RSS feeds can be aggregated by other websites to show a quick synopsis of headlines and provide an accurate link to the publishing. This benefits both sites as it can provide a one stop view of various website publishing's on one page.
Configuring an RSS feed page related to several related sites in your niche can induce repeat visitors yo your site as well. You can use RSS feeds from Ezinearticles, Digg, Google or your favorite blog or newspaper.
A great Wordpress RSS feed plugin called MultiFeedSnap is available from Colin Caprani. This plugin enables you to show feeds from more than one source on a Wordpress page or post.
Installation of MultiFeedSnap Plugin:
- Download the Zip-Archive and extract all files into your wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Go into your WordPress administration page, click on Plugins and activate it
Usage of MultiFeedSnap Plugin:
Enter the following tags in your Wordpress post or page:
[feedsnap]feedurl[/feedsnap]
where feedurl is the url of the feed you wish displayed
To choose the number of posts you wish displayed from each feed (let's say 8), use:
[feedsnap, 8]feedurl[/feedsnap]
When the number of posts tag option is omitted, the default is used which is 5
Multiple sets of tags are possible, separated by whatever content (html, text, etc.) you wish.
MultiFeedSnap only replaces the [feedsnap] tags with the formatted feed data, and so all other
formatting is retained.
Demo links below:
http://www.colincaprani.com/links/related-feeds/
http://doublecolumn.buildanichestoretemplates.info/blog/?page_id=20
http://doublecolumn.buildanichestoretemplates.info/blog/?page_id=31
5 comments:
Excellent, I have been wondering how to do this.
TG
Works great. How did you get it to show only headlines on the demo?
You can open the multifeedsnap.php file and edit the variables. To not show the pubdate or description.
Change below:
$atext .= "<p><b><a href=\"$item[link]\" target=\"_blank\">$item[title]</a></b> <i>".$pubdate."</i><br>";
$atext .= html_entity_decode($item[description]); //.'<a href="'.$item['link'].'"> more...</a>'
to:
$atext .= "<p><b><a href=\"$item[link]\" target=\"_blank\">$item[title]</a></b><br>";
Awesome plugin, soggy. Install was a snap.
Thanks soggy! Another great WordPress plugin for me to try! I am still working on the last list of plugins! Thanks for the great stuff here!
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