Quick Start

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 your desired webpage. Be sure to replace "{your platform domain}" in the following code with your church's base MP URL.

<script id="MPWidgets" src="https://{your platform domain}/widgets/dist/MPWidgets.js"></script>

Add the RSS Feed Widget to your church website by placing this snippet of code in the body of your chosen webpage.

<mpp-rss-reader publicationname="GeneralAnnouncements"></mpp-rss-reader>

Tip: While not mandatory, this snippet would typically be placed inside a <div> element with the class "container."

Widget Configuration

Required attributes are necessary for Widgets to function.

• Publication Name: Specifies the Publication that will populate this feed
  • Attribute: publicationname
  • Accepted Value: Source Name from desired Publication

<mpp-rss-reader publicationname="GeneralAnnouncements"></mpp-rss-reader>

Attributes must be included before the opening Widget tag is closed. An attribute's value should be wrapped in quote marks.

Platform Configuration

Any Publication is eligible to appear as an RSS Feed. A list of all Publications can be found in one of two places:

• Platform: Navigate to Communications > Publications.
• API: Append your church's URL with the Publications.svc endpoint (for example, https://{your church domain}/ministryplatformapi/publications.svc/).

Messages will appear in a configured RSS Feed when they meet the following criteria:

• Associated with the Publication via the interim Publication Messages Page.
• Today's date is equal to or greater than the Start Date. 
• Today's date is less than the Expire Date. 

Review your Publication and Message to make sure it appears in the RSS Feed Widget as expected.

• Ensure each Publication has the desired Name. This value should have no spaces. The Name is different than the Title, and may appear as the last field on the record.
• Ensure a Message is added to the Publication on the Messages sub-page. Pro tip: Be sure to set the "Template" field is set to True.
• Ensure that the Message in the Publication have a Start Date in the past and Status = 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 your desired page!