Title: RSSWidget in body
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# RSSWidget in body

 *  Resolved [cbltim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbltim/)
 * (@cbltim)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rsswidget-in-body/)
 * I’m trying to fetch a RSS feed and display it in the body of a page.
 * I’ve tried the RSSImport plug-in and it does not display the feed, nor does the
   magpierss code. What does display the feed is the standard RSSwidget plug-in 
   which comes with WordPress (yay!) except that the RSSWidget ‘seems’ to only display
   content in the sidebar (boo!).
 * First question: Is there anyway to relocate the RSSwidget content for this feed
   from the sidebar into the body of a page? or rather – is there shortcode or html,
   to call upon the RSSwidget from the body of a page?
 * Follow-up question, is there anyway of doing this without completely removing
   any other RSSWidget feeds from the sidebar.
 * My apologies if this has come up the past, but I’ve spent hours scouring the 
   forums trying to find a resolution and couldn’t find anything which suited the
   issue. Thank you in advance !

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 *  [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * (@shane-g)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rsswidget-in-body/#post-1077065)
 * Hi,
 * Please try with text widget and add the RSS feeds in that..after add it in the
   post…
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  Thread Starter [cbltim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbltim/)
 * (@cbltim)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rsswidget-in-body/#post-1077086)
 * Thanks for the suggestion, however adding the RSS feed into a text widget [using
   RSSImport code and shortcode] does not make it appear either. Granted, my target
   RSS feed itself may not be well structured for RSSimport – but it does verify
   using feedvalidator.org, and the built-in WordPress RSSWidget does fetch it correctly
   as well, so I have to assume this is possible!
 * One thing of note, I’m trying to display the RSS content on a ‘page’, not as 
   a ‘post’, if that makes any difference.
 * Any suggestions on how to call up the RSSWidget code directly for the page?
 * Thanks,
 * Tim
 *  Thread Starter [cbltim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbltim/)
 * (@cbltim)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rsswidget-in-body/#post-1077093)
 * UPDATE:
 * I dug around a little further and found a plug-in which enables RSS feeds to 
   be displayed nicely in the body of a WordPress page. Looks like this plug-in 
   was updated a couple days ago;)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lexi/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lexi/)
 * I’d call the situation resolved for the meantime, put enabling some code to call
   upon the already provided RSSwidget would certainly be appreciated.
 *  [yawstick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yawstick/)
 * (@yawstick)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rsswidget-in-body/#post-1077170)
 * I just posted something similar about RSSImport before seeing this post. If anyone
   has gotten it to work would love to hear about it. I second the comments on the
   rsswidget. I’ve just started experimenting with worpress and the inabilty to 
   show the widget ouput in the main page seems to me to be a major shortcoming.
 *  [poddys](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poddys/)
 * (@poddys)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rsswidget-in-body/#post-1077235)
 * Lexi ([http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lexi/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lexi/))
   works perfectly. The documentation is a little confusing, but having installed
   the Lexi plugin, configured it to add a feed to it’s list, all you need to do
   is to add [lexi:1] to the body of a page. Note: “1” is the first feed you defined
   in it’s list, “2” the second etc.
 * This works on WordPress 2.8.6.

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