Latest Feed

When to use

Your library may publish frequently updated web content such as news and/or blog and you may want the latest updates automatically added to your website.

If you want to display a list of latest posts in the sidebar on all pages of your website, use the WordPress built-in RSS widget. You can add it by going to Appearance -> Widget -> RSS. Please note: only a site administrator can create a site-wide RSS widget.

If you want to display the title of the latest post on a specific page, use this shortcode.

Basic usage

Code

[rssfeed]]https://www.library.illinois.edu/feed/[[/rssfeed]

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New Reflection Room in the Main Library
posted on February 18, 2025

Attributes

author

If you want to display the name of the author, set the value of the author attribute to 1.

Code

[rssfeed author="1"]]http://publish.illinois.edu/commonsknowledge/feed/[[/rssfeed]

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Graduation Interview with our Graduate Assistants
By Precious Olalere - May 12, 2023

text

The text attribute inserts whatever text/label you want to added before the post title and separate them by a colon and a space.

Code

[rssfeed text="Latest episode"]]https://www.library.illinois.edu/scholarlycommons/podcast/feed[[/rssfeed]

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Latest episode: It Takes Jess Hagman
March 29, 2022

The two attributes can be used at the same time.

Code

[rssfeed author="1" text="Latest news"]]https://www.library.illinois.edu/feed/[[/rssfeed]

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Latest news: New Reflection Room in the Main Library
By Murphy Heather - February 18, 2025

show_post

Shows the whole post.

Code

[rssfeed show_post="yes" author="1" text="Latest news"]]https://www.library.illinois.edu/feed/[[/rssfeed]

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New Reflection Room in the Main Library

Reflection Room in the Main Library

The University Library announces the opening of a new Reflection Room—a quiet, welcoming spot for reflection, meditation, contemplation, or prayer. Features include a couch and non-locking cubbies for belongings, as well as a foot washing station. The Reflection Room is located in Room 438 of the Main Library and is open to all during regular building hours—no reservation is needed.

There is also a Reflection Room in Grainger Engineering Library Information Center (Room 229).