Feed Troubleshooting

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...

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

Short answer: Django includes a syndication framework, django.contrib.syndication, that turns a short Python class into a valid...

Every RSS feed makes a quiet decision about how much of each post to expose: the full article body, or just a title and a short...

Most of the time, an RSS feed behaves exactly the way you'd expect: newest post first, in the order things were actually publis...

This is one of the more frustrating troubleshooting situations in RSS auto-posting precisely because every individual piece of ...

An auto-posting tool grabs the image URL out of your RSS feed, hands it to Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest, and trusts that i...

Twice a year, a predictable wave of confusion arrives. Automated posts that had been landing at eight in the morning start land...

Two problems account for most of the confusion people have with automated posting. Either an article that was published weeks a...