RSS & Atom Feeds

Syndication feeds so readers can subscribe to your content.

TL;DR

  • RSS 2.0 feed at /feed
  • Atom 1.0 feed at /atom

Both serve the 20 most recent published posts. No configuration needed — the feeds are live as soon as you publish content.

Details

Available Feeds

Pubvana provides two syndication feed formats out of the box:

Feed URL Format
RSS 2.0 /feed Standard RSS with <title>, <link>, <description>, <pubDate>
Atom 1.0 /atom Atom with <title>, <link>, <summary>, <updated>

Both feeds are dynamically generated on each request and are not cached.

Feed Content

Each feed includes the 20 most recent published posts, ordered by published_at descending. For each post, the feed includes:

  • Post title
  • Post URL (full absolute URL)
  • Excerpt — the post's excerpt field if set, otherwise the first 500 characters of the post content
  • Publication date
  • Author name
  • Category tags (as feed categories/tags)

Adding Feeds to Your Theme

For feed readers to auto-discover your feeds, add the following <link> tags to your theme layout's <head> section:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed" href="/feed">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom Feed" href="/atom">

Most modern browsers and feed readers auto-detect these tags and display a subscribe option.

Using Feed Readers

Add your feed URL to any RSS reader or aggregator:

  • Feedly: add https://yoursite.com/feed as a new source.
  • Feedbin: add the feed URL under Add Subscription.
  • NetNewsWire, Reeder, Inoreader: all support standard RSS and Atom URLs.
  • Email newsletters: services like Mailchimp, ConvertKit, and Buttondown can auto-send new posts to subscribers via RSS-to-email.

robots.txt

The feed URLs (/feed and /atom) are not blocked by robots.txt and are fully crawlable by search engines and feed aggregators.