Comments on: Writing RSS-Reader Friendly Posts

By: Five things that rock in Wordpress 2.8 | rapid-DEV.net

Five things that rock in Wordpress 2.8 | rapid-DEV.net — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:32:35 +0000

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By: Five things that rock in Wordpress 2.8 | Devlounge

Five things that rock in Wordpress 2.8 | Devlounge — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:15:35 +0000

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By: Nick Rinylo

Nick Rinylo — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:37:15 +0000

I actually agree with Ryan Williams, I don’t like the idea of inline styles, this is also poor in terms of SEO. It essentially means that your adding extra lines of code.

By: Chung Bey Luen

Chung Bey Luen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:07:05 +0000

Great tips. I always use header, subheader and short paragraph.

By: Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:10:20 +0000

I’m not sure it’s a good idea to have much beyond the basics (ie: HTML’s default formatting).

If you start putting inline styles in, you risk making your items incompatible with whatever feed reader happens to be displaying it. And with so many different readers out there, all with differing abilities to handle HTML — don’t forget email clients and standalone readers — it’s a bit dicey.

At the very most, I’d say reserve inline styling for floating images. But even then, that could wreck a feed reader that happens to, say, have an extremely thin width (eg: along the lines of iGoogle, although I believe that cleverly forces images to be smaller anyway).

By: Ahmad Alfy

Ahmad Alfy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:29:13 +0000

I liked when you said ( In RSS Readers, content is truly king )
I had all the thoughts you talked about

Specially the last point!! It’s really important!!

@Binny: Inline style-sheet is a bad practice, why would you style posts for RSS anyway?

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:24:12 +0000

This is something I would never recommend in usual circumstances – but its a valid point in this case…
Use inline styles rather than CSS class/id to style elements in your post. As the CSS file is not loaded by the RSS reader, all the style will be lost.