Will images from my blog posts show up?

Usually. We look at the enclosure, then media tags, then the first image in the post content. If a feed carries no images at all, the layout falls back to headlines and summaries rather than leaving empty frames.

Can I display someone else's blog?

Technically any public feed works. Publishing a feed is an invitation to syndicate it, but keep attribution and links back intact — reproducing a whole article without credit is a copyright question, not an RSS one.

What if the feed only includes summaries?

Then you get summaries — we cannot show what a publisher did not publish. Most feeds carry enough for a headline, a date and a line of context, which is what an article list needs.

Does it work with podcasts?

Yes. A podcast feed is an RSS feed with audio enclosures, so episodes come through with their titles, dates and artwork.

RSS

An RSS feed widget for any feed, on any page.

RSS is the quiet one. No developer account, no review board, no rate limit negotiated with a platform — a URL and a layout. It is also the only source here that has never once broken because a company changed its mind, which makes an RSS widget the most durable thing you can put on a page.

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RSS works today and needs nothing from you but a feed URL. There is no key to obtain and no approval to wait for.

What it looks like

Articles are headline-led. A restrained grid with room for a title and a date beats anything that treats a blog post as a photograph.

A close-up of a welder in a protective helmet working on a metal pipe, sparks scattering across the frame.

Notes from the floor: what manufacturing taught us about brand consistency

An aerial view of a freight yard with two rows of articulated lorry trailers parked in a herringbone pattern.

Why we photograph every client’s premises before we design anything

A desk in a shared office with an external monitor showing code, hands typing on a laptop, and colleagues working at desks behind.

The brief is never the problem: on asking better questions in a kickoff

An empty lecture hall photographed from the back, rows of wooden tip-up seats receding towards the front.

What a college prospectus taught us about writing for people who are frightened

What a feed contains

RSS has been stable for twenty years, which is precisely its appeal. What you get depends on how generously the publisher fills their feed, not on what a platform has decided to permit this quarter.

What you get

Titles, summaries and links from RSS 2.0, Atom and RDF feeds alike
Publication dates, so ordering is reliable
A lead image, pulled from the enclosure, the media tag, or the first image in the content
Author names, where the feed bothers to include them

What it won’t do

Anything the publisher chose not to put in the feed — summary-only feeds give you summaries
Engagement counts, because RSS has no concept of a like
Content behind a paywall or a login
Feeds that no longer exist, which fail visibly rather than silently

How to add a RSS feed

01
Find the feed URL
Most blogs expose one at /feed, /rss or /atom.xml. WordPress, Ghost, Substack and Medium all publish one by default, usually without advertising it.
02
Paste it in
Add RSS as a source and give it the URL. It validates immediately — if the feed is malformed or unreachable you will know then, not a week later.
03
Pick an article layout
Articles want a headline, a date and a line of summary. A list reads far better than a photo grid for text-led content.
04
Embed and forget
New posts appear as the publisher publishes them, at your plan's refresh cadence.

RSS is also the escape hatch

The useful secret about RSS is that a lot of platforms still publish one even where their API has become expensive, restricted or closed. When a native integration is unavailable, a feed URL is often sitting there unadvertised.

Substack, Ghost, Medium and WordPress all expose a feed by default
Most podcast hosts publish one — it is how podcasts work at all
Many news sites and university newsrooms still maintain per-section feeds
It is the only source here with no dependency on another company's product decisions