How to add RSS feeds into news blocks?

I know that TagDiv newspaper doesnt natively support RSS feed import, but was hoping somebody could give some advice on this.

I want to be able to put an RSS feed in a news block and have it show the featured image, title, author, date and a short excerpt. and then I want the “read more” to point to the rss origin site.

I was using the FeedWordpress plugin and then using Auto Post Thumbnail Image Pro plugin to get a featured image out of the RSS.

for the most part this works, but the FeedWP plugin doesnt give much control as to what is pulled.
although it does pull the article into a category which is essential for TagDiv composer to make a newsblock out of.
But FeedWP doesnt allow for you to set the amount of posts and sometimes it runs wild pulling way too many updates.

I was able to successfully get the featured image and feed to appear and behave using a flexi block.
but since the FeedWP plugin grabs the image as part of the feed the image would show up twice, thus ticking the box to “hide image” in the flexibox worked. but the image from the feed excerpt doesnt resize uniformally since it is embedded from the feed plugin and not a featured image. and the excerpt length or content cannot be controlled using the flexiblock layout settings.

So even thought this combo works, it isnt perfect and customization seems a little janky.
Thus this combo doesnt work for me.

I am now using the plugin called WordPress Automatic, (it’s a fantastic plugin btw, and under $30 which is very worth it as it can pull almost anything from anywhere into your site, feeds, articles, Amazon, Youtube ect.)

but it pulls the full content into the site as a post and not just as a feed, thus making the user click the article from the block, then the article is displayed in the same site, which doesnt help to direct traffic to the origin site.
although you can set a template structure to add links to the source, you cannot automatically trim and automatically have newsblock “read more” point to the origin site easily and automatically.

Has anyone had any success in creating soemthing like this and have it behave well using news blocks?

basically, my question is how do I pull in RSS feeds, display the necc desired content and have it link to the original site?

Thanks in advance for any tips or examples.

**also, a note to the developers…Tagdiv is great, easy and robust but not having a native built-in RSS function on a template system that is primarily centered around displaying “News” seems a little disconnected.

and it would be nice if there was some better options for Woocommerce since it is becoming the goto pluign for wordpress ecommerce. There should be better native support and stlying included for product display and newsblocks, styling ect.

thanks again.

• This topic was modified 7 years by jakobe75.

Hi Jakobe,
did you find a solution to your needs, as I am looking to do the same?

Thanks
Carlo Platania