Some recent updates to Feed Control...
RSS templates
Our new standard template now includes the featured image for each item. It's the default template for new feeds with feed generation enabled.
Plus plan users can now choose the SmartNews RSS template, for publishing on the SmartNews news platform. Business plan users can choose SmartNews, Flipboard or MSN News.
Number of items to include
If you've enabled feed generation, you can now set the the number of items you'd like the feed to have. The default is 10. On the Plus plan you can increase this to 20. And on the Business plan to 50.
Google News support
When you go to add a new feed, you'll now see that you can enter a Google News URL. That can be a topic, or a news search. See our blog post to get an idea of what kind of Google News feeds you can produce.
Full-text extraction retries
Feed Controll now tries a number of times to retrieve the full-text content for feed items (when full-text fetching is enabled). When full-text extraction fails, you'll see 'failed' in red in your item listing view. Failed items do not get added to the output feed.
The most common reason for a failed extraction is that the site either has its content marked up in a way that requires custom rules in Feed Control's extractor, or it's refusing Feed Control's requests for the content. If you'd like us to investigate failing extraction, please get in touch.