Blogger GuidesBlogger site feed settings: full, short or none
Your blog has a feed that apps and readers use. How much of each post it carries is a setting, and it affects what those apps can show.
Where it is
Open Settings, scroll to Site feed, and click Allow blog feed. The options, as Blogger's settings page lists them:
| Option | What the feed contains |
|---|---|
| Full | The entire contents of each post |
| Until Jump Break | Everything before your "Read more" break |
| Short | About the first 400 characters of each post |
| None | The feed is switched off |
| Custom | Separate choices for the post feed, the comment feed and the per-post comment feeds |
Where the feed lives
We checked a Blogger-hosted blog on 13 November 2026: both /atom.xml and /feeds/posts/default answered with an XML feed. The feed address is what feed readers, apps and scripts use.
Why it matters
Anything that reads the feed gets only what the setting allows. With Short, a program that builds pages or lists from the feed has only the first lines of each post, which is not enough to rebuild the article. Services that copy your posts also see only what the feed gives. If you want to give the whole post to subscribers, choose Full. If you want to bring readers to your blog, Short or Until Jump Break sends them to the page, where your own ads and links are.
Other feed settings
- Post feed redirect URL. If you have "burned" your feed with FeedBurner or another service, enter its address here. Blogger then redirects all post feed traffic to it. Leave it blank for no redirect.
- Post feed footer. Text or code added after each post in the feed. It needs "Allow blog feed" set to Full.
- Title and enclosure links. Adds fields to the post editor: a title link (a custom address for the post title) and an enclosure link (for podcasts and audio so that feeds can play them).
Practical advice
- Decide who reads your feed. If nobody uses it, Short is a fine choice.
- If a tool you use stops showing full posts, look here first.
- Never switch it to None without a reason: tools that depend on it will stop.
Test it
Open the feed address in a browser and read what is there. You will see the title and a block of content for each post: its length shows what your setting does.
Does the feed setting change what search engines see?
No. Search engines read your pages. The feed is a separate address.
Can I have a full feed and still show ads?
Use the Post feed footer to add text or ads to full-feed posts, which needs the Full option.
Sources
Read on 13 November 2026. Steps and screen names can change; compare with the current help page.
This is an independent guide. It is not connected with Google or Blogger. Blogger, AdSense and Google are names of Google LLC. The steps follow Blogger Help and AdSense Help as read on 13 November 2026; the Blogger screens change from time to time, so a menu may be named a little differently on your screen.