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Show only headers in Octopress RSS

I have a blog based on Octopress. It generates an RSS-feed, but that feed contains whole pages (posts) with images included.

How can I "shrink" it, so it would contain only headers of pages (posts)?

Octopress: 2.0
Jekyll: 2.0.3

Solution

  • In feed.xml, instead of using post.content, you can use post.excerpt.

    Two solutions :

    1 - Using octopress setup

    Add a <!-- more --> in your posts to mark the limit between post.excerpt and post.content. content still contains both.

    2 - Using Jekyll default

    Remove this line excerpt_separator: <!--more--> from your config file. As the default excerpt separator is "\n\n" (two new lines) excerpt will be created autoamtically.

    Alternative solution

    Use the truncate filter {{ post.content | truncate: 200 | expand_urls: site.url | cdata_escape }}

    You will find more information about excerpt in Jekyll documentation