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.
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Illinois Newspaper Project Receives NEH Grant
posted on August 20, 2025
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author
If you want to display the name of the author, set the value of the author attribute to 1.
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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.
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Latest episode: It Takes Jess Hagman
March 29, 2022
The two attributes can be used at the same time.
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Latest news: Illinois Newspaper Project Receives NEH Grant
By Murphy Heather - August 20, 2025
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Shows the whole post.
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Illinois Newspaper Project Receives NEH Grant
The Illinois Newspaper Project (INP) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library has received a grant of $324,189 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to digitize 100,000 pages of historical Illinois newspapers, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the NEH and the Library of Congress. The Illinois Newspaper Project has been an NDNP partner since 2009, and has contributed over 600,000 pages of digitized newspaper content to Chronicling America, the digital newspaper collection of the Library of Congress. All Illinois newspapers digitized by the INP are also freely available on the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections (IDNC) website, which includes additional newspapers digitized thanks to other grants and generous patron donations.
The 2025-2027 grant will focus on Illinois newspapers that document the history of relations between Native American communities and settlers, from the early 19th century to the mid-20th century. The INP will partner with other Illinois cultural heritage repositories including the Newberry Library. Celestina Savonius-Wroth (head of the History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library) and William Schlaack (Digital Reformatting Coordinator for Preservation Services) will lead the project. In addition to the project leads, the Illinois Newspaper Project team includes Jessie Knoles, Geoffrey Ross, and Chris Prom.
The INP received a 2022-2024 grant from NEH in 2022. Read more…