Your RSS feed already knows what to post.

The steps

Do them in order. Nothing publishes until you approve a post, so there is no step here that can surprise you.

1. 1

   Connect your RSS or Atom feed

   Open Feeds and paste your feed address — usually yourdomain.com/feed or /rss. MagpieFeed reads it live and detects it as a content feed rather than a product feed, which changes what it offers you later. It reads real RSS: enclosure and media images for the hero, content:encoded bodies for the excerpt, dc:creator for the byline, and Atom entries as well as RSS items.

   Tip. If your platform publishes a truncated feed, set it to full text. The excerpt on the card is only as good as what the feed hands over.

2. 2

   Connect a channel — or stay in Studio Mode

   Channels is where publishing is decided. MagpieFeed can publish to a Facebook Page, an Instagram Business account, X, Telegram and Discord. Connect one and the card's health pill tells you whether the token is valid and when it expires. Connect nothing and you are in Studio Mode: the render and the caption still arrive, and you post them by hand — which, for a one-person blog, is often the honest workflow anyway.

   Tip. A channel you connect is not a channel that posts. Nothing leaves the queue until an automation is pointed at it and a post is approved.

3. 3

   Set your masthead

   In Templates, choose an Article layout. It is built for headlines: the lead image on top, the headline underneath, no price, no discount badge, no shop furniture. Set your logo, two colours, a typeface and a tone of voice. If an article has no hero image — and plenty do not — the Article template falls back to a designed block of your brand colour rather than leaving a hole.

   Tip. Pick the tone that sounds like you, not the one that sounds like marketing. The caption arrives as a draft either way and you can rewrite it.

4. 4

   Build two automations

   First rule: trigger a new Item appears, schedule mode drip at one or two times that suit your readers, at most three a day and one an hour. That is every new article, posted the day it lands. Second rule: trigger it is time for a daily pick — the evergreen trigger — at one post a day from the archive. Give the evergreen rule a long hold, say sixty days, so the same essay does not come round every fortnight.

   Tip. Keep the two rules separate rather than raising one rule's cap. A quiet writing week should change how much the archive posts, not how much the new one does.

5. 5

   Work the queue

   Both rules start on I approve each post. The queue shows each card with its rendered image, its drafted caption and its scheduled time. Fix a headline that got truncated, rewrite a caption that reads like a robot, regenerate it if you would rather start again, then approve. Skip anything the feed picked up that is not really an article — a page, a tag index, a stub.

   Tip. In Studio Mode each card has Share, Copy caption, Download, Posted and Skip. Marking a card Posted is what keeps the dedupe window and the counters honest, so use it rather than just closing the tab.

6. 6

   Go live

   The evergreen rule is the safe one to automate first: you have already read every article in your own archive. Switch it to Publish on schedule and leave the new-post rule on review for as long as you like — a fresh article is the one where a wrong caption costs you something.

   Tip. Check the Automations list once a month. Each row shows how many posts it has made and when it last ran, which is the quickest way to notice a feed that quietly stopped.