diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e65ae7b..787ce6d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -68,3 +68,4 @@ If you'd like me to let you know when I release a new theme, just [drop me your
 - [SVG icons](https://github.com/neilorangepeel/Free-Social-Icons) by Neil Orange Peel 
 - The team at [Jekyll](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll)!
 - Code/design reviewers
+- [Joel Glovier](http://joelglovier.com/writing/) for some of his great Jekyll articles—I used feed.xml and sitemap.xml
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diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 6902b49..0ae4366 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ name: Site Name
 # A short bio or description
 description: Your Site Description
 
+# Your actual website URL (e.g. http://barryclark.github.io or http://www.barryclark.co)
+# Used for Sitemap.xml and your RSS feed
+url: 
+
 # A URL pointing to your avatar or profile pic
 # To use your Gravatar: (the one that GitHub uses for your profile pic)
 #   1. Go to https://github.com/YOURUSERNAME/
@@ -31,7 +35,7 @@ footer-links:
   instagram: 
   linkedin: 
   pinterest: 
-  rss: # for rss, add the entire URL of our site, e.g. http://www.barryclark.co
+  rss: # just type anything here for a working RSS icon, make sure you set the "url" at the top of this file!
   twitter: your-username
 
 #
diff --git a/sitemap.xml b/sitemap.xml
index 15d799f..4b3a4d4 100644
--- a/sitemap.xml
+++ b/sitemap.xml
@@ -1,52 +1,20 @@
 ---
-layout: none
-sitemap:
-    priority: 0.7
-    changefreq: monthly
-    lastmod: 2013-11-16T10:17:00-05:00
 ---
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
-  <url>
-    <loc>{{ site.url }}/</loc>
-    <lastmod>{{ site.time | date_to_xmlschema }}</lastmod>
-    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
-    <priority>1.0</priority>
-  </url>
-  {% for post in site.posts %}
+    {% for post in site.posts %}
     <url>
-      <loc>{{ site.url }}{{ post.url }}</loc>
-      {% if post.lastmod == null %}
-        <lastmod>{{ post.date | date_to_xmlschema }}</lastmod>
-      {% else %}
-        <lastmod>{{ post.lastmod | date_to_xmlschema }}</lastmod>
-      {% endif %}
-      <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
-      <priority>0.5</priority>
+        <loc>{{ site.url }}{{ post.url | remove: 'index.html' }}</loc>
+    </url>
+    {% endfor %}
+
+    {% for page in site.pages %}
+    {% if page.layout != nil %}
+    {% if page.layout != 'redirect' %}
+    <url>
+        <loc>{{ site.url }}{{ page.url | remove: 'index.html' }}</loc>
     </url>
-  {% endfor %}
-  {% for page in site.pages %}
-  <url>
-    <loc>{{ site.url }}{{ page.url }}</loc>
-    {% if page.sitemap.lastmod %}
-      <lastmod>{{ page.sitemap.lastmod | date: "%Y-%m-%d" }}</lastmod>
-    {% elsif page.lastmod %}
-      <lastmod>{{ page.lastmod | date: "%Y-%m-%d" }}</lastmod>
-    {% elsif page.date %}
-      <lastmod>{{ page.date | date: "%Y-%m-%d" }}</lastmod>
-    {% else %}
-      <lastmod>{{ site.time | date: "%Y-%m-%d" }}</lastmod>
     {% endif %}
-    {% if page.sitemap.changefreq %}
-      <changefreq>{{ page.sitemap.changefreq }}</changefreq>
-    {% else %}
-      <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
     {% endif %}
-    {% if page.sitemap.priority %}
-      <priority>{{ page.sitemap.priority }}</priority>
-    {% else %}
-      <priority>0.3</priority>
-    {% endif %}
-  </url>
-  {% endfor %}
-</urlset>
+    {% endfor %}
+</urlset>
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