# News Plugin 📰

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** pavilion, broken
**Created:** [January 30, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971 "2019-01-30T22:26:05Z")
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### Author: ![Thomas\_Rother](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thomas_rother/32/423597_2.png) [@Thomas\_Rother](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_Rother)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2023, 8:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/news-plugin/107971/153 "2023-12-08T08:40:57Z")

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Question for @angus on the [GitHub - paviliondev/discourse-news: Adds a news stream to your Discourse instance · GitHub](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-news) plugin (before digging into the code myself - I am not an UX specialist …)

I dont understand the required syntax in the entry fields for

_discourse news rss_ and _discourse news icon_

For the news icon, I played with the code examples from

> [@Introducing Font Awesome 5 and SVG icons](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-font-awesome-5-and-svg-icons/101643):
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> See also: [We're upgrading our icons to Font Awesome 6!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-upgrading-our-icons-to-font-awesome-6/325349) We will shortly merge into master a [branch](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/fontawesome5) that upgrades Discourse to Font Awesome 5.5.0 (the free version) and switches to using SVG icons instead of an icon font. This is a substantial change, with lots of benefits, and one significant change for developers. Here is a quick rundown of the changes: using SVG icons will provide crisper icons, better for accessibility and easier to customize, see [this Github article](https://blog.github.com/2016-02-22-delivering-octicons-with-svg/) for more details since…

but without success for “fa-newspaper” yet …

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