Title: RSS introduction?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# RSS introduction?

 *  [tommclaughlan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommclaughlan/)
 * (@tommclaughlan)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-introduction/)
 * excuse me for sounding like a newbie but i am.
    i’m having a bit of confusion
   regarding rss. i think rss is what i need to use anyway.
 * basically what i am wanting to do is display the most recent posts from my wordpress
   blog onto my personal website, fitting the style, etc of the website.
 * is rss the way to go to achieve this?
 * thanks, tom
 * PS i have NO idea how to put an rss feed into my website.

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 *  [silpstream](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silpstream/)
 * (@silpstream)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-introduction/#post-423320)
 * Isn’t your WordPress blog part of your website?
 * Anyhow if it isn’t, then yes you could use RSS to do this. You’ll need someway(
   script – possibly php) for your site to read your RSS feed and display it into
   a template on your website. I’m not sure what you have for a backend on your 
   website, but if it is php try going to hotscripts.com and look at the xml section
   of the php scripts for somethign you like.
 *  [geoffe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffe/)
 * (@geoffe)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-introduction/#post-423351)
 * This comes up a lot, try this info: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/79092](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/79092)
 * Much depends on whether your site and your blog are hosted on the same server,
   if not the same domain.
 * It can be more practical, flexible and efficient to retrieve the text of your
   posts directly from your database, but it could be easier for you to retrieve
   the text from the rss feed that WordPress automagically generates.
 * To parse the rss, I’d suggest porting WP’s own [fetch_rss](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/fetch_rss)
   function to your home page and use it to sort things out. Presumably, your home
   website is a php file that you want to display your recent posts on.
 *  [bdp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdp/)
 * (@bdp)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-introduction/#post-423432)
 * I take my rss feed and place it on my site (albeit aggregated with other sire
   feeds) using the [BDP RSS Aggregator](http://www.ozpolitics.info/blog/?p=87)

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