If the site config.toml file sets generate_rss = true, then Zola will generate an rss.xml page for the site, which will live at base_url/rss.xml. To generate the rss.xml page, Zola will look for an rss.xml file in the templates directory or, if one does not exist, it will use the use the built-in rss template.

Only pages with a date will be available.

The RSS template gets three variables in addition to config:

• feed_url: the full url to that specific feed
• last_build_date: the date of the latest post
• pages: see page variables for a detailed description of what this contains