Add <link rel="alternate"> to header

[kevquirk]

I'm using this plugin for my site, but I was surprised to see that <link rel="alternate"> was not added to the header automatically.

Adding this to the header is trivial, but I would have expected to see this added automatically to aid in feed discovery.

Can a fix be added that automatically add the code below to the base.html.twig file?

<!-- RSS -->
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://gravdomain.com/home.rss" />
<!-- End RSS -->

[feutl]

Would love to see this as well. Btw. even if it seems trivial, but could you tell me how this is done with the standard quark theme being used?

Thanks

[jeremycherfas]

Yes, I too was surprised that it wasn't inserted automatically. But it is easy enough, as Kevquirk said. If you edit /user/themes/quark/templates/partials/base.html.twig to insert those three lines (or just the middle one!) somewhere between line 8 and lines 18, it should work fine.

[rzw]

I'm not so sure it's that trivial. Changing base.html.twig puts it on every page, right? But if you play by Google rules it should only be on one page - the main podcast page. This is what I picked up:

Google is very strict on this, you can only have one link rel=”alternate” …> in any given page and they only want to see it on the main webpage for your podcast website, not all pages.

My fix was an extra podcast template with {% extends 'partials/audio.html.twig' %} at the top instead of base.html.twig having the rel="alternate" in there then.

[domsson]

My approach to the problem @rzw brought up was to amend the base.html.twig template as follows:

{% block head %}
    {# the usual contents #}
    {% block head_content %}{% endblock %}
{% endblock %}

Which then enabled me to have a blog.html.twig which does:

{% block head_content %}
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="{{ base_url }}.rss">
{% endblock %}

However, I think an alternative (or maybe additionally), there could be some if block that checks for whether or not the page has the content header field - same condition as the plugin uses to generate the feed in the first place. Something like this (untested, just to illustrate):

{% block head_content %} {# maybe #}
    {% if page.header.content %}
        <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="{{ base_url }}.rss">
    {% endif %}
{% endblock %} {# maybe #}

[symgryph]

I added this to my blog theme. It seems to work nicely. I tried it with the for pay theme of typhoon theme. It worked. Thanks for the tip.