Bjarne Verschorre

Introduction

I use Hugo^↗ to build this website, and I use the built-in RSS feed to generate the feed automatically. It create everything I need but it’s not perfect, I want the feed to have the full content of the post instead of just the summary. I also want to have an image displayed with my feeds description.

Creating the feed template

I created a new file in the layouts/_default/ folder called section.rss.xml since this feed is only for my blog.

Displaying the full content

In that file I changed the following code:

<description>{{ .Summary | html }}</description>

to

<description>{{ .Content | html }}</description>

This will make the feed display the full content of the post instead of just the summary.

Adding an image

Right under the description tag I added the following code:

<image>
    <url>http://bjarne.verschorre.be/favicon.ico</url>
    <title>bjarne.verschorre.be</title>
    <link>https://bjarne.verschorre.be</link>
</image>

This will add an image to the feed.

Conclusion

Small improvement, but I like it. Wish Hugo had a setting for this.