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Review steps to create an RSS feed for campus blog articles
Review steps to create an RSS feed for campus blog articles

Find step by step instructions to create RSS feeds to bring in blogs from your campus to publish in uConnect.

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Written by Anna Brogan
Updated over a week ago

Do you have blogs featuring campus ongoings, alumni stories and other professional advice that your subscribers will find useful? Create an RSS feed to bring those blogs in, and publish to the communities as you best see fit!

How to find the RSS Feed

1. Go to the content page or content listing you are trying to find an RSS feed for.

2.Copy the URL of that page from your browser bar.
3. Go to https://validator.w3.org/feed/
4. Paste the URL you copied into the box and click “Check”.If an RSS feed is available for the content and declared in the page’s markup, the validator will find it and adjust the URL in the field on the results page.WordPress sites can usually find their RSS feed by add “/feed” to the end of their homepage or any category page URL.# Validate an RSS feed1.

Get the RSS feed’s URL.


1. Go to https://validator.w3.org/feed/
2. Paste the URL you copied into the box and click “Check”.The W3C Feed Validation Service will confirm if the feed is correctly formatted.# RSS only has excerptThis solution varies by platform, and you must have access to the dashboard or administrative control panel. Otherwise, file a support request with whoever owns the service.If you are using WordPress, the Reading Settings control your RSS feed. You can adjust both how many items to show, and whether to show “Summary” or “Full text” of each post. Details are here: https://wordpress.com/support/settings/reading-settings/

For other content management systems, you may need technical support from your internal IT team.

Note:

• RSS lacks featured images.

• This solution varies by platform, and you must have access to the dashboard or administrative control panel. Otherwise, file a support request with whoever owns the service.If you are using WordPress, a plugin is required. Follow this guide: https://woorkup.com/show-featured-image-wordpress-rss-feed/#add-featured-image-rss-feed-plugin Or, you can alternatively use this plugin instead: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rss-featured-image/

• For other content management systems, you may need technical support from your internal IT team.

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