Step-by-step guide to using the Vitextra RSS Reader in Microsoft Teams: publishing the app from the SharePoint App Catalog, adding it as a tab in a channel with its own feeds, adding it as a personal app, saving the default configuration that the personal app uses for everybody, pinning it with an app setup policy, and what to check if the feeds do not appear.
Reference for how the Vitextra RSS Reader web part handles feeds: supported RSS and Atom formats and the elements it reads (images, authors, categories, dates), how several sources are merged and ordered, what happens to a feed that cannot be loaded, the Newest first, Oldest first and By source sort orders, the automatic refresh interval and the browser cache that makes the web part open instantly.
Step-by-step guide to adding the Vitextra RSS Reader web part to a SharePoint Online page and configuring it: adding feed sources with display names and order, choosing the Compact, Newsletter or Cards layout, the number of items, images, source tabs, categories and search, sort order and automatic refresh, saving a default configuration for the Microsoft Teams personal app, and fixing the common messages.
Reference on data handling in the Vitextra RSS Reader web part: why feeds are downloaded by the Vitextra feed service instead of the browser, exactly what the request contains, which permissions the solution needs (none), where the configuration is stored and who can read it, what is kept in the browser, how untrusted feed content is rendered safely, the hosts to allow on the network and recommendations for choosing feeds.
Why modern SharePoint Online pages have no RSS web part, what the classic RSS Viewer did, and a comparison of the ways to show external RSS feeds on a modern page: a Power Automate flow into a list, the Embed web part with a third-party widget, a custom SPFx web part and the Vitextra RSS Reader - with the pros, cons and effort of each.
Reference for the appearance options of the Vitextra RSS Reader web part: what the Compact, Newsletter and Cards layouts show and where each fits, images and how they are picked from a feed, the Items Shown limit, source tabs, category tags and the search box, the web part title, and how the web part follows the SharePoint theme, dark mode, the site font and full-width sections.
Overview of the Vitextra RSS Reader web part for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams: aggregating several RSS feeds in one place, Compact, Newsletter and Cards layouts, source tabs, category and search filters, sorting, automatic refresh, images, Teams tabs and personal app, how feeds are loaded and what the web part needs.