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# Create custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost, the easy way
- URL: https://www.autodidacts.io/create-custom-filtered-rss-feeds-with-ghost-cms-routes-channels/
- Published: 2026-01-08T00:09:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-08T00:09:22.000Z
- Description: Create custom feeds, on custom routes, without editing theme files
- Author: Curiositry
- Tags: 100DaysToOffload, RSS, Ghost, Tutorial
****Note:** this post is part of [#100DaysToOffload](https://100daystooffload.com/?ref=autodidacts.io), a challenge to publish 100 posts in 365 days. These posts are generally shorter and less polished than our normal posts; expect typos and unfiltered thoughts! [View more posts in this series.](https://www.autodidacts.io/tag/100daystooffload/)
When [I started 100 days to offload](https://www.autodidacts.io/100daystooffload/), and mentioned that readers could [filter out posts by tag in their feed reader](https://www.autodidacts.io/filter-rss-feeds-by-tag/), an RSS subscriber wrote in suggesting that I create custom feeds instead. That way, readers could keep the longform posts in their [read-every-post feed](https://bojidar-bg.dev/blog/2025-10-26-sorting-feeds/?ref=autodidacts.io), while relegating the firehose RSS feed to a lower-priority section of their inbox.
I have now done this. Here is the feed for everything *other* than #100DaysToOffload posts:
(I may not maintain this route after I finish the challenge, so you’ll want to switch back to (the everything feed) at that point.)
is everything.
is *just* #100DaysToOffload posts.
---
**First, I did it the hard way.** After reading [on the forum](https://forum.ghost.org/t/configuring-custom-rss-feeds-when-using-a-custom-page/44460?ref=autodidacts.io) and [the](https://ghost.org/tutorials/custom-rss-feed/?ref=autodidacts.io) [docs](https://ghost.org/integrations/custom-rss/?ref=autodidacts.io), I used `routes.yaml` and a custom `rss.hbs` in the root directory of my theme.
I added the following to `routes.yaml`:
```yaml
routes:
/filter-100daystooffload/rss/:
template: rss
content_type: text/xml
```
And added an `rss.hbs` template with the following contents:
```xml
<![CDATA[ {{@site.title}} ]]>
{{@site.url}}
{{@site.url}}/favicon.png{{@site.title}}
{{@site.url}}
{{date format="ddd, DD MMM YYYY HH:mm:ss ZZ"}}60
{{#get "posts" limit="100" filter="tags:-100daystooffload" include="authors,tags"}}
{{#foreach posts}}
<![CDATA[ {{title}} ]]>
{{url absolute="true"}}
{{id}}{{date format="ddd, DD MMM YYYY HH:mm:ss ZZ"}}
{{/foreach}}
{{/get}}
```
The only line I had to change, depending on what we want to filter out, was this:
```
{{#get "posts" limit="100" filter="tags:-100daystooffload" include="authors,tags"}}
```
(Note: `limit=”all”` is unfortunately depreciated. But feed readers hit /rss endpoints frequently, and lowering the limit reduces server load, so it’s not a huge deal.)
Note, also, that the default RSS feeds are generated with code: there’s no `rss.hbs` in Ghost core that I could copy. This version has a few small differences from the default RSS template, but works fine.
---
**I didn’t like this approach,** for several reasons. Mainly, the filter is hardcoded, so the template can’t be re-used for multiple custom feeds. And if Ghost updates the default template when a new version of the RSS spec comes out in 2200 AD, this will still be RSS 2.0\. It feels *janky*.
I tried using a collection, but that didn’t work. But, lo! [Channels have RSS feeds by default](https://docs.ghost.org/themes/routing?ref=autodidacts.io#filtering-collections:~:text=These%20are,feed), and can be filtered!
In the end, all that was needed was the following in my `routes.yaml`:
```yaml
routes:
/filter-100daystooffload/:
controller: channel
filter: tag:-[100daystooffload]
```
And as a bonus (assuming you want it), there’s a homepage view as well as the RSS feed.
Along the way, before hitting on this 4-lines-of-text solution, I managed to create the world’s *least* valid `text/xml` RSS feed — the “everything everywhere all at once” edition — with every piece of custom CSS and JS from every post applied at once, including typesetting the whole thing in Comic Sans. It was glorious.
