In my last post, I unveiled my little asides/mini-post/Twitter clone and I asked for input on how to work my site feed. Should I include the mini posts or not? Those of you with a preference were unanimous: keep the mini posts in the main feed. Well, you were mostly unanimous. Three feeds were suggested.

I didn't think of it, but a good idea is a good idea. So… there are now three feeds for your subscribing pleasure.

The main site feed, the one you're most likely subscribed to already, will remain as-is and will include all posts. The feed icon in the upper right will continue to point to this feed, which can still be found at http://feastofcrumbs.com/blog/feed/

Category feeds have always been available, even if you never knew about it, and this one is no exception. The feed for only the Cuppa mini posts is linked in the Cuppa box in the sidebar and can be found at http://feastofcrumbs.com/blog/category/cuppa/feed/

Finally, a brand spanking new option. For any of you who don't care for them, there's now a feed that includes all posts except the mini posts. It's an ugly url, and it took some beating on my FeedBurner plugin, but here it is: http://feastofcrumbs.com/blog/?feed=rss2&cat=-33

All three of these feeds are set for autodiscovery in my theme header. If you give your feed reader the blog url (or the url of any other page, for that matter) you should be presented with a choice of feeds. If you're one of the people who wanted to keep the mini posts in the main feed (thanks for your opinions, by the way), you don't need to do anything. Continue using the feed you have been and you'll continue to see all the content.

Lately I've had an inclination to post many small things. I haven't, mostly because I'd feel a little silly throwing out a lot of ten word posts. So I worked out something different.

At the top of the sidebar I now have a special block just for those short posts, titled "Cuppa." It's essentially the same thing as "asides" you might have seen on other blogs. It's kind of my own answer to Twittter. With that block, they're removed from the flow of the rest of the blog so if you don't want to see them, you don't have to.

One question, though. Should I separate that in the site feed? Would those of you who subscribe to my feed prefer a second feed for those posts?

I tweaked the post byline a little bit. What was one long line that (on most screen sizes) would wrap into several lines, is now two separate lines. Category and tag links now appear on a second line beneath the other meta information.

I was starting to get annoyed by the fact that the addition of tags would always wrap the comment link onto the next line. Differing numbers and length of tags were making it so the comment link never appeared in exactly the same place twice. That blows. If having to look for the comment link annoyed me, I'm pretty sure it annoyed you twice as much.

So yeah, that's fixed. The first byline will basically always remain the same length, so the comment link will be in the same spot on every post. Much better, I think.

I'm also experimenting with adding a fingerprint to my site feed, which is the real reason for this post. I'm sure you would have noticed and adapted to the byline change without me pointing it out. But I need a new post to test the feed settings.

The feed now has a footer containing two paragraphs. The first paragraph, the one I want visible, is:

© Some rights reserved. Licensed by Creative Commons.

Be a pal and please let me know if your feed reader displays that paragraph, the hidden paragraph after it, neither or both.

This particular post will be this blog's last using the Blogger engine. My new blog will be powered by Wordpress and will located right here. You will not need to update any bookmarks or links.

The migration process is not instantaneous so do not be surprised if you do not see what you expect within the next hour or so.

Note to RSS/Atom users: Although the location of my blog will not change, my site feed will. You will need to update your feed aggregator.