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How to: Place an RSS feed (eg. Twitter box) in the widget area

Jose Sanchez
posted this on Jul 15 14:04

Here's a sample code to place a nice and simple RSS feed in the widget area of your digital edition.

Please replace the bold font with your RSS feed (eg. http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/96842708.rss ). Twitter RSS feeds can be found on one side of your Twitter wall.

 

<!-- START COPYING HERE //-->

<script>

rssmikle_url="YOUR RSS FEED";

rssmikle_frame_width="245";

rssmikle_frame_height="400";

rssmikle_target="_blank";

rssmikle_font_size="14";

rssmikle_border="on";

rssmikle_css_url="";

rssmikle_title="on";

rssmikle_title_bgcolor="#404040";

rssmikle_title_color="#FFFFFF";

rssmikle_title_bgimage="http://";

rssmikle_item_bgcolor="#FFFFFF";

rssmikle_item_bgimage="http://";

rssmikle_item_title_length="20";

rssmikle_item_title_color="#666666";

rssmikle_item_border_bottom="on";

rssmikle_item_description="on";

rssmikle_item_description_length="40";

rssmikle_item_description_color="#666666";

rssmikle_item_description_tag="off";

rssmikle_item_podcast="icon";

</script>

<script src="http://feed.mikle.com/js/rssmikle.js"></script>

<div style="font-size:10px; text-align:right;">

<a href="http://feed.mikle.com/en/" target="_blank" style="color:#CCCCCC;">FeedWind</a>

</div>

<!-- END COPYING HERE //-->


Copy the code and paste it in the Widget section within the title you want to modify.

widget-imaget.png

Click in 'Update Title'.

widget-rss1.png

Here's a generic example of how it would look like.

RSS feeds can be used to display dynamic text on your digital editions, including tweets and news.