Jekyll Atom Feed

atom.xml

---
layout: nil
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <title type="text"><![CDATA[{{ site.name }}]]></title>
  {% if site.description %}
    <subtitle type="text"><![CDATA[{{ site.description }}]]></subtitle>
  {% endif %}
  <updated>{{ site.time | date_to_xmlschema }}</updated>
  <id>{{ site.url }}/</id>
  <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en" href="{{ site.url }}" />

  {% if site.feed %}
  <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="{{ site.url }}{{ site.feed }}" />
  {% endif %}
  <rights>Copyright (c) {{ site.time | date: "%Y" }} {{ site.author }}</rights>
  <generator uri="http://jekyllrb.com/" version="1.0.3">Jekyll</generator>

  {% for post in site.posts %}
    <entry>
      <title type="html"><![CDATA[{{ post.title }}]]></title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="{{ site.url }}{{ post.url }}" />
      <id>{{ site.url }}{{ post.id }}</id>
      <updated>{{ post.date | date_to_xmlschema }}</updated>
      <author>
        {% if post.author %}
          <name><![CDATA[{{ post.author }}]]></name>
        {% else %}
          <name><![CDATA[{{ site.author }}]]></name>
        {% endif %}
      </author>
      <content type="html">
        <![CDATA[{{ post.content }}]]>
      </content>
    </entry>
  {% endfor %}
</feed>

instructions.md

Place this file in the root directory of your Jekyll site. Name it something like atom.xml.

In _config.yml:

• A url key ex: url: http://smileykeith.com No trailing slash
• An author key ex: author: Keith Smiley

Optional:

• A feed key for the URL of the ATOM file ex: feed: /atom.xml
• A description key for the description in the ATOM feed
• A per-post author key for different authors per post