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RSS

You can automatically add items to RSS and Atom feeds to which your site’s visitors can subscribe.

RSS feed types​

Brightspot publishes feeds for the following asset types:

  • Section—Assets published in a particular section appear in the section’s feed.
  • Blog—Blog posts appear in the blog's feed.
  • Live Blog—Posts appear in the live blog's feed.
  • Tag—Assets associated with a particular tag appear in the tag’s feed.
  • Page—Assets published in a particular page appear in the page’s feed.
  • Homepage—Assets published in a particular home page appear in the home page’s feed.

See also:

Configuring RSS​

Site level​

This topic explains how to configure RSS at the site level. As part of this configuration, you can customize the feed for the following content types: blog, homepage, live blog, page, section, or tag.

To configure RSS feeds at the site level:

  1. Click > Admin > Sites & Settings.

  2. In the Sites widget, select the site for which you want to configure these settings, or select Global to configure these settings for all sites.

  3. From the Front-End tab, expand the RSS Settings cluster.

  4. Toggle on Disable Feed to prevent Brightspot from populating your site’s feed and remove the existing RSS feed and its previously published items. (A visitor's RSS reader may retain a previously retrieved feed.) Toggle off Disable Feed to enable a feed that you previously disabled. Brightspot restores the feed along with all associated published items.

  5. In the Copyright field, enter a copyright notice. This notice appears in the feed’s copyright tag, which not all RSS readers display.

  6. Toggle on Default To Atom Auto Detect to set the feed as a discoverable Atom feed. Toggle off Default To Atom Auto Detect to set the feed as a discoverable RSS feed.

  7. To customize feeds for specific content types, do the following:

    1. Under Type Specific Feed Overrides, click .
    2. From the Types list, select one of the available content types.
    3. Toggle on Disable Feed to prevent Brightspot from populating your site's feeds with this feed type and remove the existing RSS feed. (A visitor's RSS reader may retain a previously retrieved feed.)
    4. Toggle on Render Full Content to deliver an asset's entire text—not just the title or headline—to the RSS feed as plain text.
    5. From the Enabled Feed Item Types list, select the content types to which these settings apply, or leave blank to apply the settings to all content types. For example, if in step 2 you selected Tag, you can select Article in this field so that these settings apply only to articles with a tag.

  8. Click Save.

Asset level​

You can override site-level RSS settings for individual assets. For example, if you configured an RSS feed for all your site's tags, you can override those settings for a specific tag.

Note

Some content types require prerequisites to be met before establishing an RSS feed:

  • All assets must have an SEO title for RSS feeds to appear. Most assets have this field automatically generated by default; however, ensure that your asset has an SEO title by checking the SEO tab.
  • To successfully configure RSS feeds for homepage and page assets, they must include an inline list in their Content field. The list must be inline and not shared.
  • For other assets, the RSS feed defaults to recently published assets; however, if an inline list exists, the RSS feed defaults to that instead.

To override RSS settings at the asset level:

  1. Search for or create an asset for which RSS is configured.

  2. Under Advanced, expand RSS Settings.

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  3. Using the table below as a reference, configure RSS settings for the asset.

  4. Complete your site's workflow and publish the asset.

FieldDescription
Disable FeedToggle on to remove this asset's RSS feed. (A visitor's RSS reader may retain a previously retrieved feed.)
Render Full ContentToggle on to deliver an asset's entire text—not just the title or headline—to the RSS feed as plain text.
Enabled Feed Item TypesSelect the content types to which these settings apply, or leave blank to apply the settings to all content types. For example, if you are publishing a section, you can select Article in this field so that these settings apply only to articles with a section.

The following illustration is an example of overriding RSS settings for the section Webinars. Regardless of the configuration for sections at the site level, the following is true for the RSS feed for the section Webinars:

  • Brightspot includes only press releases in the Webinars RSS feed.
  • Brightspot includes in the RSS feed only the headline or title, not the body text.
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Sharing RSS feeds​

Brightspot publishes RSS feeds for the content types listed in RSS feed types. In particular, Brightspot constructs the feed's URL from the site's domain, the asset's path, and the suffix .rss.

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Referring to the previous illustration, the path to the Features section is /features. If the site's domain is https://brightspot.com, then visitors can access the section's RSS feed at https://brightspot.com/features.rss.

The following illustration shows how an RSS reader displays assets in the Features feed.

Section feed in an RSS reader