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Help Desk > Tutorials > Personal and Group Web Sites > Movable Type |
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Every weblog generates a file that includes your most recent entries that your audience can use to automatically stay informed of new content as you post it. This file can take a variety of formats rss, atom, and rdf to name a few but what is important is that without any extra work on your part you can push to your audience the latest content of your site thus making it easier for them to stay informed.
Movable Type is configured to generate this feed as an RSS file but can generate a feed in a different format if necessary. It also includes the code on your pages that make it easy for readers to subscribe to your feed.
Please note: While not difficult to change the blog's feed format you need to feel comfortable editting html as you need to alter the Main Index template.
1. Start by going to the template menu of your weblog and click on 'Main Index' so that the template edit window opens.
2. The 'Edit Template' page opens
3. Next scroll down in the Main Index's code until you see the following code
<div class="module-syndicate module">
<div class="module-content">
<a href="<$MTBlogURL$>index.xml">Subscribe to this blog's feed</a><br />
[<a href="http://www.sixapart.com/about/feeds">What is this?</a>]
</div>
</div>
3. Change 'index.xml' in the third line to one of the following depending on the format you desire.
Format file atom atom.xml
RSD rsd.xml RSS 2.0 Index index.xml
4. Save the template and rebuild your site for the change to take effect. If you discover that you have botched the editting you just copy the default template code and paste it into your Main Index template.
