RSS newbie in need of help
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I’m creating a webpage for a client who also has a wordpress blog. My client would like blog posts to show up as an RSS feed in the webpage I’m creating, a mockup of which can be found here:
http://www.baddeley.be/isambard/sample9.htm
The RSS feed is in the top right corner. As a total newb to RSS I don’t know where to start: most of the support literature reads like a Russian dictionary.
Can anyone help me through this, explaining in very basic terms the steps I need to take to achieve this kind of RSS feed from a wordpress blog to an external site.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Rich
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Can you give us a link to the blog you’re talking about and verify that it is on wordpress.com shared hosting and not selfhosted, please?
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the blog will be on wordpress and should be up and running in the next couple of days (my client is setting up the blog and will provide me with its address as soon as it’s created)…
essentially it will be a series of posted videos and news items…
the RSS feed on the website (mockup link above) should have a short description (or the title of) of each new post up to a maximum of the latest 6 or 7 posts…
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Who is going to host the blog? From the mockup it looks like it will be hosted by a company other than wordpress.com, which provides free blogs. This explains the differences:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1
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the link is to a mockup of the clients externally hosted website… they will also have a wordpress hosted blog… their externally hosted website should have an RSS feed which shows new blog-posts…
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So the blog will be hosted on their own server? In that case we won’t be able to help you and you’ll have to ask over at http://wordpress.org/support.
Good luck.
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no… the blog will be hosted on wordpress… the RSS feed from this blog will appear on their externally hosted website…
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Well, the RSS feed here on wordpress.com is included by default, it will be: http://NAME.wordpress.com/feed/
But we can’t help you on how to implement that on an external, selfhosted site, sorry.
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You could try an iframe, but that has its drawbacks:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/embedding-blog-similar-to-youtube?replies=3#post-294951
Beyond that, we don’t have a clue here as we can’t use iframes or embeds on wordpress.com blogs.
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i appreciate your help, but im not sure I’ve explained my intentions fully:
mockup page
http://www.baddeley.be/isambard/sample9.htmOn the mockup-page (externally hosted website page) there is a small section in the top-right corner that says ‘newsfeed’ with an RSS logo next to it.
In this section of the page I wish to display the titles of the last 6 blog postings only. When clicked, each of these titles should hyperlink to the relevent post on the wordpress hosted blog.
I don’t wish to display the entire wordpress blog on an external page. I just want to link to blog-posts.
Is this possible?
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@richardbadly, this is something that we simply don’t know as none of us here have ever done anything like that. Basically what you are looking for is to implement an “RSS widget” (that is what it is called here) into the website. Again, this is simply not something that we are familiar with.
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Hi Richard, I think I do understand, but beyond telling you the RSS feed url from wordpress we can’t do anything. You’ll have to find support from the people that make the software for the other site you’re going to use.
We are only familiar with the shared hosting of wordpress.com. To use a simple analogy, you’re asking on a forum that specialises on bananas on how to build a street.
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Although it isn’t really a wordpress problem as such, you might ask over at http://wordpress.ORG/support/ which is where self-hosted wordpress blogs are supported. They have a very high level of “geek” over there and someone might be able to point you in the right direction.
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