How to add a footer to the RSS feed

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I want to add a custom footer to the RSS feed of one of my blogs, so every new item or article shows a footer (short description, contact information) in an RSS reader.

I found a few articles for Wordpress but I can’t find a way to do it in the micro.blog nor in the Hugo documentation. I’m not too savvy.

Anybody knows how to do that? Thanks in advance.

2

You’d have to edit your theme and go into the RSS template and JSON feed templates to add your footer directly there.

3

Thank you, Jason. That’s exactly what I was looking at. I think I have to tweak the layouts/_default/rss.xml template. But I’m not able to find the exact code to make it work.

4

ChatGPT told me to add a paragraph to the <description> tag in the template:

<description>
        {{ .Content | html }}
        <p>For further info <a href="mailto:your-email@example.com">send me an email</a>.</p>
</description>

I was hopeful, but it didn’t work.

5

You can’t put HTML like that into RSS(XML). Either you need to use CDATA or escape the HTML.

6

Alternatively, you could put your footer paragraph in partial and then process it like content, passing it into HTML like the above… something like

{{ partial layouts/rss_footer.html | html }} I think might work, I haven’t tried.

7

Thanks a lot, @jsonbecker. It did not work. I tried both the CDATA and the partial methods (I don’t really know what I’m doing, but at least I found out that {{ partial "layouts/rss_footer.html" | html }} needs the "" marks around the template’s name, otherwise it gave a parsing error with the /character).
I’ll keep looking, thanks a lot.

8

I don’t see any indicator that this is making it to your RSS feed. What theme are you using? I’m beginning to suspect you’re editing the wrong template.

9

I’m using the Sumo Theme and editing the layouts/_default/rss.xml template