I finally got around to fixing my rss feed today, so I thought I would post this quick snippet as it may be helpful to others. I use the standard RSS template that came with Expression Engine to create my feed the problem was that HTML and images were not showing up in the feed.

This is a simple little fix which requires the following change to the RSS Template:

In the description tag change {exp:xml_encode}{summary}{body}{/exp:xml_encode} to <![CDATA[{summary}{body}]]> this will enable your feed to have both HTML and images shown. Quick and easy for something that can be a pain in the arse.

Maybe I’m a little late to the party but Expression Engine 1.6 has just been released.  If you are not aware of Expression Engine then I would recommend heading over to their site and checking it out, basicly it is a pretty powerful and comprehensive content management system.  I have just recently started using it to power that backend of this site and I am starting to get to grips with using it, albeit, just scratching the surface.

First of all I’m Back ! I’ve not had much of a chance to post much lately, and my site has also been down for the past couple of days, no fault of mine, but that of my host.  All is now good and I can unveil what I’ve been up to.

To the untrained eye everything may seem as normal, but you would be wrong, this site has gone through the next phase of it’s existence and now has a very powerful “special relationship” with a new ally.  What am I gibbering on about? Expression Engine of course.