Configure number of entries? about jekyll-feed

[joshgoebel]

In the hopes that it helps someone (it's easy to do this without a plugin at all):

http://runningblind.com/2018/12/22/jekyll-jekyll-feed-you-don-t-need-it/

That's the route I ended up going. And then tuning the number is just changing the number in your own template.

[benbalter]

@julien51 can you explain your use case and reasoning a bit more?

[julien51]

Well, for high frequency feeds, 10 entries might be a little short, because the polling interval may be a bit longer than the time the 10 entries are "in the feed". A marge window, like 20 or more entries would be helpful.

10 is a good default though, just adding a setting to increase this would be nice!

[benbalter]

Have you run into an issue with a site updating more frequently than the polling rate (or is this a hypothetical)? Would a default of 20 solve that? 15?

[julien51]

Yes, I did run into such an issue (not with this generator though). The feed updated roughly every 10 minutes and it was not rare to see pollers fetch the feed once every 2 or 3 hours, resulting in missing updates. I think 10 is a better default than 20 or 15, so don't change the default... make this configurable for the few people (like me) for who this could be a problem! Thanks,

[lancecarlson]

Perhaps this would be even more useful if you could override the feed.xml template completely? Then you could stick the feed.xml config at the root, point to that new path and completely customize the RSS feed the way you want if you want to.

BTW, I ran into this exact same issue. Wanted to export all of my blog posts to wordpress so the limit is annoying.

[lancecarlson]

Actually, after looking again.. this looks like this works already? If I have a feed.xml in my root of my project, it loads that instead?

[parkr]

If I have a feed.xml in my root of my project, it loads that instead?

I believe this is the case, yes. 👍

[pathawks]

Just spitballing here: What if we included the most recent 10 posts, and all posts published in the past 48 hours? Would this solve the problem of feed readers missing posts because of infrequent polling?

[benbalter]

@pathawks I like that idea. Not sure if it's possible in liquid or crazy complicated, but how about 10 posts OR everything in the past 24 hours, whichever is more?

[pathawks]

@benbalter I will take a look tonight and see what is possible.

[pathawks]

What if we included the most recent 10 posts, and all posts published in the past 48 hours?

This seems to not be currently possible. jekyll/jekyll#4860

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