Bunto Feed plugin

A Bunto plugin to generate an Atom (RSS-like) feed of your Bunto posts

Installation

Add this line to your site's Gemfile:

gem 'bunto-feed'

And then add this line to your site's _config.yml:

gems:
  - bunto-feed

Usage

The plugin will automatically generate an Atom feed at /feed.xml.

Optional configuration options

The plugin will automatically use any of the following configuration variables, if they are present in your site's _config.yml file.

name - The title of the site, e.g., "My awesome site"
description - A longer description of what your site is about, e.g., "Where I blog about Bunto and other awesome things"
url - The URL to your site, e.g., http://example.com. If none is provided, the plugin will try to use site.github.url.
author - Your name, e.g., "Dr. Bunto." This can be a string (with the author's name), or an object with the following properties:
- name - Required Display name of the author
- email - Email address of the author
- uri - Webpage where more information about the author can be found

Already have a feed path?

Do you already have an existing feed someplace other than /feed.xml, but are on a host like GitHub Pages that doesn't support machine-friendly redirects? If you simply swap out bunto-feed for your existing template, your existing subscribers won't continue to get updates. Instead, you can specify a non-default path via your site's config.

feed:
  path: atom.xml

To note, you shouldn't have to do this unless you already have a feed you're using, and you can't or wish not to redirect existing subscribers.

Optional front matter

The plugin will use the following post metadata, automatically generated by Bunto, which you can override via a post's YAML front matter:

date
title
excerpt
id
category
tags

Additionally, the plugin will use the following values, if present in a post's YAML front matter:

author - The author of the post, e.g., "Dr. Bunto". If none is given, feed readers will look to the feed author as defined in _config.yml. Like the feed author, this can also be an object.

Meta tags

The plugin exposes a helper tag to expose the appropriate meta tags to support automated discovery of your feed. Simply place {% feed_meta %} someplace in your template's <head> section, to output the necessary metadata.

Why Atom, and not RSS?

Great question. In short, Atom is a better format. Think of it like RSS 3.0.

Contributing

Fork it (https://github.com/bunto/bunto-feed/fork)
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request

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