distill: RSS customization does not work

The https://rstudio.github.io/distill/blog.html#rss-feed post explains different ways to customize a distill website, including how to add a full-content RSS feed or create a separate feed for different categories. I have followed these guidelines, but without any success - the output only has one RSS feed with just a summary of the content. I created a minimal website example at https://nowosad.github.io/testsite/, source code at https://github.com/Nowosad/testsite.

I also checked many existing distill websites listed at https://distillery.rbind.io/showcase.html, and I was unable to find any with a full content RSS feed or create a separate feed for different categories.

I am using the most recent GitHub version of distill.

Related issues:

  1. https://github.com/rstudio/distill/issues/99
  2. https://github.com/rstudio/distill/issues/33

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  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments: 15 (1 by maintainers)

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Maybe this could be important to say: both issues mentioned in the first post are still present:

  1. a full content RSS feed is impossible to create
  2. a separate feed for different categories does not work

I confirm this is a bug introduced by a change in rmarkdown. It took me some time to find but I believe I found it. However, it seems it may not be the only issue. Hopefully, I’ll be able to push a fix soon.

Thanks for getting back to me. So 2 is the same as #381 then, and 3 may be related. I’ll look into that. Sorry for the trouble

Can you try with the PR branch ?

remotes::install_github("rstudio/distill#380")

and tell me if this fix the issue for you ?

You may need to re render your post in the blog section.

Sorry, I had the most questions, but not the most answers, and I don’t use distill regularly. 🙂