Can I exclude a section from an RSS feed?

82MHz · March 14, 2025, 1:18pm

I have a website with three different sections. In every section’s _index.xml I have set generate_feeds = true, which means I get the following rss feeds:

http://site/rss.xml <- contains all posts from all sections
http://site/section1/rss.xml <- contains posts from only section1
http://site/section2/rss.xml <- contains posts from only section2
http://site/section3/rss.xml <- contains posts from only section3

How can I exclude the posts from one of the sections from the main feed? I can’t seem to figure it out. If I filter out section1 from the rss.xml template, they also get filtered out in section1/rss.xml, which is not what I want.

Alternatively I would also be happy if I could have different RSS templates for the different sections so I can control what exactly ends up in each one. Is this possible?

dustinknopoff · March 14, 2025, 4:18pm

I don’t think there’s a built in way. But! You could override the built in template and add your own filtering

github.com/getzola/zola

components/templates/src/builtins/rss.xml

master

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0">
    <channel>
      <title>{{ config.title }}
        {%- if term %} - {{ term.name }}
        {%- elif section.title %} - {{ section.title }}
        {%- endif -%}
      </title>
      <link>
        {%- if section -%}
          {{ section.permalink | escape_xml | safe }}
        {%- else -%}
          {{ config.base_url | escape_xml | safe }}
        {%- endif -%}
      </link>
      <description>{{ config.description }}</description>
      <generator>Zola</generator>
      <language>{{ lang }}</language>
      <atom:link href="{{ feed_url | safe }}" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
      <lastBuildDate>{{ last_updated | date(format="%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z") }}</lastBuildDate>

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82MHz · March 14, 2025, 4:56pm

Thanks for the response! But I mentioned it in my original question, I have that template, but if I filter a section out, it gets filtered out in every feed because the template gets applied to every feed that is created.

Hence, part 2 of my question - can I have different templates for different feeds?

dustinknopoff · March 14, 2025, 7:37pm

Oh whoops! Sorry I don’t know about that

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