Title: Add Custom RSS Widget
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Add Custom RSS Widget

 *  [red5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/red5/)
 * (@red5)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-custom-rss-widget/)
 * My customer wants the option to NOT have the RSS widget heading linked. I’d like
   to give them another version of the RSS widget where the heading is not linked.
 * The heading gets linked on line 789 of default-widgets.php. I don’t want to hack
   the core. I’d prefer to do this by creating and registering an RSS widget in 
   the theme functions.php.
 * I was able to make a new widget that looks like the RSS one by copying the core
   one and renaming, but I don’t know how to make it save the RSS URL and other 
   params.
 * any advice?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-custom-rss-widget/#post-4580855)
 * Have a look at [http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/26/the-complete-guide-to-creating-widgets-in-wordpress-28](http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/26/the-complete-guide-to-creating-widgets-in-wordpress-28)
 *  Thread Starter [red5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/red5/)
 * (@red5)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-custom-rss-widget/#post-4580856)
 * thank you.
 *  Thread Starter [red5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/red5/)
 * (@red5)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-custom-rss-widget/#post-4580862)
 * i am literally ripping off the core WP_Widget_RSS and trying to rename it and
   remove the html formatting (the title link) that the customer doesn’t like. since
   it’s a shameless rip-off, i think it’s got all the components of the tutorial.
   it just won’t save the xml url i paste into the url field. it won’t save the 
   other parmas either.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-custom-rss-widget/#post-4580865)
 * Ripping off is fine. That’s what GPL is all about. 🙂
 * I’ve done similar tricks with (say) the Archive widget before now using Justin’s
   tutorial and didn’t hit any real problems. What’s this xml url look like?
 *  Thread Starter [red5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/red5/)
 * (@red5)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-custom-rss-widget/#post-4580905)
 * it’s here:
    [http://www.rssmix.com/u/3796218/rss.xml](http://www.rssmix.com/u/3796218/rss.xml)
 * it works in a core rss widget, just not my version. the only changes i made were
   to the html styling, class name, construct name
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-custom-rss-widget/#post-4580970)
 * Did you follow the steps in the tutorial?
 *  Thread Starter [red5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/red5/)
 * (@red5)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-custom-rss-widget/#post-4580979)
 * Yes, I used the tutorial. It’s very good. Thank you for the link. My modified
   version of the core widget still doesn’t seem to be saving data entered into 
   the fields.
 * Just like the original, my widget does this on the update func:
    return wp_widget_rss_process(
   $new_instance, $testurl );
 * I wonder if I’m not supposed to try using funcs from the core. I’ll do some more
   troubleshooting and reading.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-custom-rss-widget/#post-4580979)
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