Adding an RSS feed
Posted on 6th January 2020
One of the essential things any good blog must have is an RSS feed. I know this because I've been using feed readers like Feedly to keep up to date with some of my favourite websites and authors, and any site I came across that I wanted to follow that didn't have one was soon ejected from my tiny pathetic memory.
As I used the starter kit to make this Gatsby site, it didn't come with an RSS feed, but fortunately installing the relevant plugins and getting it up and running was a piece of 🍰, the official Gatsy docs on adding an RSS feed had 90% of the information I needed.
That last 10% was the ability to filter out draft posts from the feed, which I'd already done previously - see my Day 4 post - so I could just copy the logic into the allMarkdownRemark part of my graphql query.
allMarkdownRemark(sort: { order: DESC, fields: [frontmatter___date] },filter: {frontmatter: {draft: {ne: true}}}) {
And that's it! If you want to follow along with the progress of this site, you can subscribe to my feed, here's the link - https://www.pursuitofloot.com/rss.xml
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