2024-12-04

I fixed my site's rss.xml

Warning: boring site configuration ahead!

After a bit of wrangling in Hugo, I found the issue where only a truncated bit of content was showing up in people’s feed readers, instead of the full content:

Copying the contents of this default RSS template from the Hugo repo to my theme’s templates/_default/ directory, I edited a few lines:

First, I had to set the language parameters of my site’s config.toml, according to this link

Additionally, I changed (thanks to this source) line 55 to:

<description>{{ printf "<![CDATA[%s]]>" .Content | safeHTML }}</description>

… so now everything should render correctly. Right? Nothing ever goes wrong the first time.