18th June 2007

6 Steps to Creating a Google Reader RSS Widget in WordPress

Want to add an Google Reader Feed to WordPress? It only takes a few minutes and the results are automatic.

6 Steps to Creating a Google Reader RSS Widget in WordPress
1. Setup your RSS feeds in Google Reader.
2. Assign your feed(s) to a folder in Google Reader
3. Set the Folder as Public so Google will create an RSS feed for this folder.
4. Click on “add a clip to your site”. This creates the Javascript code for the RSS feed.
5. Customize the Javascript code and copy the code from the script window.
6. Create a new Text Widget in WordPress and paste the code in the window.

Time to view your site and make any changes if necessary. Could it get any easier than that to add live content to your web site?

Google Reader - Customize Code Details

Here is how you customize the Google code to fit your website theme:

Google Reader - Customize Steps

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This entry was posted on Monday, June 18th, 2007 at 8:35 pm and is filed under google tools, Infopreneur Sites, RSS. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  1. 1 On January 13th, 2008, A. Mercer UNITED STATES said:

    What do you do when you “customize” the code before putting it in the text widget?

  2. 2 On January 15th, 2008, admin UNITED STATES said:

    @A.Mercer - see the image above. That should help out. I like to change the title, color, and number of items displayed.

    S

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