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 Leisure Reading Collection
posted on March 26, 2026

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 Leisure Reading Collection
By Murphy Heather - March 26, 2026

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 Leisure Reading Collection

The University Library is excited to introduce a new leisure reading collection, created to support reading for enjoyment. No syllabus!

The collection, located in the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (Room 101 in the Main Library building), will include more than 250 books with many New York Times best sellers and around 100 fiction titles. Leisure reading and play—graphic novels, board and video games, and gaming consoles—are also supported in other library locations, such as the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, as well as the Media Commons, the Main Stacks, and the Literature and Languages Library within the Main Library.

Start browsing and discover your next fun read.