📰 Bowls News Feed

The News Feed widget on the Dashboard aggregates the latest news from UK and international bowls organisations — displayed as a horizontal card grid, all in one place.

Switching it on: news is fetched from other websites, so it only runs once it is ticked in Settings → Club Identity → Online services (or the Online Services step of the setup wizard). Until then the dashboard shows a short note in its place.

Built-in sources

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bowls England  ·  🌍 World Bowls  ·  Bowls Development Alliance
• 👑 BCGBA  ·  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Bowls Scotland  ·  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales Bowls  ·  🇮🇪 Bowls Ireland
• 📺 BBC Sport Bowls
• ⭐ Custom feed — your county association or any RSS URL

⚙ Display settings

Click ⚙ Display to open the display panel — settings are saved per user:

• Cards per row — 1 to 6 cards across the page
• Articles to show — 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 or 24 articles at once
• Summary lines — 0 (title only) to 5 lines of article summary shown on each card
• Image size — None, Small (80px), Medium (140px), or Large (200px)

When an article has no image, the source’s own emoji badge is shown instead. Nothing is fetched from any other service to draw it.

📡 Sources

Click 📡 Sources to choose which feeds appear, add a custom RSS feed, and set the cache interval (how often feeds are re-fetched — default 3 hours).

Using the feed

• Click any card to expand it and see the full excerpt plus a Read article link
• Use the source filter tabs to see one source at a time
• Click 🔄 Refresh to clear the cache and re-fetch all feeds immediately

Common questions

A source is showing an error — what does that mean?

The remote RSS feed may be temporarily offline or its URL may have changed. Other sources still load normally. Click 🔄 Refresh — if the error persists, check whether the source website is still running.

How do I add my county association's news?

Click 📡 Sources, paste the RSS feed URL in the Custom Feed field (most WordPress sites publish their feed at /feed/ appended to their homepage), tick Enable, and click Save & Refresh.

Can I hide the news widget entirely?

Yes — click ☰ Sections in the dashboard toolbar and uncheck Bowls News. This preference is saved per user.

Why do some cards show a logo instead of a photo?

If an article does not include an image, Pavilion automatically shows the publishing website’s logo (favicon) centred on the card so every card looks consistent.