Adding a news feed to your Wix site is a great way to keep your visitors informed about what’s going on. There are a few different ways to do this, and the method you choose will depend on where you want the news feed to appear on your site and what kind of information you want to include in it.
If you want the news feed to appear in the sidebar of your site, the easiest way to do this is to use the RSS Feed Widget. This widget will automatically pull in content from an RSS feed and display it on your site. To add this widget to your sidebar, just go to the Widgets tab in the Wix Editor and drag it into place.
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If you want more control over what appears in your news feed, or if you want to include other types of content such as images or videos, you can use the Wix News Feed app. This app lets you manually add items to your news feed, and gives you a lot of options for how those items are displayed. To add this app to your site, just go to the App Market and search for “Wix News Feed.”
Once you’ve added the news feed widget or app to your site, all you need to do is populate it with content. For an RSS Feed widget, this means adding the URL of an RSS feed that you want to display.
For the Wix News Feed app, you’ll need to add each item manually. But either way, adding a news feed to your Wix site is a great way to keep your visitors up-to-date on what’s going on.
How Do I Add News Feed To Wix?
There are a few different ways that you can add a news feed onto your Wix website. The method that you choose will depend on where exactly on your website you would like the news feed displayed, as well as what type of information or content that you would like included within the news feed itself.
If you would like for your news feed appear in the sidebar of your website, then the easiest way to go about doing this would be by utilizing the RSS Feed Widget. This particular widget will automatically pull in content from an existing RSS feed and then display it accordingly on your website. In order to add this widget onto your sidebar, simply go into the Widgets tab within the Wix Editor and then drag it into place.
On the other hand, if you desire more control over what exactly appears in your news feed or if you would also like for other types of content such as images or videos to be included as well, then you can make use of the Wix News Feed app instead. This app allows for manual addition of items into your news feed while also giving various options as far as how those items are going to be displayed. To add this app onto your website, go into the App Market and search for “Wix News Feed”.
After adding either the news feed widget or app onto your website, all that is left to do is populate it with some actual content. For those using the RSS Feed widget, this simply entails adding in the URL of an RSSfeed that you want displayed on screen. As for those utilizing the Wix News Feed app however, each item will need be added manually one by one.
Conclusion
Adding a newsfeed onto your Wix website is a great way keep visitors updated on what is happening both on and off site. By using either an RSS Feed widget or Wix News Feed app (or both!), populating your newsfeed with content will be a breeze – giving you more time focus attention elsewhere!
