Blog + Social Cards + RSS + Insiders issue

[perpil]

Context

Setting up rss feeds when you have a blog with social cards per the instructions doesn't work. It's possible this is a mkdocs-rss-plugin issue vs a mkdocs-material issue.

Bug description

mkdocs build is looking for the social cards at the wrong path when you add the rss plugin per the docs.
The path in the resulting feed_json_created.json has social card paths that are missing the date and are incorrect: http://localhost:8000/assets/images/social/blog/posts/mission.png instead of http://localhost:8000/assets/images/social/blog/2023/09/01/the-mission-statement.png

Related links

• https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up-a-blog/#rss
• Interaction with mkdocs-material, images produces by Social plugin cause error Guts/mkdocs-rss-plugin#257

Reproduction

9.5.34+insiders.4.53.12-rss-social-blog.zip

Steps to reproduce

1. mkdocs build list errors about loading images with the wrong path.
2. mkdocs serve succeeds, but the file at http://localhost:8000/feed_json_created.json has incorrect social links.

Browser

Firefox

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[squidfunk]

Thanks for reporting.

mkdocs build is looking for the social cards at the wrong path when you add the rss plugin per the docs.

Please report this to the authors of the RSS plugin, since the problem manifests in a file generated by that plugin (feed_json_created.json). Furthermore, there have been some issues with the social plugin, e.g., Guts/mkdocs-rss-plugin#257 (as you mentioned as well), so it might be related. Essentially, the RSS plugin does not correctly handle the computed blog posts URLs, so this might be an ordering issue among plugins.

The URLs are computed as early as possible (before on_page_markdown, in on_files), so I'm quite confident the RSS plugin doesn't use the computed URLs correctly.