RSS widget for Elementor

The RSS Widget displays posts from any RSS feed. You might find this handy if you want to show off one of your other blogs, or one of your favorite blogs, in your sidebar.

For further work, you need Elementor to be installed on your site. You can download it from wordpress.org

Open or create a page using Elementor and drag the widget to a page using the Elementor editor to start customizing. In the left pane of the editors, you can customize the widget to the style of your site. Each of the tabs presented a specific group of settings:

Content

Style

Advanced

Content Tab

In the Content section, you can manage the basic settings of the RSS widget such as block feed URL, number of items to display,etc.

General settings of the RSS widget
  • Title – a text field for entering the block title.
  • Title HTML Tag – select one of the available tags from the list for the text. Depending on the selected tag, the text display style will be changed. These tags also help to make your page more SEO friendly.
  • Enable title icon – the toggle to enable/disable an icon for the block title. When the icon is enabled you can choose the icon from the library and set icon spacingsize and position.
  • List layout – select the list display layout: horizontal or vertical.
  • List alignment – manage the list alignment (left, center, right).
  • Title alignment – manage the title alignment (left, center, right).
  • RSS feed URL – paste the link for your RSS.
  • Display item content – the toggle to enable the item content display.
  • Display item author(if available) – the toggle to enable the author item display.
  • Display item date – the toggle to enable the date item display.

Style tab

On the styles tab of the RSS widget, you can configure everything related to the visual style of elements: colors, typography, backgrounds, borders, and more.

There are separate sections with flexible style settings for Block titles, RSS feed items, content, etc.

Styles sections of the RSS block

Advanced Tab

The settings in the advanced tab of the RSS widget allow you to flexibly configure everything that relates to the design of the plug-in wrapper. The settings on this tab are entirely similar to the native Elementor widgets and will be convenient for experienced users of the Elementor. Learn more about Advanced Tab settings from Elmentor’s official documentation.

Save changes

Do not forget to save changes after completing the widget setup. To do this, click on the Update button at the bottom of the page.

Update page in the Elementor
Update page in the Elementor

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