Steps to create an RSS feed on your website

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Every blogger I know (myself included) aspires to create a large community around their blog. To do this, it is very useful to be able to notify your followers every time you write something new. One way to do this is through the RSS feed of the site. In this post I will tell you what that is and how to create an RSS feed so that people can keep up to date with your news.

What is an RSS feed?
An RSS feed or RSS file (from Rich Site Summary) is an XML file that contains a specific version of the latest posts published on the blog, and is updated when there is a new publication.

This alone may not be very useful, but this is where the band database part comes into play, feed readers. Feed readers or RSS readers serve to subscribe to the feed of any website and notify the user every time a new post appears on the website (and even read the content in whole or in part without entering the website).

How to create an RSS feed?
Depending on the content management system, many websites have their own feed by default. For example, if you use WordPress, you probably already have a feed, even if you don't know it. You can find it by adding /feed at the end of your domain URL (yourwebsite.com/feed).

In that case, you don't need to do anything else except put a link to the feed in your sidecar (or wherever you want) so that people can easily find it and add it to their RSS reader.

If you don't have your own feed, all is not lost, there are tools that allow you to create one online. One of them is fetchrss.com . You have to enter the URL of your site and then to generate the feed you will have to select a few things like the title and summary. It can be a bit complicated, so I recommend you take a look at the tutorial on the page.

I also warn you that it is not always possible to create an RSS feed from scratch, but don't worry, because normally, if you use a CMS like WordPress, your website already has one and you don't have to resort to these tricks.

Alternatives to RSS feeds
And even if you can't create a feed, there are other ways for people to follow your website. You can create a newsletter or simply make a social media profile. The important thing is that people who want to keep up to date with your posts can do so.