Extending RSS in Hugo

Get a copy of the default RSS template that ships with Hugo and put it in root/layouts dir.

Full Content

Make your subscribers happy by updating {{ .Summary | html }} to {{ .Content | html }}.

Add Tags

I prefer adding this over the category element because there maybe some older or less feature-rich RSS readers that do not fully support the latter.

1. Create an rss-tag.html partial

<p>Tags: 
{{ range $i, $e := .Params.tags -}}
  {{- if $i -}}, {{ end -}}
  <a href='{{ "/tags/" | relLangURL }}{{ . | urlize }}'>#{{ . }}</a>
{{- end -}}
</p>

2. Add partial to rss.xml

<description>
  {{ .Content | html }}
  {{ partial "rss-tag.html" . | html }}
</description>

Add Reply to Email

This redirects your subscribers to their email service with a dynamic subject: Reply to “Post Title”.

1. Create an rss-reply.html partial

<p style="font-size:1.3rem">
  <a href='mailto:hi@example.com?subject=Reply%20to%20"{{ .Title }}"'>Reply to this post via email</a>
</p>

2. Add partial to rss.xml.

<description>
  {{ .Content | html }}
  {{ partial "rss-reply.html" . | html }}
</description>

This is what it looks like