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RSS Feed

This tag covers how to locate, structure, and troubleshoot an RSS feed for use with automation tools like PostRSS. A well-formed feed item needs a title, a link back to the original content, and ideally a summary and featured image, since PostRSS uses all of these to build the resulting social media post automatically. Articles here cover common feed problems, missing images, broken links, or feeds that update irregularly, and how to fix them before connecting the feed to PostRSS. This tag pairs well with platform-specific guides once your feed itself is confirmed to be working correctly. Diagnosing feed quality first, before troubleshooting a specific network's posting behavior, is usually the fastest way to resolve automation issues.
What Happens to Your Auto-Posting Setup When You Migrate or Change Domains
Updated: 2026-09-29

A domain migration or CMS switch is one of the most common ways an otherwise-working RSS auto-posting setup silently breaks — n...

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RSS Auto-Posting to Microsoft Teams: Setup Guide and Limitations
Updated: 2026-09-29

Microsoft Teams can absolutely receive RSS feed updates as posts in a channel, but the mechanism behind it changed meaningfully...

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Best WordPress RSS Feed Plugins in 2026 (Beyond the Default Feed)
Updated: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-27 Short answer: you probably don't need a plugin at all — WordPress's built-in feed already...

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RSS Feed Encoding Issues: Why Special Characters and Emoji Break Auto-Posted Content
Updated: 2026-09-29

Garbled characters in auto-posted content — curly quotes turning into "’", emoji showing as boxes, accented letters replaced ...

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RSS Auto-Posting for Multi-Author Blogs: What Changes With Multiple Writers
Updated: 2026-09-29

RSS auto-posting doesn't care how many people write for your blog — a feed is a feed regardless of author count, and any auto-p...

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How Many Items Should Be in Your RSS Feed? (And Why It Matters for Auto-Posting)
Updated: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-27 Short answer: 15–20 items suits most blogs and news sites, and the 10 or 15 most CMS platforms de...

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Is Your RSS Feed Public? What Site Visitors (and Competitors) Can See in It
Updated: 2026-09-29

Yes — by default, your RSS feed is just as public as your website itself. Anyone who knows or guesses the URL (typically /feed/...

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How Many Social Accounts Can You Connect to One RSS Feed?
Updated: 2026-09-29

One RSS feed doesn't have to mean one social account. Most RSS automation tools, PostRSS included, let you connect a single fee...

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RSS vs Webhooks vs API Polling: How Automation Tools Actually Detect New Content
Updated: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-27 Short answer: webhooks are instant but only work if the publisher supports them; API polling is structu...

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FeedBurner Alternative in 2026: What to Use Now That It’s Basically Dead
Updated: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-27 Short answer: there is no single replacement, because FeedBurner did three unrelated jobs. Use your CMS...

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RSS Feed Not Updating? How to Diagnose and Fix It
Updated: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-27 Short answer: work through it in order rather than guessing. Load the feed URL directly in a browser an...

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Best RSS Reader Apps in 2026 (and Why They Don’t Replace Auto-Posting)
Updated: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-27 Short answer: a reader pulls content in for you to read; an auto-poster pushes your content out so an a...

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