An RSS file is a plain text, computer readable file that you add to your website, containing a list of all recent posts that you want to promote.
Anytime I add a post to my blog, I update my RSS file. (Well, a piece of automation does, I could hand edit it, but I’m lla lazy programmer.) Then a service I registered with shares any new posts (posts with today’s date) to services line Mastodon or Lemmy through bot accounts that I set up.
People can also subscribe directly to the RSS feed (file), using various news reading apps. (But I think following RSS through Mastodon and Lemmy bots is becoming more popular, lately?)
You can learn a lot more about the RSS through the RSS Specification, but you may not need to.
I find that WordPress and other blog solutions mostly just make good default assumptions whenever I have turned on the RSS feature or plugin.
Yeah looking into them, never used RSS and not sure how it works? Can you explain it?
An RSS file is a plain text, computer readable file that you add to your website, containing a list of all recent posts that you want to promote.
Anytime I add a post to my blog, I update my RSS file. (Well, a piece of automation does, I could hand edit it, but I’m lla lazy programmer.) Then a service I registered with shares any new posts (posts with today’s date) to services line Mastodon or Lemmy through bot accounts that I set up.
People can also subscribe directly to the RSS feed (file), using various news reading apps. (But I think following RSS through Mastodon and Lemmy bots is becoming more popular, lately?)
You can learn a lot more about the RSS through the RSS Specification, but you may not need to.
I find that WordPress and other blog solutions mostly just make good default assumptions whenever I have turned on the RSS feature or plugin.
Going have to give WordPress a try again been few years so I will see.