RSS Feed Widget

RSS Feed Widget turns any RSS or Atom feed into a tidy, fast and accessible block of content on your site. Use it as a widget, a Gutenberg block or a shortcode.

Highlights

• Widget, “RSS Feed” block and [rfw-feed-widget] shortcode, all with the same options
• Layouts: list or slider (a small dependency-free script, keyboard accessible, respects “reduce motion”)
• Show or hide titles, images, text, date and feed name; limit the words shown; open links in a new tab
• Smart image detection from enclosures, media thumbnails and the item content
• Sort by feed order, newest, oldest, A-Z, Z-A or random
• Built-in caching with a “last good copy” fallback if a feed goes down
• Mute words and phrases site-wide, or hide words per widget
• Shortcode builder and a feed tester in Settings > RSS Feed Widget
• [rfw-youtube-videos] shortcode for privacy-friendly YouTube embeds (youtube-nocookie.com)
• No jQuery, no Bootstrap, no tracking, nothing loaded on pages that do not show a feed

Shortcode example

[rfw-feed-widget rss_url="https://wordpress.org/news/feed/" number="5" list_type="list" show_feed_title="true" keep_feed_link="true" show_date="true"]

Pro (optional add-on)

Pro is plug and play: copy its pro folder into the plugin folder and the extra features switch on. Remove the folder and the free plugin keeps working.

• Combine up to 10 feeds in one widget, merged by date, duplicates removed
• Include / exclude keyword filters and “only the last N days”
• Grid and news-ticker layouts
• Auto-import feed items as posts on a schedule, with a link to the source
• Custom image tag support for unusual feeds

External services

• The feed URLs you enter are fetched by your server (and cached). Nothing is sent to us.
• The optional YouTube shortcode embeds videos from youtube-nocookie.com (Google LLC, privacy policy). If you add a Google API key and a channel ID, your server calls the YouTube Data API (googleapis.com) to find the latest videos (terms).