RSS

An RSS feed is a machine readable version of the content of a blog or a website. With the RSS block you can display updates on your site dynamically. The feed is updated automatically after you added the block. Learn more about RSS on Wikipedia

• STS-129 Crew Aboard the Space Station
  November 20, 2024
  The STS-129 crew members posed for a portrait following a joint news conference on Nov. 24, 2009, with the Expedition 21 crew members (out of frame) on the International Space Station. Pictured (clockwise) from bottom left are astronauts Charles O. Hobaugh, commander; Mike Foreman, Leland Melvin, Robert L. Satcher Jr. and Randy Bresnik, all mission […]
• On This Day: Apollo 12 Lands on the Moon
  November 19, 2024
  On Nov. 19, 1969, astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, begins to step off the ladder of the lunar module to join astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., mission commander, in a spacewalk. Conrad and Bean descended in the Apollo 12 lunar module to explore the moon while astronaut Richard F. […]
• First Nations Launch Winners Watch Crew-7 Launch
  November 18, 2024
  Participants from the 14th First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Competition watch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 launch from the Banana Creek viewing site at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. Students and advisors from University of Washington, University of Colorado-Boulder, and an international team from Queens University – this year’s First […]
• Two Years Ago: Artemis I Launch
  November 15, 2024
  NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launched on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I mission was the first integrated flight test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems.
• 55 Years Ago: Apollo 12 Launches
  November 14, 2024
  The 363-feet tall Apollo 12 space vehicle launches from Pad A, Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:22 a.m. EST, Nov. 14, 1969. Aboard the Apollo 12 spacecraft were astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., commander; Richard F. Gordon Jr., command module pilot; and Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot. Apollo 12 […]

The RSS block is found in the “Widget” category of the inserter. It is used to display items from a RSS feed, for instance of another Blog or WordPress site. You can display the Title, Author, Date and Excerpt of each item in the feed. You can display it in a list or as a grid in a set number of columns.

Detailed instructions on adding blocks can be found here.

You need to know the RSS Feed’s URL. Some websites display an orange icon  with a link together with their links to their social network profiles
Learn more about WordPress Feeds 

Our example uses the feed of the News section on WordPress.org.  https://wordpress.org/news/feed

Once you paste or type the Feed’s address in to the “Enter URL here…”-box, and click on “Use URL”-button, the block displays the titles of the feed items. 

Use the options in the Block Toolbar and the controls in the Block Settings panel in your editor’s sidebar to fine-tune the display.

Block Toolbar

The Block Toolbar shows six buttons: 

Transformer 

RSS block is not transform-able to any other block. 

Alignment:

• Align Left
• Align Center
• Align Right
• Wide Width (if supported by your Theme)
• Full Width (if supported by your Theme)

Edit 

You can change the feed’s address by entering a different URL.

List

The “List” option displays the feed items in an unordered list. Use the Block Settings controls to adjust the display.

Grid 

Display the feed items in a grid. Use the Block settings controls to adjust the number of columns and the other display options. 

Block Settings

Number of items

Slider and number box to adjust the number of feed items you’d like to display. To change the number move the dot on the slider or update the number in the box next to it.

Display author

Switch on/off the display of the author’s name 

Display date

Switch on/off the display of the published date of the feed items

Display excerpt

Switch on/off the display of an excerpt from the feed items content. 

Max number of words in excerpt

Control the number of words that you display from the feed item’s content.  The minimum number is 10. This section is not visible if “Display excerpt” is in the OFF position. 

Columns

Slider to control the number of columns for the grid view. This option is only visible when you select the Grid view on the Block Toolbar. )