The blog publishes machine-readable versions of itself. They hold only published posts whose publication time has come.
| Endpoint | Address | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| RSS 2.0 | /blog/feed/rss (or /blog/feed) |
The 20 latest posts: title, address, date, author, category and tags, and the excerpt with the featured image. |
| Atom 1.0 | /blog/feed/atom |
The 20 latest posts, with the same, the time of the last change, and the whole post. |
| XML sitemap | /blog/sitemap.xml |
The blog home, every post with its last change, and the category and tag pages. |
The feeds use absolute addresses throughout (links and images in the posts too), so feed readers and aggregators can use them directly. Their title is your site's title and the blog's, and their description the blog's Description.
Turning the feeds off
Untick RSS and Atom feeds under Blog > Settings. The feed addresses then answer 404 and the discovery link goes. The sitemap cannot be turned off: it lists only what the site already shows.
Discovery
Every public page carries <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"> pointing at the blog's RSS feed, so browsers and feed readers find it from anywhere on the site. The sidebar of the blog's pages links to both feeds.
Search engines
No sitemap plugin is installed with Omeka Classic, so the blog serves its own. It is not announced to search engines by itself: submit /blog/sitemap.xml in their webmaster tools, or name it in a robots.txt at the root of your site:
Sitemap: https://example.org/blog/sitemap.xml
Post pages also carry schema.org BlogPosting data as JSON-LD: the headline, description, text, publication and change dates, author (with their author page), publisher (your site), category, tags and featured image. The blog home carries a Blog with its latest posts.
Sharing
On the RefBytes themes built on the Theme Engine (Plinth, Vitrine, Confetti, Overprint), a post page names its own address as canonical, shares its excerpt (or the start of its text) as its description and is marked as an article, and its featured image becomes the image social networks show, unless the OG Images plugin draws a sharing card for the page (OG Images 1.0.1 has a Blog posts template). The blog home shares the blog's description, a category its own description, and an author page the author's bio. Search engines read the same description. This needs a theme built on Theme Engine 0.1.2 or later; earlier versions share the site's description.
Posts are also found by Omeka's site search once Blog Post is ticked under Settings > Search.