{"id":15922,"date":"2021-12-28T17:40:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T17:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=15922"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:38:36","slug":"rss-via-shortcode-to-page-post-plugin-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/rss-via-shortcode-to-page-post-plugin-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS Via Shortcode to Page &#038; Post plugin removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Hm35SmqijM\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/rss-via-shortcode-on-page-post\/\">RSS Via Shortcode for Page &amp; Post<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;RSS Via Shortcode for Page &amp; Post&#8221; &#8212; Plugin Directory\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/rss-via-shortcode-on-page-post\/embed\/#?secret=4PSh6O55Xk#?secret=Hm35SmqijM\" data-secret=\"Hm35SmqijM\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using this plugin on several pages on this site for a while. Recently I&#8217;ve seen errors on some of the pages and occasionally on other posts pointing to this plugin. I checked and it has not been updated for 7 years, so decided to pull the plug.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than find a new plugin I just changed the pages to use the new Blocks editor and add feeds using some blocks.<\/p>\n<p>For some I used the <a href=\"https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/display-remote-posts-block\/\">Display Remote Posts Block \u2013 WordPress plugin<\/a>. This I discovered &amp; installed through the add block interface &amp; found later that it has installed a plugin.\u00a0On others I used the built in RSS &amp; podcast player blocks. All three seem to do the job.<\/p>\n<p>Examples: <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/portfolio\/scotedublogs\/\">RSS block<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/portfolio\/edutalk\/\">Podcast Block<\/a>\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/ds106\/\">Display Remote Posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am not ready for the Block editor full time on this blog. I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/blocks\/\">exploring it a little<\/a> on Glow Blogs. But I&#8217;ve got a few things here that are incompatible (eg. Post Kinds plugin) and for my blog the classic editor, is usually more than enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RSS Via Shortcode for Page &amp; Post I&#8217;ve been using this plugin on several pages on this site for a while. Recently I&#8217;ve seen errors on some of the pages and occasionally on other posts pointing to this plugin. I checked and it has not been updated for 7 years, so decided to pull the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[660],"tags":[10,1433,1784,222,776,48],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-micro","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-feeds","9":"tag-glow-blogs","10":"tag-glowblogs","11":"tag-gutenberg","12":"tag-rss","13":"kind-note","15":"h-entry","16":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-48O","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15923,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922\/revisions\/15923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15922"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=15922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}