How to Import an RSS Feed in WordPress – In this article I am showing you how to import an RSS feed in WordPress.
You will learn what an RSS feed is, why you might want to use it to syndicate content to your website (and what syndication is), how to import an RSS feed in WordPress with a plugin and how to select a specific post category to import.
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RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s an XML-based format used to access and import content from a website.
You can use an RSS feed mainly for two reasons:
Content syndication is the practice of importing content from a third party source, usually a website, through the corresponding RSS feed.
Some of the reasons to consider content syndication are:
To syndicate content from one or more third party websites, you need to access and import their RSS feed.
Some of the ways to find an RSS feed of a website are:
To import an RSS feed in WordPress with a plugin:
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To import an RSS feed category in WordPress:
In some cases the RSS feed URL might be domainname.com/feed or domainname.com/rss (with no previous question mark used). If that’s the case, replace the & from the example above with ? so that it reads domainname.com/feed?cat= or domainname.com/feed?category=)
I hope that by know you have learned how to import an RSS feed in WordPress. For importing an RSS category, I couldn’t find any free plugin so that’s why I came up with this trick.
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Pasquale is Founder at Increasily.com, a digital strategy agency based in Dublin, Ireland; and Co-Founder at luxury ecommerce marketplace Thesidebe.com. Pasquale has +15 years of experience in Digital Marketing and Account Management. He currently lives in Dublin with his wife, stepdaughter and cat.
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