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  
Labour faces watershed moment with Black and Asian voters, experts warn | Keir Starmer | The Guardian
on May 19, 2025 at 7:03 pm 
"Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ immigration speech brings wave of condemnation from anti-racism campaigners" […]
Trump officials reportedly consider TV gameshow with US citizenship as prize | Trump administration | The Guardian
on May 19, 2025 at 6:23 pm 
They say, "Homeland security department reviewing ‘out-of-the-box’ pitch in which immigrants would compete for […]
‘I can no longer see a future in the UK’: new citizenship guidance shuts out refugees | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
on May 12, 2025 at 5:22 am 
Tags:
				        
	        politics
	      		        
	        immigration
	      		        
	        Syria […]
UK access to EU crime and illegal migration data reportedly denied | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
on May 6, 2025 at 4:27 pm 
"Blow to Starmer’s hopes of post-Brexit reset and efforts to clear asylum claims amid rise of populist right" […]
Explainers - Migrants' Rights Network
on April 29, 2025 at 8:00 am 
A dictionary of terms 
		
		
		
		Tags:
				        
	        politics
	      		        
	        immigration
 

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.