RSS Feeds

Owned by Zachary Restifo
Last updated: Mar 09, 2021
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Inserting an RSS Feed on your page is a simple solution for adding a list of automatically updated news.

The following instructions provide information on adding an RSS Feed to your page via Tridion.

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Creating the RSS Feed Component

Before adding an RSS Feed to your page, you must create an RSS Feed component.

Click New Component (blue) to begin creating an RSS Feed component.

 

In the Building Blocks folder of your respective website, click New Component (highlighted in blue above) in the Create tab (highlighted in yellow above) of the navigation bar.

You will be taken to a new page for creating the component (shown below):

 

Creating an RSS Feed component.

 

  1. Enter an appropriate Name for your component.

  2. Choose RSS Feed from the Schema drop down menu (highlighted in yellow above).

  3. Heading: Insert a title for your RSS Feed.

  4. Number of items to display: This is the amount of news items that will populate in your list.

    • Keep this number low.

  5. URL of the feed: Insert the URL of a site's RSS Feed.

  6. Save and Close the component (highlighted in blue above).

Once you have saved the component, you are ready to add the feed to a page.

 

Adding the RSS Feed Component to a Page

After creating the RSS Feed component, you can add the component to a page.

  1. Navigate in the Root folder to the page you'd like to add an RSS Feed to and double-click to open the page.

  2. In the window that opens, click the Component Presentations tab.

  3. Click Insert at the bottom left of the page window.

  4. Browse to the RSS Feed component you created and click to select it.

  5. From the Component Template dropdown, select either the RSS Feed or the RSS Feed for side column template.

    • Examples of both are shown in the next section.

  6. Click the Insert button at the bottom right, then the Close button.

  7. Save and Close the page, then you are ready to publish.

 

 

Example of an RSS Feed on a Page

The below screenshot shows an RSS Feed inserted as both an RSS Feed template and an RSS Feed for side column as they appear on a page:

RSS Feeds with the RSS Feed template (blue) and the RSS Feed for side column template (yellow).