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[Question]How to set up RSS for my blog? (self.blogging)
submitted 8 months ago by TORFdot0 to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mine uses php to populate the xml file with the most recent seven posts. This means I never have to manually add or remove anything.

I don't recommend using the full post body as the description, either a blurb or the first paragraph should be fine.

If you want, I can send you my file, both raw php and final result.

[–] TORFdot0 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would really appreciate if you could DM me your feed xml as an example.