Add page description to RSS feed?
So in my site's head I've added {{> description}} which will take the summary field from my front matter and add it to the page's HTML meta.
I'm trying to create a second RSS feed that, instead of containing the entire post contents, I'd like to have the page description from the meta and a link to the post. This is so I can use Micro.blog to automatically crosspost a summary, rather than the entire (poorly formatted) post.
So I've tried adding the following to my RSS file, but it isn't working:
<description>
<![CDATA[ {{#encodeXML}} {{{description}}} {{/encodeXML}} ]]>
</description>
I've also tried {{> description}} and {{{summary}}} but none are working.
How do I add the page description to this RSS feed?
Thanks.
You should use {{> description}} and then make sure that the view for your new feed file has a corresponding description partial in your template's package.json file. See the one for your entry, as an example:
https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot/blob/master/app/templates/latest/blog/package.json#L72
Answered 2 years ago · Edit answerThanks for the reply, but that didn't work unfortunately - I'm probably doing it wrong. Here's what I added to my package.json file:
"social-feed.rss": {
"partials": {
"description": "{{{entry.summary}}}"
}
},
Then I added {{> description}} into the RSS feed, but it's just blank. :/
Ah! That was silly of me – try this instead in your new feed's template file:
<description>
<![CDATA[ {{#encodeXML}} {{{summary}}} {{/encodeXML}} ]]>
</description>