01 / READ
A calmer reading habit.
Understand feed readers, subscriptions, and portable reading lists. Choose your sources and make room for the ideas that matter.
Find your reader workflowRSS, thoughtfully connectedGood feeds.
Good feeds.
Better
connections.
Publish with purpose. Follow what matters. Build on the open web. Your practical guide to RSS, Atom, and everything a good feed can become.
For curious readers, independent publishers, and developers.
LESS NOISE.
MORE SIGNAL.
MORE SIGNAL.
Your next good read.Pro RSS Lab
PublishingBuild a website feed
Feed foundationsRSS vs Atom
AI workflowsAI summaries with sources
prorss.com/rss.xmlRSS 2.0 ↗
OPEN FORMATS. REAL POSSIBILITIES.
RSS / ATOMWEBSITES / PODCASTSAPIs / AI WORKFLOWS
01 / Find your starting point
What will you
connect today?
Read the way you want. Publish on your terms. Give your next project a dependable source of updates.
02 / PUBLISH
Give your content a home.
Turn your website, articles, or podcast into a well-formed feed. Work through identifiers, metadata, discovery, and publishing checks.
Plan your website feed03 / BUILD
Make updates useful.
Bring structured content into your own applications. Explore PHP parsing, feed APIs, caching, and AI workflows that preserve the source.
Open the developer guides02 / Publish a little more openly
One story.
More ways to find it.
A feed carries updates to subscribers. A sitemap helps describe your site’s URLs. Structured data explains the content on a page. Give each format a clear job and keep them anchored to the same published story.
A publisher’s field guide
Three formats. Three clear jobs.
RSS
/rss.xmlDistribute a stream of published items with stable links, titles, and dates.
Sitemap
/sitemap.xmlList the canonical public pages you want search engines to discover.
JSON-LD
in your HTMLDescribe an article and its visible context with structured metadata.
Keep titles, canonical URLs, and publication dates consistent across all three.
A thoughtful workflow
Keep the source
in the story.
1
Collect the feed item.
Preserve the title, canonical URL, author, and publication date.
2
Shape a focused task.
Trim irrelevant markup and ask a specific question of the available text.
3
Review and attribute.
Check the summary against the item and carry its source link forward.
03 / A better starting point for AI
Open feeds.
Thoughtful AI.
RSS gives your workflow a repeatable content boundary. Explore summaries, retrieval, token budgets, and prompts built around identifiable sources and deliberate review.
04 / Ideas worth subscribing to
Fresh thinking.
From Pro RSS Lab.
Build a website RSS feed: from article metadata to valid XML
Create a maintainable RSS publishing workflow with stable identifiers, full article content, deliberate dates, and repeatable validation.
Read the guide : Build a website feed
WordPress RSS: understand the built-in feed before adding a plugin
Inspect WordPress's native feeds, tune reading settings, and identify the specific requirements that justify custom feed functionality.
Read the guide : WordPress RSS essentials
AI feed summaries: keep the source attached to every claim
Build an AI feed-summary workflow that preserves source evidence, checks claims, handles excerpts, and supports corrections.
Read the guide : AI summaries with sources05 / Follow your curiosity
A whole world
of connected content.
43 focused guides, organized around what you want to read, publish, build, or understand next.
Publish and distribute
Build and integrate
A few useful answers
Start curious.
Leave connected.
What is ProRSS.com?
ProRSS.com is an independent learning resource for RSS, Atom, publishing, and feed-based workflows. Browse the topic guides and Pro RSS Lab for explanations, checklists, and implementation ideas. Start with the RSS fundamentals guide.
Do I need an account to read these guides?
All guides and articles are openly readable. You can follow our RSS feed in a reader of your choice, with no ProRSS.com signup.
How are RSS and Atom different?
Both formats describe feeds of entries. They differ in their XML vocabulary and in how they handle identifiers, dates, authors, and content. Our RSS vs Atom guide explains the decisions that matter when publishing or parsing them.
Can I use RSS with WordPress or a podcast?
Yes. The guides cover WordPress feed behavior and podcast publishing requirements, including the checks that differ from a typical article feed.
Does a feed replace my sitemap?
A feed and a sitemap serve different purposes. A feed centers on published items and subscription updates; a sitemap lists canonical site URLs. The sitemap guide explains how to maintain both consistently.
How do the AI and vendor guides fit in?
They explain ways to use feed content in your own tools, from prompt preparation to source checking. ProRSS.com is independent of the vendors discussed. Read the editorial approach for context.
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