 create an rss feed of user posts in this example you will create a feed display to show nodes by individual users dynamically selected through the url you will become familiar with the views 2 interface as well as learn how to use an argument to pull in a user name and use it in a dynamically created path a feed is a data format that places your site s content into a file that can be read and displayed by news reader programs when visiting a site you may notice a small rss transmission icon  whereby clicking on it you can subscribe to the site s most recent content this makes it easier for your visitors to keep up to date with your website you can also use this format to aggregate information into other sites for more information please watch a video from common craft about rss in plain english  note drupal automatically creates a feed for your website but you may want to create feeds with specific information in this case a list per user creating a new view go to add new view  give it the name userfeed description a feed of user nodes tag users type node and click next about the interface you have been brought to the views user interface as you start you are editing the default options for the view in the 1st column on the left you can see the pulldown menu offers feed for example to select settings specific only to rss views in the remaining columns you will be able to add or change options by clicking on links or icons these options appear below this main area most likely you will need to scroll to see the options appear as you make changes these options will appear in bold until you save your view change default display under basic settings in the 2nd column click row style fields a menu loads below  defaults how should each row in this view be styled  check the node option and click update  this loads another options menu  defaults row style options click update  create the rss view in the 1st column select feed in the dropdown menu and click add display  under basic settings in the 2nd column click row style missing style plugin note options appear below the views interface you may need to scroll to see feed how should each row in this view be styled tick node  then update this loads the next options menu display type  select use default rss settings click update  set the path for accessing your feed in the 2nd column under feed settings  click path none in options below feed the menu path or url of this view enter in the path with an argument feeds rssxml click update set up your arguments to say which user s nodes to display to the right of arguments  click the sign to add and argument in the feed add arguments menu that loads below select user in the pulldown menu check the box user name  click add scroll down to options to find case in path  select lower case check the box transform spaces to dashes in url click update default display sort to show most recent at top of feed scroll up to sort criteria in the right most column and click the icon in the groups dropdown menu below select node then check node post date  and click add  select descending sort order  click update  set filters to hide unpublished entries click the icon next to filters  in the options below select node under groups dropdown menu choose the node published filter and click add  check the box published  click update default display test click save under live preview type in the name of a user in lowercase replacing spaces with dashes click preview  you should test and find your feeds at urls like http yoursitecom feeds username rssxml you can use this path for aggregating on another site you can also attach the rss feed to another display of view to make the feed link appear on that display  