Apologies if this is a dumb question: If RSS is enabled in “Edit Backlight Settings”, is the feed automatically created or do I have to create the feed outside of Backlight 3?
Is there anything that needs to be enabled for the feed to be created?
That seems to be the question I have regarding the RSS. There are two things to turn on in the edit settings and I’m not clear what each part does. I have both turned on but the only time it seems to feed into an RSS reader is when I add an album. If I add photos to an existing album the RSS does not seem to pick them up. Is there more info on it somewhere?
I did read the bubbles. So if I were to enable RSS, I should not expect to see any photos in the feed for a particular album until a new photo is added?
I presume there are no other settings for RSS other than the ones that are listed in “Settings”, correct?
Matthew - I thought I understood the info in the bubbles but it does not work as I anticipated. As I said, it did show a new album in the feed when I added that album to my site, but it does not seem to pick up any photos I add to any other existing albums. Does it only pick up new photos I add to the specific album that it already identified? I have both items checked as on in the settings.
We provide a feed. How any particular reader chooses to represent that feed is entirely the responsibility of the reader. In my experience, most readers will not backfill a feed with prior items. For example, if you subscribe to a feed on June 1, the reader will show you a new post on June 2, but will not display posts from May.
If you’d like to see exactly what’s in your feed, you can do that by visiting the feed URL directly in your browser.