News Feeds

Summary

This page is to help SCEs add a feed of the latest news from their own website or another website using the RSS block or RSS widget. This listing of news is automatically updated when new posts are published.


RSS Block and RSS Widget

RSS Block

When to use: Use the RSS block to include the news feed within the content of a WordPress page or post.

How to add this block:

  1. Select the add block button
  2. Select the RSS block which is located under the widgets section of the block chooser. It is denoted with the icon.
  3. Enter the URL of the RSS feed you want to include.

RSS Widget

When to use: Use the RSS Widget to include the news feed on your sidebar.

How to add this widget:

  1. Hover over the Appearance tab and select the Widgets
  2. Add the RSS widget to the primary sidebar by selecting add block button and choose the RSS widget icon.
  3. Enter the URL of the RSS feed you want to include.

What URL to Use

To include news published on Kalamazoo College News:

The URL is https://www.kzoo.edu/news/feed/

To include only articles for your department/topic:

  • find the relevant tag in the Popular Tags listing on the right, e.g. biology
  • add “?tag=” plus your tag to the end of the URL, e.g. https://www.kzoo.edu/news/feed/?tag=biology
  • replace spaces with hyphens on multi-word tags, e.g. https://www.kzoo.edu/news/feed/?tag=career-development

To include news published on another K WordPress site:

The URL is the site URL plus “/feed/” e.g. https://library.kzoo.edu/feed/

To include news published elsewhere on the web:

Find the feed URL by looking for “RSS” or

Options

You have options to set:

  • how many recent articles to include. Articles are listed newest to oldest
  • whether to list the article author
  • whether to list the article date
  • whether to include an excerpt of the article and how many words of the excerpt to include

Demo

RSS block using the URL https://library.kzoo.edu/feed/

Default settings

With author and date, limited to last 3 posts

With excerpt, limited to last post