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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-31 at 15:36

My Zola site now has atom.xml and rss.xml.

I copied the index.html from my theme into my main Zola directory's templates file, then made the changes that allowed the RSS feeds to build.

[#]zola #ssg #blogging

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-31 at 15:37

Here are the changes in the index.html file I copied from the theme into my templates directory:

Before:

{% if config.generate_feed %}

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Feed" href="{{ get_url(path=config.feed_filename, trailing_slash=false) }}">

{% endif %}

After:

{% if config.generate_feeds %}

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Feed" href="{{ get_url(path='atom.xml') | safe }}"

/>

{% endif %}

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-31 at 15:39

I will work on getting references to both atom.xml and rss.xml into index.html, but I'll have to figure out how to code an if statement that looks into an array.

But for now the RSS is flowing, and the site is building.

It's one of the nice features of Zola. If there's a template in your theme that you want to modify, you just move it from the theme's templates directory to your main Zola directory's templates directory. Then you can modify it without touching the theme.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-31 at 15:45

I copied /zola/themes/zola-hook/templates/index.html (and also page.html) into /zola/templates, and I'm editing the files in the latter.

And if I want to either refer to the original index.html and page.html — or copy them over again — I can.

Do any current Zola themes dynamically create index.html with RSS code based on the choices in config.toml? I think I can figure it out, just not today.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-31 at 15:49

I forgot to write that this is what I have in config.toml for RSS. It's standard, right out of the docs:

generate_feeds = true

feed_filenames = ["atom.xml", "rss.xml"]

feed_limit = 100

The Zola docs' Configuration section shows what it should look like if you choose one of the feed options but not both, so this post isn't a complete waste.

https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/configuration/

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-01 at 19:35

I am closer to figuring out the Tera templates in Zola. This documentation will get me there https://keats.github.io/tera/docs/

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-01 at 20:01

I always put a limit on the number of items in the RSS feed because I used to run a site with a lot of very large entries, and it was full-text RSS. It would build fine on my laptop, but when I automated it to build on shared hosting, it would run out of memory every time trying to build a single-page RSS with hundreds of text-packed entries.

Setting the RSS limit to 10 fixed it.

Luckily both Hugo and Zola have a configuration option for this.

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Written by Štěpán on 2025-02-03 at 18:42

@passthejoe this looks like what you're looking for: https://codeberg.org/daudix/duckquill/src/commit/4f8e8786fad9b9ce64d548d975189b8d7e36c05a/templates/partials/head.html#L23-L33

{%- if config.generate_feeds and config.feed_filenames %}
		{% for feed in config.feed_filenames %}
			{% if feed == "atom.xml" %}
				
			{% elif feed == "rss.xml" %}
				
			{% else %}
				
			{% endif %}
		{% endfor %}
    {% endif %}

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-04 at 05:28

@stepan That is is, exactly. Thanks!

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-04 at 06:28

@stepan Actually, that's about 80% of the way there. I can get the last bit, no problem

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-04 at 18:13

@stepan This is what I ended up with. You can have both rss.xml and atom.xml, either one of those, or none in the area ... and if your config.toml says to build a feed but doesn't specify which one, you get a line pointing to the atom feed, which is what Zola builds in that situation:

https://codeberg.org/passthejoe/zola_code/src/branch/main/feed_fix.html

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Written by Esparta :ruby: on 2025-01-31 at 16:33

@passthejoe so, do you like Zola?

For the last 8 years I've been just OK with #Hugo, but the fact that's a #GoLang app that depends on some measure of how/when Google want to support their programming language makes me very uncomfortable - same with situation than #restic, which I love profoundly.

I want to be as far from what Google if I possible, and Zola might be yet another step in the way out of that dependency of go.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-31 at 18:32

@esparta So far I'm enjoying the process of figuring it out.

I'm also a Hugo user. At this point I'm not saying that Zola is better than Hugo. I don't think I know either system well enough to definitively rank them.

Both build a site really quickly, and both are extremely flexible and extensible.

Hugo for sure has more features, more users, more developers, more releases, and more themes.

But sometimes less is OK. Simple can be better.

I'm still in the kicking-the-tires phase.

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-01-31 at 18:35

@esparta The things I'm looking at right now:

• How easy is it to get help (from documentation, tutorials and other users)?

• How often will development break things?

• How hackable is it?

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Written by Esparta :ruby: on 2025-01-31 at 22:12

@passthejoe thanks Steven for all the insights. I'm not very hardcore user of Hugo, usually take stock and a very old template so I should be fine.

I recall starting with Hugo when they have so few user base and nothing major came along, so I'm hoping would be the se with Zola if I jump boats.

For starters I'll be trying to migrate my website this weekend and see what's going on.

Thanks again!

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Written by Steven Rosenberg on 2025-02-01 at 00:01

@esparta The hardest part for me is always finding a template that works for what I want to do.

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