Comments on: Customizing RSS Feed Links for WordPress.com and WordPress Sidebar Widgets

By: ProfesorYeow

ProfesorYeow — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:35:16 +0000

Very interesting. Thanks for the info!!!

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:33:56 +0000

Possibly. However, I’m seeing normal external feeds coming into your site. They look fine. That feed widget has its own unique styles in CSS. Good luck.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:00:07 +0000

Thanks for the quick response.

I was referring to the RSS widget which pulls a feed from elsewhere, and has an optional title.

I typed the words into the optional field of the widget, and they show up just as I typed them. The problem is that the widget automatically makes the title words a link to the site. Because the title is a link, CSS colors them the same as all other links in the sidebar. However, other sidebar links are displayed against a dark background – while the titles are against a white background.

It looks like I would need to define the RSS widget as a special class and then set the style for it separately.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:45:00 +0000

There are two feed widgets in WordPress. One is for displaying the feeds on the site which displays the icon, text (posts or entries and comments), or a combination of the two. There is another for displaying feeds from on or off your site. That one picks up the title from the site. If you are not seeing the title, you have either added the URL in the title area or the page is not generating the title tag correctly.

As for styling the links, that’s a design CSS and Theme issue and not part of the default functionality of WordPress.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:47:52 +0000

Great site. Thanks very much for this post, in particular.

I’m trying to figure out how to make the RSS feed widget display the title as just words – not as a link to the feed page. Not urgent, but I had to make the links in sidebar a strange color in order to get links to show up on dark green as well as white.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:13:41 +0000

The only way to add feeds to a page is through a WordPress Plugin that permits feeds to be displayed on a page on your site or through the feed Widget in the sidebar. You can’t just dump it in and expect it to work.

By: stephendrennan

stephendrennan — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:44:55 +0000

I am trying to get my wordpress rss feed from my blog to show up on my landing page, I entered the feed url http://example.com/blog/?feed=rss2 in my index for html but my blog posts will not update on my landing page http://example.com, any help would be greatly appreciated!

By: Style Your Site « umarqureshi

Style Your Site « umarqureshi — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:30:39 +0000

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:22:27 +0000

You choose the option in the Feed Widget to make the icons appear. If they do not appear, WordPress or your Theme does not have the images and you will have to upload them.

By: Ryan W

Ryan W — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:47:15 +0000

How do I get the images for rss feeds to display on my wordpress page