Creating feeds for your blog posts

Django has a built-in syndication feed framework that you can use to dynamically generate RSS or Atom feeds in a similar manner to creating sitemaps using the site's framework. A web feed is a data format (usually XML) that provides users with frequently updated content. Users will be able to subscribe to your feed using a feed aggregator, a software that is used to read feeds and get new content notifications.

Create a new file in your blog application directory and name it feeds.py. Add the following lines to it:

from django.contrib.syndication.views import Feed
from django.template.defaultfilters import truncatewords
from .models import Post

class LatestPostsFeed(Feed):
    title = 'My blog'
    link = '/blog/'
    description = 'New posts of my blog.'

    def items(self):
        return Post.published.all(...