diff --git a/env.lua b/env.lua
index 3a3d08a..73663aa 100644
--- a/env.lua
+++ b/env.lua
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ local env = {}
 env.app = {
   name = "gemwriter",
   exec_name = "gemwriter",
-  version = "0.2",
+  version = "0.3",
   last_updated = "2022-08-05",
 }
 
diff --git a/gemwriter.lua b/gemwriter.lua
index 5e0d2c2..ef5b156 100644
--- a/gemwriter.lua
+++ b/gemwriter.lua
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ end
 
 
 writer.docs.parse_config = [[
-  Read a config file in TOML format and load the values into a table.
+  Read the config and template files, and load the values into a table.
   ]]
 function writer.parse_config(config_file)
   local lines = util.split_lines(config_file)
@@ -107,6 +107,14 @@ function writer.parse_config(config_file)
 
   -- Set lang
   lang = require("lang." .. writer.conf.app_lang)
+
+  -- Custom templates override lang defaults (ignore config)
+  for name, file in pairs(env.defaults.config_files) do
+    if name ~= "config" then
+      local template = util.read_file(writer.conf.config_dir .. "/" .. file)
+      if template ~= "" then lang[name] = template end
+    end
+  end
 end
 
 
@@ -301,16 +309,15 @@ function writer.gen_atom_feed()
   -- Reverse insert log posts, newest first
   for e = #writer.posts, 1, -1 do
     feed_post = lang.atom_entry
-    -- Escape html entities in post contents. "%" is also a special character
-    -- for string.gsub() and similar functions, and will cause an error if not
-    -- escaped.
-    writer.posts[e]["content"] =
-      util.replace_html_entities(writer.posts[e]["content"])
+    writer.posts[e]["content"] = util.replace_feed_entities(
+      writer.posts[e]["content"])
     feed_post = util.replace_vars(feed_post, lang.tpl_vars.post,
       writer.posts[e])
     feed_text = feed_text .. feed_post
   end
   feed_text = feed_text .. lang.atom_footer
+  feed_text = util.replace_feed_entities(feed_text, "post")
+
   util.write_file(writer.conf.cap.gemlog_dir .. "/" ..
     writer.conf.cap.atom_feed, feed_text)
 end
diff --git a/lang/en.lua b/lang/en.lua
index 745f421..71222a2 100644
--- a/lang/en.lua
+++ b/lang/en.lua
@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ en.tpl_vars = {
 
 en.atom_header = [[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
-  <id>{{ log_url }}</id>
   <title>{{ log_title }}</title>
   <subtitle>{{ log_subtitle }}</subtitle>
   <updated>{{ feed_date }}</updated>
   <author>
     <name>{{ log_author }}</name>
   </author>
+  <id>{{ feed_url }}</id>
   <link href="{{ log_url }}" rel="alternate"/>
   <link href="{{ feed_url }}" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/>
 ]]
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 45a2dfd..2c22147 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ version                   Print version info
 - Clone this repository and change into the directory. Run:
 
   ```
-  luastatic gemwriter.lua env.lua util.lua lang/en.lua /usr/lib/liblua.so -I/usr/include -o gemwriter
+  luastatic gemwriter.lua env.lua util.lua lang/en.lua \
+    /usr/lib/liblua.so -I/usr/include -o gemwriter
   ```
 
   The paths to `liblua.so` and the development headers (i.e.
diff --git a/util.lua b/util.lua
index 4fae930..e4409a3 100644
--- a/util.lua
+++ b/util.lua
@@ -73,16 +73,24 @@ function util.replace_vars(str, vars, vals)
 end
 
 
-function util.replace_html_entities(str)
-  local html_ents = {
+function util.replace_feed_entities(str, mode)
+  -- Pre-processing before replacing feed variables
+  -- "%" is a special character for string.gsub() and similar functions, and
+  -- will cause an error if not escaped.
+  local ents = {
     percent = { "%%", "&#37;" },
-    less_than = { "<", "&#60;" },
-    greater_than = { ">", "&#62;" },
-    left_bracket = { "%[", "&#91;" },
-    right_bracket = { "%]", "&#93;" },
   }
+  -- Used post-processing of feed variables, remove empty log metadata tags
+  if mode == "post" then
+    ents = {
+      percent = { "&#37;", "%%" },
+      author = { "  <author>\n  <name></name>\n  </author>\n", "" },
+      subtitle = { "<subtitle></subtitle>\n", "" },
+      title = { "<title></title>\n", "" },
+    }
+  end
   local text = str
-  for e, c in pairs(html_ents) do
+  for e, c in pairs(ents) do
     text = string.gsub(text, c[1], c[2])
   end
   return text