Re: Org-mode publish: Some questions when use it for a blog

[Christian Moe]

>> But, generate a RSS feed with ox-rss [1] give me some problems. The
>> README is not really clear on what the Org-mode file should look. And it
>> seems to be done to generate RSS when all blog posts are a headline in
>> the same document. But on my blog, each blog post is on a different
>> document.
>
> Well. You can define a derived dackend for ox-rss. It will require some
> Elisp though. Check out `org-export-define-derived-backend' call in
> ox-rss.el.
>
> Alternatively, I am pretty sure that a number of rss generators already
> exist for static blogs. They are more likely to work using multiple
> individual html pages as input.

I've seen several people solving this by adapting the sitemap
functionality in org-publish, since the sitemap already pulls together
information about different pages. You can configure org-publish to use
a bespoke sitemap-function that formats the sitemap as an Org file
suitable for RSS export with ox-rss. This looks like a clear explainer:

  https://writepermission.com/org-blogging-rss-feed.html

Yours,
Christian