Show headline and descr. on web site w/ RSS?

  • heliosweb

    22 years, 4 months ago

    Can anyone give me some pointers as to how I might be able to extract the most current article title and article description (as defined in the blog’s RSS XML file) from my WP blog and show it on my web site, using RSS?
    (This would be on the site’s Home page. The blog is in a subdirectory of the site. I just want to extract <title> and <description> from the first <item> in the blog’s RSS file.)
    I don’t have a full understanding of how RSS could be used to do this, but I’m guessing it’s entirely possible to extract these elements and display them on the site, separate from the blog. Probably very elementary if you understand RSS, but I’m not there yet.
    Any help is much appreciated.
    thanx,
    steve

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  • Thread Starter Anonymous

    22 years, 4 months ago

    Yes, except I only want to show the very first <item> and its associated <title> and <description> … not the whole schmear. Any tips on how I can do that specifically?
    Sorry for my ignorance on this, but what you pointed me to was something like an “RSS processor” script? What’s the technical term for that? I guess I was under the impression that there was a more direct way of pulling in the specific data from the RSS file to a separate page.
    (Wish I understood RSS better. My knowledge of PHP is even less… but I am familiar with using pre-built scripts. Just can’t decipher them completely or write PHP code… maybe one day…)
    THanks for any help,
    steve

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