# Updating blog posts in a Jekyll- and RSS-friendly manner

**URL:** https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/updating-blog-posts-in-a-jekyll-and-rss-friendly-manner/3392
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [September 25, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/updating-blog-posts-in-a-jekyll-and-rss-friendly-manner/3392 "2019-09-25T23:38:16Z")
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### Author: ![gussmith23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@gussmith23](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/gussmith23)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/updating-blog-posts-in-a-jekyll-and-rss-friendly-manner/3392/1 "2019-09-25T23:38:17Z")

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Hi all. I am moving my website to Jekyll, and have some questions about the best ways to use Jekyll to achieve what I want.

Sometimes I write blog posts that are truly tied to a single day, and will likely not be updated in the future. However, I often write things that I intend to keep updating – for example, a list of my favorite podcaster’s best episodes. This seems weird to do as a blog post, as I know that it will be updated in the future! However, it’d be nice to rely on the existing blogging machinery.

Specifically, the behavior I would like to see is:

- These posts show up in my feed (on the site, and in the RSS)
- Updates to the post also show up on the feed (ideally, making it obvious that it was just updated, not posted brand-new)

Does anyone know what a Jekyll-like way to support these types of posts would be? Should I just make them blog posts? Perhaps I could use collections?

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### Author: ![mmistakes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/mmistakes/32/2169_2.png) [@mmistakes](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/mmistakes)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/updating-blog-posts-in-a-jekyll-and-rss-friendly-manner/3392/2 "2019-09-26T14:06:24Z")

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Date related documents I’d make `_posts`, everything else either pages or a collection.

For the feed you could iterate over `site.posts`, `site.pages`, and or `site.collection_name` to get everything into a single .xml feed, or create feeds for each.
