Configuring RSS Feeds
Get the RSS Feeds widget up and running to share important announcements with your church directly on your website.
The RSS Feed widget is a simple, high-impact addition to your church's website. See the Quick Start Guide to get it up and running in just a few steps.
If the shared script hasn't been added to your website, add it to the appropriate webpage, replacing "YOUR-BASE-MP-URL" with the base URL with your base MinistryPlatform URL.
<script id="MPWidgets" src="https://YOUR-BASE-MP-URL.com/widgets/dist/MPWidgets.js"></script>Create or identify a page on your website where you want to display the widget. To add this widget to your church website, add the code you generate in the Widget Configurator widget (with the required attributes) in the body of your chosen website page.
Widget Configuration
Required Attributes
- Publication Name
- This specifies the publication that will populate this feed.
- Attribute: publicationname
- Valid Value: Value from the Name field on the publication record (no spaces)
- Example:
publicationname="PrayerDevotion"
Configure Your Widget
- Go to your Widgets Library by appending "/widgets" to your system domain. For example,
https://example-church.ministryplatform.net/widgets. - Click the Navigate to... drop-down menu, and select Widget Configurator.
- Select the widget you want to configure, then customize your widget.
- Click Try it Out to see what your widget will look like!
- Copy the generated code from the Embed Code box.
- Add the code to the designated page on your website.
Platform Configuration
Any publication can display as an RSS feed. You can find a list of all publications in one of two places:
- Platform: In the navigation menu, click .
- API: Add the publications.svc endpoint to your church's (for example,
https://yourchurch.com/ministryplatformapi/publications.svc/).
Messages will display in a configured RSS feed when they meet the following criteria:
- The message is associated with the publication through the page.
- The start date is today's date or later.
- Today's date is before the expire date.
Review your publication and message to make sure it displays in the RSS Feed widget as expected.
- Ensure each publication has the name you want to display. Do not include spaces in the publication name. The name is different than the title, and may display as the last field on the record.
- Ensure you add a message to the publication on the Messages tab. Tip: Be sure the Template field is set to Yes.
- Ensure that the message in the publication has a start date in the past and a status of Sent.
- Ensure that the message has an end date in the future.
Customization
Each RSS Feed widget displays the content stream for a single publication. Want to include more than one publication? Add more RSS Feed widgets to the page you want.