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How do you add an RSS feed to your own blog? Maybe my google-fu is failing me these days but all I'm getting is how to create one for your podcast. I'd just like people with an rss reader to be able to access my blog as a feed

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Depends on how your blog is generated. Static generators like jekyll have plugins for this[1], but it’s also easy enough to generate it by hand with an xml template [2]. Wordpress, substack and other platforms generate it by default afaik.

[1] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed

[2] This is mine: https://github.com/facundoolano/olano.dev/blob/main/src/feed...

I just roll my own website with mostly hand-written html/css. Ill look into just dropping a handwritten xml into the root

Make sure to also include a link tag in all the website headers, so the feed is discoverable by readers:

     <link type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" href="/feed.xml" title="olano.dev"/>

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