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This weekend, Jochen T. contacted me with an interesting question about Hugo and the theme I am using for this blog:

I don’t understand how I can create a “normal” feed, I have searched for help, but found nothing. My feed only contains the categories “micro”, “blog” or “page”, but I would like to have a feed with the individual posts in full text (like you).

Due to the fact that others might have the same question, I answer this in the public of course after prior request and approval by Jochen.

Well, the easy way is to check Hugos’ config.toml first. Under [params.rss] and due to the fact I’m bilingual, under [languages.en.params.rss] aswell, please check if includeContent = true is set.

If not sufficient, here is my /themes/kiss-em-master/layouts/_default/index.rss.xml file for copying and pasting. Looking into my git-repo, I can say that only the loop in .Site.Pages.ByDate.Reverse has been altered to reverse order alongside with an additionally if-clause:

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <channel>
    <title>{{ if eq .Title.Site.Title }}{{ .Site.Title }}{{ else }}{{ with .Title }}{{.}} on {{ end }}{{ .Site.Title }}{{ end }}</title>
     <link>{{ .Permalink }}</link>
     <description>Recent content {{ if ne .Title.Site.Title }}{{ with .Title }}in {{.}} {{ end }}{{ end }}on {{ .Site.Title }}</description>
    <language>{{ .Site.Language }}</language>
    <contact>{{ $.Site.Params.rss.authorEmail }}</contact>
     <copyright>{{ .Site.Params.Info.Copyright | safeHTML}}</copyright>
    {{ with .OutputFormats.Get "RSS" }}
        {{ printf "<atom:link href=%q rel=\"self\" type=%q />" .Permalink .MediaType | safeHTML }}
    {{ end }}
  {{ range .Site.Pages.ByDate.Reverse }}
    {{ if .Content }}
    <item>
      <title>{{ .Title }}</title>
      <link>{{ .Permalink }}</link>
      <pubDate>{{ .Date.Format "Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:04:05 -0700" | safeHTML }}</pubDate>
      <author>{{ $.Site.Params.rss.authorName }}</author>
      <guid>{{ .Permalink }}</guid>
      <description>{{ .Description | html }}</description>
      {{ if $.Site.Params.rss.includeContent }}
      <content>{{ .Content | html }}</content>
      {{ end }}
    </item>
    {{ end }}
  {{ end }}
  </channel>
</rss>

Hope this is helpful, Jochen.
Wish you and everybody a good start into the new week,

Tomas Jakobs