Set up an RSS feed

Automatically share your Collection content across the web and let people subscribe using an RSS feed.

RSS (Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication) lets people subscribe to a feed of content from a website, blog, or any online publication accessible through email or a reader app like Feedly, FeedBin, or FeedBurner. You can create an RSS feed for any CMS Collection on your site (e.g., blog posts, news articles, recipes, etc.).

Create an RSS feed for a Collection

To create an RSS feed for a Collection you’ll need to enable RSS 2.0 feed in the Collection page’s settings, define your RSS feed’s settings, and publish your site.

Enable RSS 2.0 feed in your Collection page’s settings

To enable an RSS 2.0 feed on a Collection:

1. Open the Pages panel from the left toolbar
2. Hover over the Collection page you want to use for your RSS feed
3. Click the settings “cog” icon
4. Scroll down to RSS Feed Settings
5. Toggle Enable RSS 2.0 feed to on

Define your RSS feed’s settings

To help followers of your RSS feed discover and engage with your content — and to ensure reader apps can validate your feed — make sure to define the following fields:

• Channel Title — The title of your channel as it appears in RSS readers like Feedly. In most cases, your site or blog’s name works best.
• Channel Description — A brief description of the type of content you publish and why people might want to follow it. For blogs, this should summarize your blog as a whole, rather than describe individual articles.
• Item Title — The titles of individual items in your RSS feed, typically matching each Collection item name. Use a Collection field here (e.g., the Name field) to dynamically populate your item titles, unless you want the same title to apply to every item. Alternatively, select Same as SEO Title Tag to automatically match the Collection page’s SEO settings.
• Item Description — A short summary of each item’s content. This description works as a preview for each article. Use a Collection field here as well (e.g., the Post Summary field), or choose Same as SEO Meta Description to automatically match the Collection page’s SEO settings.
• Item Image — The image that appears as a thumbnail in many RSS readers or as the main image in RSS-to-email newsletters. Click the dropdown to choose an image field from your Collection (e.g., Main image, Thumbnail, etc.). Note that if your Collection doesn’t contain an image field, it’s not required to create an RSS feed and you can leave this field blank.
• Item Publication Date — Determines which date appears as the publication date for each item in your RSS feed. You can choose from Created On, Updated On, and Published On.
• Channel Refresh Time — How frequently (in minutes) RSS readers should check your site for new content. Most readers use their own refresh interval (usually around 60 minutes), so this acts as a fallback setting.

You can preview how your feed may appear as you define each of the fields. Once you’re happy with your feed preview, click Save to confirm your feed’s settings.

Publish your site

Once you’ve created an RSS feed for a Collection, you’ll need to publish your site to make the RSS feed URL publicly accessible to users and reader apps.

Copy your RSS feed URL

RSS reader apps and other services (including MailChimp and Zapier) will need your RSS feed URL to set up your channel. You can copy this URL from Pages panel > Page settings > RSS Feed Settings.