After many hours of tooling around I found a reference to Customizing Read More and this handy post here which mentions enabling the "Read More" on pages aside from the main page of your blog. Even those two pages were not enough. I had to track down exactly where the RSS pages were and then hack them specifically to make it work. Here's how to do it:
- Look for the wp-includes/feed-rss2.php and wp-includes/feed-rss.php scripts in your Wordpress folder
- Look for code that looks like "<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss() ?>]]></content:encoded>" and replace it with: "<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_content('<strong>Read More...</strong>'); ?>]]></content:encoded>"
- Add <?php $more = false; ?> right before the content encode portion of the RSS files. This part is necessary because the the_post() function sets $more to 1 and this prevents the Read More from working.
The final code looks something like this:
global $more;
$more = false;
?>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_content('Read More...'); ?>]]></content:encoded>