exclude posts from feed

[arielelkin]

Hello folks

I'd like to generate feeds for collection items only, not posts.

In my _config.yml file I have:

feed:
  collections:
    authors:
      path: "/feed.atom"

This generates the desired _site/feed.atom, but it also generates a feed.xml of the posts. How can I suppress generation of feed.xml?

[ashmaroli]

@arielelkin As of now, there's no option to disable generation of the posts' feed.xml. The workaround would be overwriting the default feed with your feed by using the path: "feed.xml" setting instead of the feed.atom as in your suggestion. But yes, that is a brittle solution.

[arielelkin]

Thanks for the response @ashmaroli

I can't get your suggestion to work, i'm afraid... I've tried following it thus:

feed:
  collections:
    authors:
      path: "/feed.xml"

But the generated feed.xml file still contains posts instead of items from the authors collection.

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[arielelkin]

any updates on this? @parkr

[parkr]

No updates! Want to submit a PR?

I think the right approach here is that we release a major version update that respects the config exactly rather than auto-injecting the posts collection even if other collections are configured.

[arielelkin]

I would like to submit a PR but I lack the required background in Ruby..

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[parkr]

@arielelkin It looks like the code will actually use a configured posts path, so put it elsewhere?

feed:
  collections:
    authors:
      path: "/feed.xml"
    posts:
      path: "/feed/posts.xml"

Try that and maybe /feed.xml will contain the authors feed?

[arielelkin]

@parkr Thank you for your suggestion!

With your code, /feed.xml now contains the authors feed, but a feed of all posts is still produced in /feed/posts.xml.

It makes things slightly tidier, but it doesn't address the original issue. It'd be nice to have the option to entirely suppress generation of the posts feed.

[ashmaroli]

but a feed of all posts is still produced in /feed/posts.xml.

@arielelkin Perhaps not an intuitive solution, but you have control over the "file" marked as feed for posts. It can be any existing file in your source dir. If you have, say a 404.html file at the root of your site to render custom Error 404! Not Found! page, point to that.

feed:
  collections:
    authors:
      path: "/feed.xml"
    posts:
      path: "404.html"

The feed generator will only generate a feed file if the given file doesn't exist at source directory.

[arielelkin]

@ashmaroli thanks for the workaround, it works fine!

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