Syndicate without creating a new post

  • Is there a way to pull in posts from Site B and have them displayed/embedded within Site A without having to use a plugin that creates a new post on Site A?

    I have several WordPress installs for websites for our community services, but post all news announcements on one main site. I would like to embed within the community site-specific news post of interest to them while maintaining the site’s theme and navigation.

    Is there a plugin or method where a category-specific RSS feed can be embedded into a site’s page and when a user clicks on the link it displays the content on that same page and doesn’t redirect to the news site?

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • There is a core RSS widget, and a core RSS block. You can supply a category feed URL to either one.
    However, the links are normal links that will navigate to that post.

    There are a lot of plugins that do various things with RSS feeds.

    Thread Starter panther_26

    (@panther_26)

    Thanks Joy. I have RSS feeds already working from the news site. I was hoping to make the news post feel as if it was part of the community site by displaying the post within a page template using that site’s theme.

    I know a lot of RSS syndicators out there are able to duplicate the post into the second WordPress site, but I don’t want a ton of copies taking up space in each WP build.

    An ideal solution would be to show the RSS feed on the community site’s page and when a link is clicked instead of going to the news site’s URL it brings in the content of the post and displays it where the feed was on the community site. (Note: I have the same plugins installed on all sites, so any shortcodes in the post body should work on the alternate sites.)

    I was hoping to make the news post feel as if it was part of the community site by displaying the post within a page template using that site’s theme.

    That implies a separate page. You could use an iframe of the other site, but it won’t look like this site. Or you could use the REST API to get the content and show it in something in the current page. You would need to find a plugin to do this or write it.

    I have the same plugins installed on all sites, so any shortcodes in the post body should work on the alternate sites.

    You should get the content with expanded shortcodes, since they would only render correctly on the site they were written on.

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