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Technical Guide

Technical guides are the deep, mechanism-level explainers for readers who want to understand exactly how something works, not just the steps to set it up — RSS feed anatomy, encoding issues, caching behavior, feed validation, and similar under-the-hood topics. This is the reference tag for troubleshooting content and for anyone building custom tooling around RSS feeds and automated distribution rather than just using an off-the-shelf tool. Recent additions cover team workflows and permissions, what social platform API rate limits mean in practice, how animated images and GIFs survive the trip from feed to network, and finding the feed on less common systems such as Craft CMS. The format is consistent: what the mechanism is, where it breaks, and what to check first when it does. Nothing here assumes you are using any particular tool, because the underlying behaviour is the same whatever reads your feed.
RSS Feed Content-Type: application/rss+xml or text/xml?
Updated: 2026-10-02

Short answer: Serve an RSS 2.0 feed as application/rss+xml; charset=utf-8 and an Atom feed as application/atom+xml; charset=utf...

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How to Debug an RSS Feed with curl: Headers, Redirects, XML
Updated: 2026-10-01

Short answer: When an RSS feed works in your browser but fails in a reader or an auto-posting tool, use curl to see what a serv...

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CDATA and HTML in RSS Descriptions: Escaping Done Right
Updated: 2026-10-01

Short answer: HTML inside an RSS description or content:encoded element must be either entity-escaped (<p>) or wr...

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RSS Date Formats Explained: RFC 822 pubDate Errors and Fixes
Updated: 2026-10-01

Short answer: In RSS 2.0, pubDate and lastBuildDate must use the RFC 822 date format, for example Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +00...

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Which RSS Feed URL to Use When Your Site Has Several
Updated: 2026-10-01

Short answer: For most sites, use the main posts feed: /feed/ on WordPress, /rss/ on Ghost, /feeds/posts/default on Blogger, or...

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How to Write an RSS Feed by Hand: A Minimal Valid Example
Updated: 2026-10-01

Short answer: A minimal valid RSS 2.0 feed is a UTF-8 XML file with an rss root element, one channel containing a title, link a...

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Astro RSS Feed: How to Add One and Auto-Post Every New Page
Updated: 2026-09-30

Short answer: Astro does not create an RSS feed by default, but the official @astrojs/rss package makes it easy. Install the pa...

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Styling Your RSS Feed for Browsers: XSLT, CSS and Alternatives
Updated: 2026-09-30

Short answer: When someone clicks your RSS feed link, most browsers show raw XML, which looks broken to non-technical visitors....

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WordPress Custom Post Type RSS Feeds: Find, Fix and Auto-Post
Updated: 2026-09-30

Short answer: WordPress custom post types, such as events, listings, projects or recipes, can have their own RSS feeds. The add...

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Relative URLs in RSS Feeds: Why Links and Images Break
Updated: 2026-09-30

Short answer: A relative URL such as /blog/my-post/ or ../images/photo.jpg only works inside your own website, because the brow...

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Laravel RSS Feed: Add One With spatie/laravel-feed
Updated: 2026-09-29

Short answer: The most common way to add a feed to a Laravel application is the open-source spatie/laravel-feed package. You in...

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Docusaurus RSS Feed: Blog and Changelog Feeds Explained
Updated: 2026-09-29

Short answer: Docusaurus generates feeds for its blog automatically. With the default classic preset, the blog plugin builds an...

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