WELS version of RSS-Feed-Builder

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The tool below will help you format a WELS feed's display with the information you want to use on your web site. All you need to do is select the WELS feed for the RSS source, and select the desired options below.

First, be sure to preview the feed to verify the content and format. Once the content is displayed how you like, just use the generate javascript button to get your code. Once the content looks okay, move on to our style tool to make it pretty.

Feed Choose the type of service and then the feed you want to use





Show channel? (yes/no/title) Display information about the publisher of the feed (yes=show the title and description; title= display title only, no=do not display anything)
yes title no

Number of items to display. Enter the number of items to be displayed (enter 0 to show all available)

Show/Hide item descriptions? How much? (0=no descriptions; 1=show full description text; n>1 = display first n characters of description; n=-1 do not link item title, just display item contents)

Use HTML in item display? ("yes" = use HTML from feed and the full item descriptions will be used, ignoring any character limit set above; "no" = output is text-only formatted by CSS; "preserve paragraphs" = no HTML but convert all RETURN/linefeeds to <br> to preserve paragraph breaks)
yes no preserve paragraphs only

Show item posting date? (yes/no) Display the date the item was added to the feed.
yes no

Target links in the new window? (n="no, links open the same page", y="yes, open links in a new window", "xxxx" = open links in a frame named 'xxxx', 'popup' = use a JavaScript function popupfeed() to open in new window)

UTF-8 Character Encoding (advanced users)
use UTF-8 character encoding

Builder Options Help
  1. Choose the desired RSS feed that you'd like to display on your web page. Follow through with the rest of the fields trying various options...
  2. Show channel? (that's where the WELS header comes from)
  3. Number of items to display. (Our default setting displays only 1, but you could put 5 so that you'd diplay the last 5 posted).
  4. Show/Hide item descriptions? (The current setting is 100>1 but you could say 0 so that no description displays. The description actually comes from the WELS.net content provider typing the info into the "summary box" provided to them. If they don't type anything there, you won't see anything.)
  5. Use HTML in item display? (It is set to no because this forces the feed to display text without mark up).
  6. Show item posting date? (The date displays when set to "yes" to show how current the information is.)
  7. UTF-8 character Encoding (This box may be checked the box because we comply.)
  8. Hit the "Preview" button to display your results. You can keep on changing the info to see how it affects your end result.
  9. When you like what you see, hit the "Generate JavaScript" button and it will create the script for you to copy.
  10. Then, paste the code into your own web page in whatever location that best suits your page layout.