Feeds: ship full post content in RSS/Atom - #69
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RSS feeds shipped truncated summaries only. Pelican's default for RSS is summary-only (RSS_FEED_SUMMARY_ONLY defaults True), and publishconf.py never overrode it, so output/feeds/all.rss.xml carried 150-310 char truncated summaries per item and zero full content. Set RSS_FEED_SUMMARY_ONLY = False in publishconf.py so the RSS feed carries full post HTML in <description>. Note: Pelican does not emit <content:encoded>; it places full content in <description> for RSS, while Atom uses <content>.
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Problem
The RSS feed shipped summary-only content. Pelican's default for RSS is
summary-only (
RSS_FEED_SUMMARY_ONLYdefaults toTrue), andpublishconf.pynever overrode it. As a resultoutput/feeds/all.rss.xmlcarried short truncated summaries per item (150-310 chars) and zero full
post content, so feed readers only saw a teaser.
Fix
Set
RSS_FEED_SUMMARY_ONLY = Falseinpublishconf.py. Pelican thenplaces the full post HTML in each item's
<description>.Note on
<content:encoded>: Pelican does not emit acontent:encodedelement for RSS. Full content goes into
<description>for RSS (the Atomfeed uses
<content>). So the correct signal that the fix worked is the<description>growing from a truncated summary to full HTML, not thepresence of
content:encoded.Verification
Built with
pelican content -o output -s publishconf.py(Pelican 4.12.0)and compared per-item
<description>payloads:<description>length: 150-310 chars (before) -> 3,563-36,952chars (after), across all 21 items
Guards run locally, all pass:
scripts/check_wellknown_llms.py- 0 issuesscripts/check_em_dashes.py- passscripts/check_descriptions.py- passscripts/check_link_graph.py- 21 posts, 0 issuespython3 -m unittest discover tests- 27 tests OKDeploy builds with
publishconf.py(.github/workflows/deploy.yml), sothe fix reaches production.