Pieter Bos

<p>On websites we develop for clients we always add this widget to their WordPress Dashboard to keep them informed on general updates regarding their websites. We thought it would be a handy tool for other developers, so we turned the widget into a plugin.</p>
<p>The default settings are:</p>
<ul>
<li>the standard title of the widget box is “Recent Updates”</li>
<li>as we needed a default feed URL we use the feed of WP TIPS, one of our own websites</li>
<li>the default number of RSS items is 3</li>
<li>do not open link in new tab (since 2014.07.27)</li>
<li>yellow background color of the widget (<code>#FFFF99</code>)</li>
</ul>
<p>We have decided to only support this plugin through <a href="https://github.com/senlin/so-dashboard-feed-widget/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>. Therefore, if you have any questions, need help and/or want to make a feature request, please open an issue over at Github. You can also browse through open and closed issues to find what you are looking for and perhaps even help others.</p>


Dashboard Feed Widget

The Dashboard Feed Widget shows the latest Posts from a site of your choice in the top of the WordPress Dashboard.

GrandSlambert

<p>Replacement for the built in RSS widget that adds an optional link target, shortcode, and page conditionals.</p>
<h4>Usage Notice</h4>
<p>This plugin does not, and cannot replace the existing RSS Widget. Once you install, activate, and configure this plugin you must go to your Widgets page and either replace existing RSS widgets with the new widget, or add new Better RSS Widgets.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add title or post tags to the feed URL in the shortcode.</li>
<li>Excerpt length can be set in both the widget and the shortcode.</li>
<li>Limit the number of characters to display for the title of the post.</li>
<li>Add text or html before the list of posts on widgets.</li>
<li>Shortcode to allow embedding RSS feeds into posts and pages.</li>
<li>Choose whether to cache the RSS feed and set the cache duration per feed, defaults to 3600 seconds (1 hour).</li>
<li>Option to display the post time.</li>
<li>Allows multiple widgets each with different settings.</li>
<li>Adds the link target to both the RSS Title and all articles.</li>
<li>Default settings screen allows you to decide what defaults will appear when adding a new widget.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<p>This plugin includes the following translations. Translations listed with no translator were created by the plugin developer using Google Translate. If you can improve these, you can get your name listed here!</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
</ul>


Better RSS Widget

Replacement for the built in RSS widget that adds an optional link target, shortcode, and page conditionals.

Dashboard Feed Widget vs Better RSS Widget