Feeds, sitemap, and the subscribe page
The RSS feed, the sitemap, and the subscribe page your site makes for you, and where to find each one.
Your site makes a few pages on its own, whatever theme you use. The RSS feed lets readers follow you in a feed reader. The sitemap tells search engines what's on your site. The subscribe page is one address you can link to from anywhere to grow your list. You don't build any of them; they appear once your site is on.
Your addresses
| Page | Address | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| RSS feed | https://you.kolea.pro/feed.xml | Your 20 newest published posts, each in full |
| Sitemap | https://you.kolea.pro/sitemap.xml | Your front page, the writing archive, the about page if you have one, every public topic, and every published post with the date it last changed |
| Subscribe page | https://you.kolea.pro/subscribe | A signup form for your list |
If you move your site to a custom domain, these move with it.
Set up the subscribe page
The subscribe page, and the signup box your theme shows on the front page, post to one of your forms.
- Open Money > Forms and open the form you want to use.
- Open its settings and switch on Use for my site's subscribe box.
- Click Save settings.
Only one form can do this at a time. Signups from your site then go through that form.
Share the feed
Link to https://you.kolea.pro/feed.xml from wherever your readers are. Every theme puts a link to the feed in each page's header, so a feed reader finds it when someone pastes in your site's address.
Things to know
- With no form chosen, there is no signup box anywhere on your site, and the subscribe page says signups are closed.
- The feed and sitemap only hold published posts. Members-only and premium posts never put their words in the feed.
- Search results, and archive, topic, and author pages after the first, are kept out of search engines.
- The old https://you.kolea.pro/rss address forwards to the feed.
- While your site is off, none of these pages answer. Turn the site on first.