How to follow blogs in one place: Substack, Medium and more

Updated September 28, 2026 4 min read

To follow blogs in one place, add them to an RSS reader. Blog platforms from WordPress to Substack make an RSS feed for every blog, so new posts from all of them land in one list, and you don't need an account on any of the sites. Newsletters that only arrive by e-mail can go in the same list.

How do I follow a blog?

  1. Pick an RSS reader. It checks the blogs for you and collects their new posts. What is an RSS reader? explains the options.
  2. Paste the blog's address. In Feeder, select Add feed, paste the address, such as terrytao.wordpress.com, and press Enter. Feeder finds the blog's feed for you.
  3. Follow it. Under Available feeds, select Follow. The button changes to Following.

From then on, new posts show up newest first, marked unread until you read them. The blog doesn't learn who you are: your reader only fetches its feed.

Where do I find a blog's RSS feed?

You rarely need it, because the reader finds it. When you do, most blog platforms put the feed at a predictable address. Every example below had new posts on September 27, 2026:

PlatformWhere the feed isExample
WordPressAdd /feed/ to the blog's addressWordPress News
https://wordpress.org/news/feed/
WordPress.comAdd /feed/ to the blog's addressTerence Tao: What's new
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/feed/
SubstackAdd /feed to the newsletter's addressLetters from an American
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/feed
Mediummedium.com/feed/ plus a publication's name, or medium.com/feed/@ plus a writer's nameNetflix TechBlog
https://medium.com/feed/netflix-techblog
BloggerAdd /feeds/posts/default to the blog's addressMusings on Markets
https://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
GhostAdd /rss/ to the blog's addressTroy Hunt
https://www.troyhunt.com/rss/
TumblrAdd /rss to the blog's addressUnsounded Comic Updates
https://unsoundedupdates.tumblr.com/rss
SquarespaceAdd ?format=rss to the blog page's addressZero Day Initiative blog
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog?format=rss

WordPress also has a feed for each category (/category/name/feed/), tag (/tag/name/feed/) and author (/author/name/feed/), so you can follow just one part of a busy blog. Medium also has feeds for tags, such as https://medium.com/feed/tag/rss.

How do I follow a Substack without e-mail?

Paste the newsletter's address into your reader, or add /feed to it for the feed link. New posts then arrive in your reader instead of your inbox, next to your other blogs.

What about newsletters that only come by e-mail?

Feeder gives you a personal e-mail address for newsletters, on every plan. Each issue arrives as a post.

  1. Select Add feed and choose Newsletters.
  2. The first time, select Enable receiving newsletters in Feeder.
  3. Copy the address under Subscribe to newsletters using this email address and use it in the newsletter's sign-up form.

Feeder makes one feed per sender. Read your e-mail newsletters in Feeder covers confirmation e-mails and forwarding.

How do I follow a blog from my browser?

Install Feeder for Chrome, Firefox or Edge. On a blog, open Feeder from your toolbar and select the plus button at the top. It's filled in when the page you're on has a feed.

How do I keep a lot of blogs organized?

  • Folders. Group blogs by topic and read each folder as one list. How to create folders shows how.
  • Notifications for favorites. Get a push or desktop notification when one particular blog posts. It works on every plan.
  • Bring your list along. Coming from another reader? Import from file on the Add feed page takes an OPML file.

Are there other ways to follow blogs?

Some platforms have their own. WordPress.com's Reader is, in WordPress.com's words, "a feed aggregator", and it follows blogs off WordPress.com too, "such as from Tumblr, Blogger, or sites with an RSS feed". Many blogs also offer e-mail subscriptions. An RSS reader like Feeder puts every platform in one list, on the web, iPhone and Android.

Common questions

How do I follow a blog on WordPress?

Paste the blog's address into your RSS reader, or add /feed/ to it for the feed link. That works on WordPress.com and on self-hosted WordPress sites.

How do I follow a Blogger blog?

Paste its address into your reader. The feed is the blog's address plus /feeds/posts/default.

What is the best app to follow blogs?

An RSS reader. Feeder runs on the web, iPhone and Android, with extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Edge, and follows up to 200 feeds free. Best RSS readers, compared covers the others.

Do blogs still have RSS feeds?

Yes. WordPress, Substack, Medium, Blogger, Ghost, Tumblr and Squarespace make one for every blog. On September 28, 2026, Feeder users followed more than 3,500 Blogger blogs, 2,900 Substack newsletters, 1,300 WordPress.com blogs and 500 Medium feeds that had posted in the previous 30 days. That only counts addresses like name.substack.com, so the real number is higher.

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