Title: RSS vs RSS2 vs Atom Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # RSS vs RSS2 vs Atom * [Xander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xander/) * (@xander) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-vs-rss2-vs-atom/) * Is there any advantage to pushing one format over another? Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * Thread Starter [Xander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xander/) * (@xander) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-vs-rss2-vs-atom/#post-459602) * Any thoughts on this one? * [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/) * (@whooami) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-vs-rss2-vs-atom/#post-459603) * none, and why would you? let the reader decide. It ought not make any difference to you what someone uses to read your blog, right? As long as it’s read? * Thread Starter [Xander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xander/) * (@xander) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-vs-rss2-vs-atom/#post-459604) * Take this simple case: most people coming to my site are going to have no idea what the hell any of these formats are, what syndication is, and what to do with it all. It seems much less confusing if one were to simply focus on one, present it clearly in the pertinent areas, and leave the rest in some corner for people who know what they’re doing. * [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * (@handysolo) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-vs-rss2-vs-atom/#post-459605) * A lot of themes will offer the rss2 feed via a button (sidebar or footer) but offer all 3 between the tags. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘RSS vs RSS2 vs Atom’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [atom](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/atom/) * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/) * Last activity: [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-vs-rss2-vs-atom/#post-459605) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics