diff --git a/.eleventy.js b/.eleventy.js
index a09f7569..9827c096 100644
--- a/.eleventy.js
+++ b/.eleventy.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ const pluginUnfurl = require('eleventy-plugin-unfurl')
 const pluginFilesMinifier = require('@sherby/eleventy-plugin-files-minifier')
 const schema = require('@quasibit/eleventy-plugin-schema')
 const { eleventyImagePlugin } = require('@11ty/eleventy-img')
+const pluginRss = require('@11ty/eleventy-plugin-rss')
 const Image = require('@11ty/eleventy-img')
 const embedYouTube = require('eleventy-plugin-youtube-embed')
 const markdownIt = require('markdown-it')
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ const markdownItFootnote = require('markdown-it-footnote')
 const filters = require('./config/filters.js')
 const dateFilters = require('./config/dateFilters.js')
 const mediaFilters = require('./config/mediaFilters.js')
+const feedFilters = require('./config/feedFilters.js')
 const CleanCSS = require('clean-css')
 const now = String(Date.now())
 const { execSync } = require('child_process')
@@ -108,9 +110,18 @@ module.exports = function (eleventyConfig) {
     eleventyConfig.addLiquidFilter(filterName, mediaFilters[filterName])
   })
 
+  // feed filters
+  Object.keys(feedFilters).forEach((filterName) => {
+    eleventyConfig.addLiquidFilter(filterName, feedFilters[filterName])
+  })
+
   // css filters
   eleventyConfig.addFilter('cssmin', (code) => new CleanCSS({}).minify(code).styles)
 
+  // rss filters
+  eleventyConfig.addLiquidFilter('dateToRfc822', pluginRss.dateToRfc822)
+  eleventyConfig.addLiquidFilter('absoluteUrl', pluginRss.absoluteUrl)
+
   // image shortcode
   eleventyConfig.addShortcode('image', async function (src, alt, css, sizes, loading) {
     let metadata = await Image(src, {
diff --git a/config/dateFilters.js b/config/dateFilters.js
index 172a628f..ba4c44d0 100644
--- a/config/dateFilters.js
+++ b/config/dateFilters.js
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ module.exports = {
   readableDate: (date) => {
     return DateTime.fromISO(date).toFormat('LLLL d, yyyy')
   },
-  dateForFeed: (date) => {
-    return new Date(date).toISOString()
-  },
   toDateTime: (date) => {
     const formatted = DateTime.fromISO(date)
 
@@ -40,8 +37,8 @@ module.exports = {
 
     return [month, day, year].join('.')
   },
-  rssLastUpdatedDate: (collection) => {
-    if (!collection || !collection.length) return ''
-    return collection[0]['publishedAt']
+  stringToDate: (string) => {
+    if (!string) return
+    return new Date(string)
   },
 }
diff --git a/config/feedFilters.js b/config/feedFilters.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..662ad076
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/feedFilters.js
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+const { URL } = require('url')
+const BASE_URL = 'https://coryd.dev'
+
+module.exports = {
+  normalizeEntries: (entries) => {
+    return entries.map((entry) => {
+      const dateKey = Object.keys(entry).find((key) => key.includes('date'))
+      const date = new Date(entry[dateKey])
+      let excerpt = ''
+
+      // set the entry excerpt
+      if (entry.data?.post_excerpt) excerpt = entry.data.post_excerpt
+      if (entry.description) excerpt = entry.description
+
+      // if there's a valid entry return a normalized object
+      if (entry) {
+        return {
+          title: entry.data?.title || entry.title,
+          url: entry.url.includes('http') ? entry.url : new URL(entry.url, BASE_URL).toString(),
+          date,
+          excerpt,
+        }
+      }
+    })
+  },
+}
diff --git a/config/filters.js b/config/filters.js
index 3961a930..ed558cb1 100644
--- a/config/filters.js
+++ b/config/filters.js
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 const marked = require('marked')
 const sanitizeHTML = require('sanitize-html')
+
 const utmPattern = /[?&](utm_[^&=]+=[^&#]*)/gi
+const BASE_URL = 'https://coryd.dev'
 
 module.exports = {
   trim: (string, limit) => {
@@ -23,30 +25,9 @@ module.exports = {
     if (!string) return
     return string.replace(utmPattern, '')
   },
-  normalizeEntries: (entries) => {
-    return entries.map((entry) => {
-      const dateKey = Object.keys(entry).find((key) => key.includes('date'))
-      const date = entry[dateKey]
-      let excerpt = ''
-
-      // set the entry excerpt
-      if (entry.data?.post_excerpt) excerpt = entry.data.post_excerpt
-      if (entry.description) excerpt = entry.description
-
-      // if there's a valid entry return a normalized object
-      if (entry) {
-        return {
-          title: entry.data?.title || entry.title,
-          url: entry.url.includes('http') ? entry.url : `https://coryd.dev${entry.url}`,
-          date,
-          excerpt,
-        }
-      }
-    })
-  },
   getPostImage: (image) => {
     if (image && image !== '') return image
-    return 'https://coryd.dev/assets/img/social-card.jpg'
+    return `${BASE_URL}/assets/img/social-card.jpg`
   },
   getPopularPosts: (posts, analytics) => {
     return posts
@@ -74,7 +55,7 @@ module.exports = {
 
     const filtered =
       webmentions
-        .filter((entry) => entry['wm-target'].replace(utmPattern, '') === `https://coryd.dev${url}`)
+        .filter((entry) => entry['wm-target'].replace(utmPattern, '') === `${BASE_URL}${url}`)
         .filter((entry) => allowedTypes.includes(entry['wm-property'])) || []
 
     filtered.forEach((m) => {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 99d2ba3d..a77ec726 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
     "@11ty/eleventy-activity-feed": "^1.0.9",
     "@11ty/eleventy-fetch": "^4.0.0",
     "@11ty/eleventy-img": "^3.1.0",
+    "@11ty/eleventy-plugin-rss": "^1.2.0",
     "@11ty/eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight": "^5.0.0",
     "@catppuccin/tailwindcss": "^0.1.6",
     "@commitlint/cli": "^17.7.1",
diff --git a/src/_includes/partials/feeds/content.liquid b/src/_includes/partials/feeds/content.liquid
index fd53660d..2419137f 100644
--- a/src/_includes/partials/feeds/content.liquid
+++ b/src/_includes/partials/feeds/content.liquid
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
   {% assign entries = data | normalizeEntries %}
   <title>{{ title }}</title>
-  <link href="{{ site.url }}{{ permalink }}" rel="self" />
+  <link href="{{ permalink | absoluteUrl: site.url }}" rel="self" />
   <link href="{{ site.url }}" />
   <link rel="hub" href="https://pubsubhubbub.superfeedr.com/" />
-  <updated>{{ updated | date: "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S-08:00" }}</updated>
+  <updated>{{ updated | stringToDate | dateToRfc822 }}</updated>
   <id>{{ site.url }}</id>
   <author>
     <name>{{ site.name }}</name>
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
       <updated>{{ entry.date | date: "%m.%d.%Y" }}</updated>
       <id>{{ entry.url | stripUtm | encodeAmp }}</id>
       <content type="html">
+        {{ entry.excerpt | escape }}
       </content>
     </entry>
   {%- endfor %}
diff --git a/src/_includes/partials/feeds/json.liquid b/src/_includes/partials/feeds/json.liquid
index 8a95f245..59bb1792 100644
--- a/src/_includes/partials/feeds/json.liquid
+++ b/src/_includes/partials/feeds/json.liquid
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{% assign entries = data | normalizeEntries %}
+{%- assign entries = data | normalizeEntries -%}
 {
   "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1",
   "title": "{{ title }}",
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     "title": "{{ entry.title | escape }}",
     "url": "{{ entry.url }}",
     "content_text": "{{ entry.title }} {{ entry.url }}",
-    "date_published": "{{ entry.date | date: "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S-08:00" }}"
+    "date_published": "{{ entry.date | stringToDate | dateToRfc822 }}"
     }{% if not forloop.last %},{% endif %}
   {%- endfor %}
   ]