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.

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Thanks for sharing that website. Thats the best I’ve seen the spec explained. I don’t monetize my blog and don’t ever intend to so I don’t see why I wouldn’t just include the full content if I can get my script to easily export a stripped down version without some of the formatting meant to make it look better on the full site.

    • ericjmoreyEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Amusing fact, the Atom standard was created because people thought that the rss board standards for RSS weren’t described well enough.