Please tame your RSS feed

[davorg]

Hi,

As you know, I added your RSS feed to Planet Perl yesterday. Today I woke up to find that there were some rather uninteresting entries at the top of the Planet Perl feed - all of which come from your site.

This is because your RSS feed is rather non-standard. Usually, an RSS feed will:

• Only contain blog posts
• Only contain the most recent entries (10 seems to be the standard number)

But yours contains 845 entries. Which seems to be an entry for every possible page on the site. There's even an entry for your 404 page :-)

<item>
<title>The Weekly Challenge - Perl &#x26; Raku</title>
<link>https://theweeklychallenge.org/404.html</link>
<description>The page you are looking for was moved, removed, renamed or might never existed.</description>
<pubDate>2022-07-04T08:16:15</pubDate>
</item>

Could you please make the following fixes to the feed:

• Limit it to only include blog posts (stuff under /blog, I think)
• Only include the most recent ten entries

I don't know anything about Hugo, so I'm not sure how to do this. But I'll have a little poke around and see if I can find a solution in Hugo's documentation.

[davorg]

I found another RSS feed at https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/index.xml which mostly solves the first problem.

[davorg]

And I think https://github.com/manwar/theweeklychallenge/pull/97 will fix the second problem