Increase the 50 Item limit on Blogger RSS Feeds

Adapted from my original article How to Increase the 50 Item Limit in Your Blogger Blogspot RSS Feed.

How to Increase the 50 Item Limit in Your Blogger Blogspot RSS Feed

"How do you show more than fifty items on your Blogger RSS Feed?" Google's Blogger site is great for setting up a blog.  The software is easy to use, and even generates an RSS feed of the content.  One complaint a lot of people share though is that the feed only shows your most recent 50 items. What if you do a podcast and want hundreds of episodes to show up? What if you want your RSS feed to go all the way back to your first entry? There's a fix for that.

Step 1. The first step it to get the RSS feed of your Blogger. This is usually http://YOURNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default but you can also get the URL by going to your Blogger and copying the link at the bottom labeled Subscript to: Posts (Atom)

Step 2. While you're logged in to your Blogger account, go to Google's feedburner utility at feedburner.google.com. On the main page there's an entry box for a URL. Input your Blogger RSS feed.  At the very end of the feed, you need to add "?max-results=X" where X is how many entries you want to show. Once you're set, click "Next" button.

Step 3. The service is going to ask you to enter a title and your desired URL. Your feed will be indexed best if the title and URL are similar to your Blogger title.  Neither of these will effect your end goal of increasing your RSS item limit, but are helpful none the less.

Step 4. You'll be greeted with a "Congratulations!" screen.  Copy your new Blogger feed URL and hit the "Next" button.  You're ready to move on to the next step, but if you want to use this site to track your feed stats you can set them up here.

Step 5. Go back to your Blogger page and click "Settings". Go to "Site Feed".  Paste the URL you copied in the last step into the "Feed Redirect URL" box.  You can also change the amount of each Blogger entry that gets posted to the feed.  When you're done click "Save Settings" and notice that you now have a nice long feed!