insert rss feed into page (illustratr theme)

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  carenmiesenberger · Member · Nov 2, 2016 at 10:48 pm

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  Hey,

  I am trying to insert a RSS feed into one fixed page on my blog. As my theme is Illustratr the widget option would only allow the RSS feed to appear in the footer. I am trying to include the RSS feed into a page though. How can I make that work?
  Thanks a lot in advance.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Nov 3, 2016 at 3:59 am

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  Hi,

  The Feeds support page says:

  Every WordPress.com blog has multiple feeds. The main content feed can be accessed by adding /feed/ to your blog’s URL.

  The site https://carenmiesenberger.wordpress.com/ evidently doesn’t have any published posts. Therefore its main RSS feed, https://carenmiesenberger.wordpress.com/feed/, shows no posts.

  Adding a link to a feed in the content of a page would be no different than adding a link to another URL in the content of a page. See the Links support page for instructions on creating text links in a post or page editor.

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  siobhyb · Member · Nov 3, 2016 at 8:51 am

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  Hi @carenmiesenberger,

  You could also use the RSS shortcode to embed a feed directly to a page:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/rss-shortcode/

  Hope that helps!

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  carenmiesenberger · Member · Nov 3, 2016 at 11:33 am

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  Hey everyone,
  thank you so much for your replies. I fear that I didn’t ask correctly, sorry!

  I am not trying to embed posts from my wordpress page to another page but the other way around: I have a fixed page (called “Portfolio”) on my wordpress page and I want to include the RSS feed of another page (that is not hosted by wordpress) into it. When I use the wordpress RSS widget I can only embed the feed into the footer (as that is what’s possible with my theme, Illustratr).

  Is there a way of embedding an RSS feed into my “portfolio”-page?

  Thank you so much!

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  siobhyb · Member · Nov 3, 2016 at 12:19 pm

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  Thanks for clarifying, @carenmiesenberger! :) The RSS shortcode can be added directly to a post or page and should work for your needs.

  Here’s an example of what the shortcode would look like if you wanted to embed the feed from the WordPress.com blog:

  [rss url=http://en.blog.wordpress.com/feed]

  In the above shortcode, you’d replace http://en.blog.wordpress.com/feed with the URL to your specific feed.

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  carenmiesenberger · Member · Nov 3, 2016 at 12:31 pm

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  Thank you so much, @siobhyb! I checked it and it worked perfectly fine!

  Is there a way of including photos into it as well?

  My portfolio looks like this on the portfolio provider page: https://carenmiesenberger.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/bildschirmfoto-2016-11-02-um-22-43-24.png

  I am basically trying to embed the appearance of that very page into my wordpress page, just as here (you’ve got to scroll down): https://www.freischreiber.de/profiles/caren-miesenberger/

  does wordpress provide that? thank you so much!

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  siobhyb · Member · Nov 3, 2016 at 4:01 pm

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  Hi @carenmiesenberger,

  It’s not possible to include photos using the RSS shortcode.

  Another option could be for you to activate the Portfolio content type and manually copy/paste the content for your portfolio items over. Illustratr will then display portfolio items in the style you see on its demo site here:

  https://illustratrdemo.wordpress.com/portfolio/

  Hope that helps to clarify your options!