+++ title = "Feeds" weight = 50 aliases = ["/documentation/templates/rss/"] +++ If the site `config.toml` file sets `generate_feed = true`, then Zola will generate a feed file for the site, named according to the `feed_filename` setting in `config.toml`, which defaults to `atom.xml`. Given the feed filename `atom.xml`, the generated file will live at `base_url/atom.xml`, based upon the `atom.xml` file in the `templates` directory, or the built-in Atom template. `feed_filename` can be set to any value, but built-in templates are provided for `atom.xml` (in the preferred Atom 1.0 format), and `rss.xml` (in the RSS 2.0 format). If you choose a different filename (e.g. `feed.xml`), you will need to provide a template yourself. **Only pages with a date will be available.** The feed template gets five variables: - `config`: the site config - `feed_url`: the full url to that specific feed - `last_updated`: the most recent `updated` or `date` field of any post - `pages`: see [page variables](@/documentation/templates/pages-sections.md#page-variables) for a detailed description of what this contains - `lang`: the language code that applies to all of the pages in the feed, if the site is multilingual, or `config.default_language` if it is not Feeds for taxonomy terms get two more variables, using types from the [taxonomies templates](@/documentation/templates/taxonomies.md): - `taxonomy`: of type `TaxonomyConfig` - `term`: of type `TaxonomyTerm`, but without `term.pages` (use `pages` instead) Enable feed autodiscovery allows feed readers and browsers to notify user about a RSS or Atom feed available on your web site. So it is easier for user to subscribe. As an example this is how it looks like using [Firefox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox) [Livemarks](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/?src=search) addon. ![RSS feed autodiscovery example.](rss_feed.png) You can enable posts autodiscovery modifying your blog `base.html` template adding the following code in between the `` tags. ```html {% block rss %} {% endblock %} ``` You can as well use an Atom feed using `type="application/atom+xml"` and `path="atom.xml"`. All pages on your site will refer to your post feed. In order to enable the tag feeds as well, you can overload the `block rss` using the following code in your `tags/single.html` template. ```html {% block rss %} {% set rss_path = "tags/" ~ term.name ~ "/rss.xml" %} {% endblock rss %} ``` Each tag page will refer to it's dedicated feed.