====== How to share your entries via news feed ======
News feeds are great for blog visitors who want to be informed about new blog entries. FlatPress automatically provides two types of news feed: RSS and Atom. As examples, see the flatpress.org feeds in action:
  * https://www.flatpress.org/feed/rss2/
  * https://www.flatpress.org/feed/atom/

(There is a lot of feed reader software out there. For example, the free desktop mail client [[https://www.thunderbird.net/|Thunderbird]] is able to display RSS feed contents; Android users may know [[https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/|Feeder]].)

===== Sharing the news feed =====
It is important for your visitors to know there is a news feed they can subscribe to. This may be done in different ways:

==== Creating the feed link manually ====
Add a link to your blog's feed anywhere to your theme's template files. The feed links are straightforward! With the PrettyURLs plugin enabled, it's just:
  * RSS: https://yoursite.com/feed/rss2/
  * Atom: https://yoursite.com/feed/atom/
Without PrettyURLs, use:
  * RSS: https://yoursite.com/rss.php
  * RSS: https://yoursite.com/?x=feed:rss2
  * Atom: https://yoursite.com/?x=feed:atom

Comments of an entry with PrettyURLs
  * RSS: https://yoursite.com/yyyy/mm/dd/entry-title/comments/feed/rss2/
  * Atom: https://yoursite.com/yyyy/mm/dd/entry-title/comments/feed/atom/

Most visitors will recognize a feed link that is decorated with the commonly known feed icon, such as [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Feed-icon.svg|this example]].

Help visitors to your blog to use feeds and their benefits by adding a link to [[doc:plugins:feed#about_feeds|this article]], for example.

==== Using the convenient RSS feed plugin ====
An easy way to have your visitors subscribing to your blog's RSS/ Atom feed is the [[doc:plugins:feed|RSS and Atom feed widget]] plugin. It provides a widget with a "Subscribe" button - just add the widget e.g. to your sidebar!