RSSWidget in body

  • Resolved cbltim

    (@cbltim)


    15 years, 10 months ago

    I’m trying to fetch a RSS feed and display it in the body of a page.

    I’ve tried the RSSImport plug-in and it does not display the feed, nor does the magpierss code. What does display the feed is the standard RSSwidget plug-in which comes with WordPress (yay!) except that the RSSWidget ‘seems’ to only display content in the sidebar (boo!).

    First question: Is there anyway to relocate the RSSwidget content for this feed from the sidebar into the body of a page? or rather – is there shortcode or html, to call upon the RSSwidget from the body of a page?

    Follow-up question, is there anyway of doing this without completely removing any other RSSWidget feeds from the sidebar.

    My apologies if this has come up the past, but I’ve spent hours scouring the forums trying to find a resolution and couldn’t find anything which suited the issue. Thank you in advance !

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  • Hi,

    Please try with text widget and add the RSS feeds in that..after add it in the post…

    Thanks,

    Shane G.

    Thread Starter cbltim

    (@cbltim)

    Thanks for the suggestion, however adding the RSS feed into a text widget [using RSSImport code and shortcode] does not make it appear either. Granted, my target RSS feed itself may not be well structured for RSSimport – but it does verify using feedvalidator.org, and the built-in WordPress RSSWidget does fetch it correctly as well, so I have to assume this is possible!

    One thing of note, I’m trying to display the RSS content on a ‘page’, not as a ‘post’, if that makes any difference.

    Any suggestions on how to call up the RSSWidget code directly for the page?

    Thanks,

    Tim

    Thread Starter cbltim

    (@cbltim)

    UPDATE:

    I dug around a little further and found a plug-in which enables RSS feeds to be displayed nicely in the body of a WordPress page. Looks like this plug-in was updated a couple days ago;)

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/lexi/

    I’d call the situation resolved for the meantime, put enabling some code to call upon the already provided RSSwidget would certainly be appreciated.

    I just posted something similar about RSSImport before seeing this post. If anyone has gotten it to work would love to hear about it. I second the comments on the rsswidget. I’ve just started experimenting with worpress and the inabilty to show the widget ouput in the main page seems to me to be a major shortcoming.

    Lexi (https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/lexi/) works perfectly. The documentation is a little confusing, but having installed the Lexi plugin, configured it to add a feed to it’s list, all you need to do is to add [lexi:1] to the body of a page. Note: “1” is the first feed you defined in it’s list, “2” the second etc.

    This works on WordPress 2.8.6.

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