be dug, I am very happy with these additions. ^^
December 19th, 2007 at 12:21 am
cool !!
December 19th, 2007 at 12:26 am
I had been expecting this “Add to del.icio.us” for such a long time! and the rest is pleasant too. Thanks a lot.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Good work, but I don’t think you have all the bugs out yet. When I try to check additional boxes and click “save,” the boxes all come unchecked.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Dave Bonta, I don’t see your WP blog, but updating the options is working well in every place we can test it. Try contacting support if you still have trouble.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:52 am
cool. now all i need is some people to start reading my feed!
December 19th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Thanks for that reassurance, Matt! That’s helpful information.
Do you happen to know what happens if we re-burn our now-enhanced RSS with FeedBurner and their promo links that seem to provide similar service to your new links? Will we get double links to Digg and the like or will FeedBurner strip out the extra WP.com adds?
December 19th, 2007 at 12:56 am
David, I imagine you’d have two of the same thing. You should probably pick the widgets from one or the other.
December 19th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Cool!
December 19th, 2007 at 2:15 am
Sweet!!
December 19th, 2007 at 2:57 am
This is wonderful news! I wish I knew what it all meant.
December 19th, 2007 at 3:01 am
Fantastic! Thanks and Merry Christmas!
December 19th, 2007 at 3:33 am
nice!
December 19th, 2007 at 3:53 am
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December 19th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Does this mean that we are going to get the Feed Stats back???
December 19th, 2007 at 4:00 am
Very cool! Ty WP! *Goes to activate all of them now*
December 19th, 2007 at 4:03 am
Fantastic! Thank you for adding these bonus features! I just checked off all six goodies. Look forward to seeing them in action after I add a new post later today.
December 19th, 2007 at 4:09 am
great news
December 19th, 2007 at 4:10 am
Brilliant guys, this will really help us to make maximum use of feeds. You guys are fabulous!
December 19th, 2007 at 4:14 am
Matt, I am also having a similiar experience. After checking each of the boxes and doing the update, none of the options remain checked…like my checking the boxes ever happened. What’s up?
Seems like this has been happening to alot of people from the comments above. There may be a bug ???
Thanks for checking on this matter.
Craig
December 19th, 2007 at 4:27 am
Thank you
December 19th, 2007 at 5:04 am
thank you so very much! This is great!
December 19th, 2007 at 5:06 am
vowwwwwwwwww lets rock !!!!!!!!!!
December 19th, 2007 at 5:15 am
another option would be e-mail this, it is there by default in Google Reader, but I do not know about other aggregators …
and add reddit too, along with digg..
December 19th, 2007 at 5:35 am
You rock!!!
December 19th, 2007 at 5:39 am
Really cool …. wanted this feature for sometime now ….. tnx.
December 19th, 2007 at 5:41 am
BTW, how about having the same but not only for RSS readers, but underneath usual posts, too.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:05 am
I like this 12 days of Christmas thing! Thanks!
December 19th, 2007 at 6:07 am
Hi Matt,
Love the platform.. Thanks!
December 19th, 2007 at 6:33 am
Thanks WordPress! Nice extra just in time for Xmas!
December 19th, 2007 at 6:44 am
WOW!! That’s kick ass!!
Love WP!
December 19th, 2007 at 7:02 am
@David W. Boles Yes, we’re having same links from both feedburner and wordpress.com feed.
@Matt I noticed that now inside the rss there’s the stat count emoticon too. Are you going to reactivate stats too?
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December 19th, 2007 at 7:30 am
Great Addition!
When will it be debugged and available for use?
December 19th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Awesome additions. WP only keeps getting better.
December 19th, 2007 at 8:58 am
December 19th, 2007 at 9:11 am
This is fabulous, thank you very much. Cheers and Happy holidays to all!
December 19th, 2007 at 9:24 am
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December 19th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Maybe a trackback count as well?
This is shiny.
December 19th, 2007 at 9:41 am
this is great! i like it very much. thanks!
December 19th, 2007 at 9:56 am
nice but this don’t work for me. I switch on all checkboxes and update option but … nothing … no change
December 19th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Excellent, but, there’s always a but, how about feed stats.? Now that would be nice.
December 19th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Ok, now that seriously rocks. So much for FeedBurner!
December 19th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Was waiting for this. But like so many others, I am unable to turn on the feature. The boxes get unchecked the moment I check them and update.
December 19th, 2007 at 10:20 am
OH MY GOD! ITS VERY GOOD THANK YOU mr.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:02 am
How about a “reddit” button?
December 19th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Very good.
Thanks
December 19th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
I used the above, thank you very much. I too tho hit ‘update’ and all the checkmarks disappeared except the ‘comment count’. It says my options were saved, but were they?
Thanks
December 19th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Matt,
I am facing the same problem as the one faced by masterclasslady and Dave Bonta. Any suggestions will be of great help.
December 19th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Awesome \m/
December 19th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
nice nice man
December 19th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Sweet! As far as additions, maybe integrating or splicing other feeds into our WP feeds (e.g. twitter, flickr, del.icio.us) may be cool.
December 19th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Great work! But a suggestion: maybe a user selected cut-off for RSS-posts? I know you have the “read more” tag, but maybe something like that that only effects the feeds? Because my blog is imported on the Dutch equivalent of facebook, but it won’t load youtube embeds, and it screws up the layout of my posts (the imported ones). So I would like to have a small bit of description imported, but not the rest! I know the “show summary” option, but it doesn’t display a “click here to read the rest” link, so I get akward situations because it might exactly cut off the main image, or something…
December 19th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Cool!
December 19th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
It would be nice if we could provide a “footer” template for each entry. That way we can drop in our own social bookmarking, etc, code and have it automatically be added with the appropriate title, etc. Right now I have to use AutoHotKey and manually enter the page address and title each time to generate the social bookmarking code for each entry.
December 19th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Feedburner currently tracks syndication and other RSS stats, does WordPress.com offer such stats or plan to? Thanks for the new features, they are appreciated.
December 19th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Great enhancements! Is it possible it have these on the actual blost articles too?
December 19th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
I posted about this yesterday, saying that there will no doubt be requests for further social bookmarking services besides the initial three, and that my preference would be for reddit. This morning, reddit does indeed seem to have been added. Thank you!
December 19th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Thats cool. give me social bookmark buttons on posts please.
December 19th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Great work and thanks for the enhancement of feeds. I love this work and hope i’ll will enjoy!
December 19th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
MANY THANKS!
December 19th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Anything to liven up my feeding. Anything.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Fantastic!!! Thanks so much!
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December 19th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
hello mr. wordpress add balatarin site for iranin and persian language. ok
http://balatarin.com is digg iranian
December 19th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Excellent addition! Thanks a lot.
December 19th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Matt, you guys rock!
Wonder if there’s any discussion about the “font” used for the Posted in… Comments… Add to… bits?
I’ve looked at it in Safari, Google Reader (via Mac browsers) and the font used is blehhhkk
How about Verdana or Trebuchet or (gosh forbid Arial)? Not sure what’s in use but it’s icky.
All the same… Thanks for the helpful tool for traffic gen. Will get to work later tonight and hopefully Twitter the immediate infusion of new commenters.
Gerald in Tulsa
December 19th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Woot, indeed!
December 19th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Wow, thank you this is fantastic!
December 19th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
This is exactly what I have wanted for months! Thank you!
December 19th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Love it! Thanks WordPress!
December 19th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
its working today hooray !
December 19th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
word.
December 19th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
I would like to see a section where you can add static text that sits as a prefix, or a suffix, to all outgoing feeds, but doesn’t appear in the article. I want to encourage readers of my feed to replace the feed from an old site with the new one.
December 19th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Very good, people. Really nice job.
December 19th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Finally I wanted this for so long! Now we got it! Already activated. Maybe in near future you can add the “add to del.icius” and some more widgets for Home page. Thanks
December 19th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Very cool addition indeed but I have some problems too. At first, like masterclasslady and Dave Bonta, I experienced the “unchecked boxes” problem. When I managed to work around it after a few tries and succeded, then nothing new happened on my feeds. I mean, my new posts’ feed appear as before, without the enhancements. Anyway, I’m sure it’ll be fine soon.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
I am having the exact same problem. I tried 3 times yesterday and today again. No go.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:46 am
thanks a lot WP.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:40 am
It’s working now, the options could be saved.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:21 am
I’ve had a similar experience as masterclasslady; yesterday I checked everything except ‘categories’ but when I checked it a moment ago, the only thing that was checked was ‘comment count.’ Trying again; hopefully this time it will take.
Oh yeah, one more thing… can you add an enhanced feed option that will make people respond to my words of wisdom? *LOL*
December 20th, 2007 at 2:28 am
Are the feeds to tags covering only the posts on my blog or all posts within WordPress.com with that tag?
And will these work in EVERY WordPress.com Theme?
December 20th, 2007 at 3:27 am
Thanks
December 20th, 2007 at 5:46 am
Great addition. Will these widgets come up if I edit a previously published post?
December 20th, 2007 at 6:51 am
Awesome. Now if we could only get “add to delicious” or “digg this” links automatically embedded in our actual posts, that would be even better. Currently, we have to enter such links manually.
December 20th, 2007 at 6:54 am
Another feed idea, is giving us a feed count chicklet, like what Feedburner uses. If we could display how many readers we have, then many of us wouldn’t have any reason to burn our feed with feedburner.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:03 am
1 more thing, I checked and yes changing your feed options with WP will duplicate links on your feedburner feed. I had # of comments selected with Feedburner, and WP’s # of comments showed up as well. It is a cinch to deselect the Feedburner options which clash with WP however.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:28 am
we want full feed, but at the same time, we want nice appearance on our blog.
The “read more” stuff, can we have it on our page without the feed becoming partial?
December 20th, 2007 at 8:18 am
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December 20th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Useful, particularly the comment count and categories. Thanks.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Aweesome Stuff !!
December 20th, 2007 at 11:02 am
this is awesome for all the 7 people that read my blog.
but one day, when i’m all rich and famous, this is gonna be the bee’s knees!
December 20th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Nice!
Even though I don’t read my own feed (duh!) its good to know that the readers are getting so much more than just content! Add-it, Stumble-on and Digg-away readers……
December 20th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Nice one… well done all.
December 20th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
nice, thanks!
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December 20th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
It looks very nice.
Bur I can’t get the Digg function t work, att all.
Any clues why?
December 20th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Lots to learn. Thanks for the info!
December 20th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
But why are they images? These images cause a scrollbar at the bottom if there are too many tags. Change them to text, please.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Thanks, I will try to check it out. Probably will not be very good at it - I am such a clutz…
December 20th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Is there anyway to edit the font of these links? It looks like the typeface on my first Apple IIe
December 20th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Is it possible to provide a seperate RSS syndication just for user comments?
I have observed that some of my readers have posted very good comments on some post(better then the post itself), it would be very nice to see the views of such people being available to more web audience..
December 20th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
I turned all of this on yesterday, but I see no difference. Am I doing something wrong?
December 20th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
These feed enhancements don’t work if the sydications feeds are configured to show just summary.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
I’m with ya almostinfamous! Thanks for the great post!
December 20th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
how this stuff works?
December 21st, 2007 at 12:24 am
Cool, good stuff!
December 21st, 2007 at 12:55 am
YES!
December 21st, 2007 at 2:15 am
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December 21st, 2007 at 3:29 am
w00t, just getting to know the basic and you guys keep coming with some more good stuff. Thank you
December 21st, 2007 at 3:32 am
I love that you guys are always improving. Thanks bunches! Any chance that we’ll be getting the RSS stats back again? I miss it as it made me feel so loved!
December 21st, 2007 at 4:38 am
Cool feature! Even though I don’t have very many readers, I always love to see 2.0 functionality expanded. Please, pretty please add a Twitter widget soon!
December 21st, 2007 at 5:50 am
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December 21st, 2007 at 8:02 am
Why only Digg, delicious and stumbleupon?
You should add the Share-this plugin:
http://sharethis.com/publisher?type=wpplugin
December 21st, 2007 at 9:33 am
This is so great, really thanks guys
December 21st, 2007 at 10:01 am
I have two suggestion for you:
1. Please add http://balatarin.com to our feeds?! http://balatarin.com is just like http://Digg.com for Persian language users.
2. Please add a counter for our feeds in our widget of blog like the FeedBurner.com counter.
And also please add a Feed Stat in pour dashboards like Blog Stat!
December 21st, 2007 at 1:30 pm
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December 21st, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Awsome Thnx WordPress
December 21st, 2007 at 6:56 pm
nice enhancements indeed… Thanks a lot…
December 21st, 2007 at 7:50 pm
OK, if you can’t use a less hideous font and colour could you please insert a CSS class in the images so I can hide them? Or if you absolutely can’t, make the .pngs transparent? There are some feeds I’m subscribed to through livejournal, and I don’t care for having my friends’ page defaced.
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:04 am
That is just awesome. I have been waiting impatiently for such a thing on wordpress.com.
I appreciate it. But it will be also good, if Addthis or share this can be added in each post somehow. That builds more interaction with the reader.
Thanks anyways…
December 22nd, 2007 at 5:43 am
Hard work
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Can we get the “Add to” for social bookmarking sites under the main posts too???
December 22nd, 2007 at 3:52 pm
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December 22nd, 2007 at 10:53 pm
OK, if you can’t use a less hideous font and colour could you please insert a CSS class in the images so I can hide them? Or if you absolutely can’t, make the .pngs transparent? There are some feeds I’m subscribed to through livejournal, and I don’t care for having my friends’ page defaced.
December 23rd, 2007 at 4:13 am
Thanks i didnt knew it.
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I have posted two new posts since enabling the features, but they don’t show up. Am I doing something wrong?
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:10 pm
when are you bringing back feedstats?
December 23rd, 2007 at 8:19 pm
The biggest bling that you could add to the feed would be feed stats. For blogs that have short content many people *only* read the feed. Right now we have no way of knowing how many of those there are.
December 24th, 2007 at 4:04 am
Much love WordPress Team. Thank you
December 24th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
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I explained my experiences and evidence of your energy, dedication, and the way you deal with outages.
Best wishes for 2008
December 24th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
That is just awesome. I have been waiting impatiently for such a thing on wordpress.com.
I appreciate it. But it will be also good, if Addthis or share this can be added in each post somehow. That builds more interaction with the reader.
Thanks anyways…
December 24th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
This is really cool. Been waiting for a long time for such awesome features.
December 25th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Keep up the good work. I am looking forward to big things in 2008.
December 25th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Huzzah!
December 26th, 2007 at 4:31 am
YAY!
~Adam
December 26th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
thanks for all the good stuff, i agree with si22 that a “share this” or “send to” would be helpful as well
December 29th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
great stuff ta.
January 1st, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Thanks this will really help boost my hits.
~Soldier 12~
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