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Easier feeds for GitHub Pages

If you publish a blog using GitHub pages, it’s now easier for others to subscribe to updates. The Jekyll Feed plugin, now available to all GitHub Pages sites, can automatically…

If you publish a blog using GitHub pages, it’s now easier for others to subscribe to updates. The Jekyll Feed plugin, now available to all GitHub Pages sites, can automatically generate an Atom (RSS-like) feed of your most recent posts.

While it’s always been possible to generate feeds using hand-written XML, the Jekyll Feed plugin includes a battle-tested template that handles things like encoding issues and relative URLs, allowing you to concentrate on what matters: your content.

For more information, including installation instructions, see the Feeds for GitHub Pages help article.

Happy syndicating!

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Ben Balter

Ben Balter

@benbalter

Ben Balter is Chief of Staff for Security at GitHub, the world’s largest software development platform. Previously, as a Staff Technical Program manager for Enterprise and Compliance, Ben managed GitHub’s on-premises and SaaS enterprise offerings, and as the Senior Product Manager overseeing the platform’s Trust and Safety efforts, Ben shipped more than 500 features in support of community management, privacy, compliance, content moderation, product security, platform health, and open source workflows to ensure the GitHub community and platform remained safe, secure, and welcoming for all software developers. Before joining GitHub’s Product team, Ben served as GitHub’s Government Evangelist, leading the efforts to encourage more than 2,000 government organizations across 75 countries to adopt open source philosophies for code, data, and policy development.

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