Add an RSS Feed on your Wordpress Sidebar

By User Image Bambit on May 10th, 2008

Convenience is one of the general features of the new WordPress 2.+ versions. Adding stuff to your sidebar has never been easier. Add-ons that had been handled by external plugins in the earlier versions of WordPress are now built-in. They can also be added into your sidebar through drag and drop.

One of these built-in drag and drop features is the RSS feed widget. I’ve just added it myself on the second sidebar, which now features an RSS feed of my Top 10 EntreCard Droppers.

If your WordPress installation is at version 2 and up, you should be able to see the RSS widget when you click on Design > Widgets on your WordPress administration screen.

Once you’ve added it to the sidebar of your choice, you can then edit the widget to show the RSS feed that you would like to appear on your sidebar, in my case it looks like this:

When you’ve entered the necessary data, click on “Change” and then “Save Changes”. When you go to the front end (homepage) of your site, you should be able to see something similar to what I have under the Communities Badges on this site.

You can have more than one RSS feed on your sidebar, just keep dragging that RSS widget into the spot where you want them to appear and presto!

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5 Responses to “Add an RSS Feed on your Wordpress Sidebar”

Jason (Who am I?)
Jun 7th, 2008 at 4:03 am
Wordpress is the absolute best CMS I have ever seen. I have not made use of the RSS feeds on my sidebar yet, but I am going to give it a try.

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Bambit (Who am I?)
Jun 7th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Hi Jason, been to your site, it’s one of the neatest wordpress sites I’ve ever been on. I took out the original feed I first put into my sidebar and replaced it with my Top Ten EC Droppers, reason being the old rss feed I put in did not update as often as the actual site it was coming from did. Kinda weird, come to think of it.
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Jason (Who am I?)
Jun 7th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Bambit,

Thanks for the compliment on my wordpress site. I like the way the EC Dropper works. Weird that your RSS feed didn’t update. Check out Search Commander and you will see a nice RSS feed on the right hand side. If you click on the link underneath it, it allows you to create and edit the look of any RSS feed. Its actually a very cool tool. Talk to you later.

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cooltravelguide.com (Who am I?)
Jun 21st, 2008 at 8:00 pm
This was very useful info. I’m going to put that RSS widget on use right away!

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Rampa (Who am I?)
Jun 24th, 2008 at 2:27 am
Cheers for the insight, There are some posts I found quite interesting, in this blog.
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