Rendering RSS on my blog or wiki

I have for a long time sought to present rss feeds within pages on this blog. It was started by a desire to use my social bookmark service as additional links in some of the reference articles on this wiki. The page was started in Jun 2014. Here my notes, although this page was subject to a major re-write in 2020.

There are further notes on my original delicious solution, involving their script and code embed, on Delicious Linkrolls and how I attempted to recover the delicious bookmark file. (I gave up the delicious file, it was too big, and too old; too much was broken and now useless. )

This page has notes on all the plugins I have used/experimented with.

Feedzy RSS Feeds Lite

I installed this on my momentum blog, and it sort of works. Here are some links, I got it to render, but can’t get it to post pictures on my rss files and would like to access the element names to fiddle with the css.

1. https://docs.themeisle.com/article/1130-how-to-use-feedzy-with-a-shortcode

I tested this with my linkedin.rss to on my momentum blog. I had some problems rendering the thumbnail images. I suspect the rss syntax. Here are some links,

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTXnmMlipmo
2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/483675/images-in-rss-feed
3. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/705224/how-do-i-add-an-image-to-an-item-in-rss-2-0

I fixed this in Feb 2025, using this page of documentation, I used the “default” parameter, my shortcode looks like this,

Davelevy's Favorite Links from Diigo  
mainly macro: Key myths on asylum, immigration and how to take on the far right
on September 9, 2025 at 11:50 am 
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	        economics […]
Labour’s about to find out that alignment is not the same as agreement
on September 3, 2025 at 2:57 pm 
vi archive.ph, written very early in the administration but highlights the conflict between restricting immigration and growing […]
Ukrainians who fled to UK being refused asylum on grounds it is ‘safe to return’ | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
on September 2, 2025 at 7:30 pm 
"Law firm says it hears weekly from Ukrainians, including vulnerable women and children, who were turned down" […]
Channel crossings hit 50,000 since Labour came to power - BBC News
on August 18, 2025 at 7:03 pm 
"The number of migrants to cross the English Channel in small boats since Labour came to power last summer has surpassed […]
Small boats: Why so many Vietnamese are fleeing to the UK - BBC News
on August 15, 2025 at 2:41 pm 
Phuong's story, she wants to live with her sister, a UK national.
		
		
		
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	        politics […]
 

Note the use of the summarylength argument

My rss looks like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
    <title>dave levy's linkedin blog</title>
    <description>dave levy's posts at linkedin pulse</description>
    <link>http://davelevy.info/pulse/linkedin.rss</link>
    <lastBuildDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 09:45:09 +0100</lastBuildDate>
    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 09:45:09 +0100</pubDate>
<item>
    <title>Learnings of Bitcoin</title>
    <link>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learnings-bitcoin-david-levy</link>
    <description>On Bitcoin, the consensus mechanism, and money</description>
    <media:content height="151" medium="image" url="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/08/23/upshot/up-econ/up-econ-moth.jpg" width="151"/>
    <pubDate>28 JUL 2020 0900 +0100</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Doing Record Management well</title>
<link>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/doing-record-management-well-david-levy/</link>
<description>About Record Management, anti-crime and ISO standards</description>
<image>
    <url>https://is.gd/MwPNtT</url>
    <title>Doing Record Mangement Well</title>
    <link>http://davelevy.info/pulse/linkedin.rss</link>
    <description>About Record Management, anti-crime and ISO standards</description>
    <height>81</height>
    <width>141</width>
</image>
<pubDate>15 JUL 2020 10:00 +0100</pubDate>
</item>
<item>

RSS Shortcode

I have also used RSS Shortcode, and have implemented it on the About Feeds page. I am not sure why I discontinued with this, might have been it gave me nothing that JP-RSS-FEED did not, time to revisit as JP-RSS-Feed seems to have given up the ghost.

JP-RSS-FEED

I moved onto JP’s Get RSS Feed, a wordpress plugin. I planned to use this to replace my delicious linkrolls using the delicious rss location. The Valencia page failed with an error in this plugin. I have deactivated it.

See also my snip, Delicious Linkrolls but the Valencia call was aimed at the delicious feed.

It requires a shortcode/codesnip to invoke its parameters e.g

 
[jp-rss-feed 
    url="http://feeds.del.icio.us/v2/rss/davelevy/convoyswharf" 
    numitems="7" getdesc="50" ] 

I should document this differently; the snip must be on one line, and no space between the [ & the ‘jp’.

There’s a few more parameters which are documented on their home page

RSS on page via short code

and now we have another RSS rendering widget,RSS via shortcode on page

I am not sure how I used this but it seems I wrote “this was found to be broken on 17th October 2016”.

I fixed the simplepie version of the RSS rendering engine, it errored on the obverse of the home page ; it works on my ex-delicious files, but not if named .rss, I changed it to .xml. e.g.

The text/shortcode [do_widget “RSS”] is the code that works, but I have removed it as a short code.

More Maybe

There is also, this page, on the 4 best rss plugins.