How To Add An RSS Feed To A Wordpress Sidebar

TweetLog in to your WordPress admin panel.

Under the “Appearance” menu (along the left side of the admin panel), click on “Widgets

Every WordPress theme has a slightly different set of “widgetized” sections. Your “widgets” will likely be named differently than what you see in my screenshot below. Nevertheless, they all function the same.

Click to open up the widgetized section where you will be placing the RSS feed. If your theme is like mine, you will have multiple places to choose. You will need to experiment by running through this process and then checking the look on the website until you have your RSS widget in the right place.

Now, drag and drop the “RSS” widget from the left side of your screen to the “widgetized” section where you would like the RSS widget to reside.

For the next step you will need the RSS feed URL. Find the RSS feed URL of a website by clicking on the RSS icon on that website. Click here to see what an RSS icon looks like. The URL that you are taken to after clicking on an RSS icon will be the Feed URL for that page.

Copy and paste the feed URL into the first field of the widget and click “Save”