Iβve never dealt with RSS before on a personal level. Iβve pretty much always used social media to discover blog posts. Iβm wanting to set up RSS for my personal blog but since I have no experience, looking for some guidance for best practices. Iβm 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.
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 donβt 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.
I would really appreciate if you could DM me your feed xml as an example.