Introduction
RSS feeds make it easy to share your website’s content with readers or other platforms. Newsifier automatically creates several types of RSS feeds for you, so there’s no setup needed on your end. Here’s how you can find and use the RSS feeds available for your website.
Where to Find Your RSS Feeds
To access your website's RSS feeds, first find your sitemap by adding "/sitemap/" to the end of your website’s URL. For example, if your website is example.com, you’ll find the sitemap at example.com/sitemap/.
Once you have the sitemap, you can use the different RSS feed options listed below.
Types of RSS Feeds
Google News Feed: Found at
/sitemap/google-news.xml, this feed provides articles from the last two days.
Recent Articles Feed: Located at
/sitemap/news.xml, this feed lists all the articles from your website published in the last 28 days.
Latest 20 Articles Feed: Found at
/sitemap/news_full.xml, this feed shows the 20 most recent articles from the past 28 days.
It includes full article content, so readers or platforms consuming the feed will see the complete text of each article, rather than just an excerpt.
Full Content Feed: Available at
/sitemap/news-full-content.xml, this feed includes the latest 20 articles from the last 28 days, along with additional formatting such as HTML tags.
However, the standard sitemap protocol search engines use does not accommodate HTML tags within the URL entries. HTML tags are used to style and format content on a webpage, not within an XML sitemap. If you're looking to create a sitemap-like structure that includes styled HTML content for each article, this would not be a traditional sitemap and would not be recognized by search engines as such.
Popular Articles Feed: Found at
/sitemap/popular-articles.xml, this feed shows your most-viewed articles from the last 24 hours, sorted by the number of views.
You can define the number of articles in Settings > Layout > Amount of articles in lists and widgets > Articles are shown in popular news articles block.
Pages Feed: Located at
/sitemap/pages.xml, this feed includes up to 100 of your website’s most recent pages, such as your Contact or About pages.
Tag-Specific RSS Feeds
If you want to share articles based on specific tags, you can create a tag-specific RSS feed. By adding ?tag=[tag_name] to the end of either the /news.xml or /news_full.xml link. , it will return articles related to that tag. For example, to pull articles tagged "sports," you would use: example.com/sitemap/news.xml?tag=sports
Tip: that it only works with "news.xml" and "news_full.xml" RSS feeds.
Customizing RSS Feeds Based on Article Visibility
To further customize your RSS feed based on where articles are visible on different pages of your website, you can use the ?visible=PAGE parameter with your news_full.xml request. This allows you to filter articles that are visible on specific pages, such as "home", "author", "article", "tags", or "search".
For example, to get the latest 20 articles from the last 28 days that are visible on the homepage, use this URL structure:
https://example.com/sitemap/news_full.xml?visible=home
You can replace home in the parameter with other page types like author, article, tags, or search to filter the RSS feed accordingly. This RSS is related to the Managing Article Visibility feature.