RSSAvailable now
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.
RSS works today and needs nothing from you but a feed URL. There is no key to obtain and no approval to wait for.
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.
What RSS hands over
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
Setup
How to add an RSS feed to your website.
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.
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.
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.
Embed and forget
New posts appear as the publisher publishes them, at your plan's refresh cadence.
RSS, in particular
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
Install guides
Works on the site you already have.
The embed is one script tag and one element, which every builder that allows custom HTML accepts, and it renders in its own shadow root so your styles and ours never collide. Each guide shows where the paste box lives.
Neither. A feed URL is all it takes, which is why RSS is available now while several bigger names are still in review queues.
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.
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.
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.
Yes. A podcast feed is an RSS feed with audio enclosures, so episodes come through with their titles, dates and artwork.
More networks
Other feeds people build.
Every network compared side by side, including what each one demands before it will hand anything over, is on the social media widgets overview.
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Instagram widget
Posts, Reels and tagged photos from a professional account
Build your first wall today.
Connect RSS from your workspace, pick a layout, and paste one line of embed code.