RSS shortcode doesnt work

That’s a WordPress.com support document, an entirely separate entity from www.ads-software.com.

On your www.ads-software.com blog, you have an RSS widget that you can add, you don’t need to use the shortcode in a Text widget.

That's a WordPress.com support document, an entirely separate entity from www.ads-software.com.

Wow, thats … confusing. When i was login in i was confused by wordpress panel at that site. Login and password was the same so i thought its some kind of new forum management system. Even searching for this forum through google, through my native language forum and skipping wordpress.com forums wasnt easy and obvious.

As for the answer. I dont need RSS wigdet. I need RSS shortcode to use RSS’s in particular widget (slider).

There’s a few here that might work for you: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search.php?q=RSS+shortcode

Well i thought its a matter of some simple php hack, because shortcodes arent difficult to implement. Im using child theme and I wanted to avoid using plugin. But if its necessary then ill rather use ready sliding plugin.

Anyway, thanks for help.

I’ll leave this topic open, maybe someone wil give some simple php solution for this.

I don’t recommend hacking core files, ever. For one thing, it makes WordPress unstable. WordPress is designed to work as WordPress is. For another thing, you’ll lose your core hacks when you upgrade.

Plugins are always the safest way to go, whether you’re using a child theme or not has no impact on using plugins.

Well i didnt mention it but i thought its pretty much obvious. Offcourse when i was writing about php hacking i ment functions.php in child theme. I never touch core files neither of wordpres core nor plugins or themes. I always use child themes and even if some stubborn plugin stylesheets have !important tag with all their styles im unregistering whole style – not replace it physicaly like many users do .

As for plugins its VERY easy to overload wordpress with bunch of “onetask” plugs and im trying to avoid this by installing only those more complicated and demanding ones. Thats why i chose to install rss with tabs plugins instead of simple shortcode plugin.