HUGO Limited RSS

After trying various tips and tricks, I found a solution.

There were a lot of older posts claiming you could turn off the RSS in sections frontmater and on in some other. This I found out to be a fallacy, all I managed was to turn it off totally or on totally.

The solution does not lay in the frontmater, at least not for me, it lies in the rss.xml file in the themes directory.

The full path to the file will be <webroot>/themes/PaperMod/layouts/_default/rss.xml

This is of course for the PaperMod theme so your mileage may vary depending on your theme.

Once inside the file the line you are looking for is {{- range $pages }} on mine it was line 67 in the file.

Here is the surrounding code block:

    {{- with .OutputFormats.Get "RSS" }}
    {{ printf "<atom:link href=%q rel=\"self\" type=%q />" .Permalink .MediaType | safeHTML }}
    {{- end }}
    {{- range $pages }}
    {{- if and (ne .Layout `search`) (ne .Layout `archives`) }}

Once you have that line located you need to edit it to read as follows, (backup now):

{{ range where (where .Site.Pages ".Section" "post") "Kind" "page" }}

The .Section on mine was post, I have seen others use blog. It all depends on you setup, so prepare for a little trial and error, remember the backup.

The net result of this is that only the post type of entry will end up in the RSS feed. The nice thing with HUGO is that you can check all this before deploying you blog updates. Vivaldi has a nice built in RSS reader that makes this very easy, just a tip, not a sales pitch.

Now remember the backup don’t come crying to me if it all goes pear shaped, your terminal will show you if there is and error, syntax or otherwise, so keep it in view.

I want to play more later and see about adding extra code to have an RSS for other parts of this blog, but that is for another day.