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June 21, 2026

# What Is RSS Feed Generator? A Practical Guide to RSS Feed

RSS never fully went away — podcast platforms, some news aggregators, and countless internal tools still consume it directly, which makes a working feed genuinely useful distribution infrastructure, not a nostalgia feature.

RSS Feed Generator exists to solve one specific, recurring problem: RSS feed is easy to get wrong by hand, tedious to check manually across a whole site, and quick to fix once you can actually see it clearly. That's the gap RSS Feed Generator fills.

In practice, this usually comes up in one of two situations — you're setting things up correctly from the start on a new page or site, or you're auditing something that already exists and trying to find what's silently broken. Both are worth doing regularly, not just once.

A few things worth keeping in mind:
- Keep the feed's item count reasonable (recent 20-50 items) rather than dumping the entire site history into one feed file.
- Include a real, unique `description` per item rather than duplicating the full post body — most feed readers show it as a preview, not the whole article.
- Set `pubDate` accurately and keep it updated only when content is genuinely new — backdating or bulk-touching every item's date confuses subscriber ordering.

It's also worth knowing what commonly goes wrong here. Including full post HTML with broken relative image paths that don't resolve correctly once pulled into an external feed reader. And avoiding these is usually less about effort and more about knowing to check in the first place.

This connects to a few other things worth getting right at the same time — see Product URL / Slug Generator and WhatsApp Click-to-Chat Link Generator for the related pieces of the same technical foundation.

If you want to check this on your own site right now, RSS Feed Generator runs directly in your browser, free, with no account required.

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Everything in this guide runs directly in your browser — no signup, no install.

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