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[Question]How to set up RSS for my blog? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/blogging

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I've never dealt with RSS before on a personal level. I've pretty much always used social media to discover blog posts. I'm wanting to set up RSS for my personal blog but since I have no experience, looking for some guidance for best practices. I'm currently setting up a script to automatically update the xml when I publish new posts.

Am I supposed to include the entire post in the description field? Or just a summary? How do I handle the markup and formatting of the post?

Am I supposed to delete items from the feed or do I just keep appending items to the bottom of it?

Its it good practice to include a thumbnail image or anything with the item in the feed? How is that possible.

How do I distribute the feed beyond adding a button on my site?

Thank you in advance to anyone for their advice.

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[–] tvonwolfe 2 points 7 months ago

How do I distribute the feed beyond adding a button on my site?

Some feed readers have the ability to auto-detect the RSS feed, if the site offers one. As an example, if your blog is located at https://mybloggingsite.com and the RSS feed can be accessed on a separate route (e.g. /feed), you can add the following somewhere under the <head> tag:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="https://mybloggingsite.com/feed">

I'd recommend doing this in combination with adding a visible button, so that users can access/subscribe to the feed using either option.