Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Programming Discussion : how many items I should put into rss file?

[feelexit]

I need to write RSS2.php file for my blog, let other ppl to subscribe the feed.

just a basic question.

how many items I should put there.

just the lastest 10 blogs posted or all the blogs. or its doesn't matter how many items to show, its up to the developer

I am wondering how other blog applications work. I download their source code, but have hard time to understand it.

[yugnats]

i think most feeds are set to 10

[horizon]

Depending on the kind of blogs you're publishing, I'd say that, typically speaking, you could set between 5-10 blogs per page to maintain a great loading levels between each pages. However, if your RSS content uses images, with the text you're publishing, I'd consider keeping the minimum value, since - without knowing how many times your blogs could be changed - it would require re-downloading some new images at the same time (also depending on the mount of users you might have everyday - which could increase bandwidth).