Thursday, September 25, 2008

Wordpress RSS Feed Plugin


RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is used to publish frequently updated web publishing such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video works in a standardized type web format. An RSS feed usually includes full or summarized text, plus meta data such as the publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit those publishers by letting them syndicate content quickly and automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from their favorite websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.

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

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent, I have been wondering how to do this.

TG

Anonymous said...

Works great. How did you get it to show only headlines on the demo?

soggy on September 25, 2008 at 11:03 AM said...

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>";

Anonymous said...

Awesome plugin, soggy. Install was a snap.

Anonymous said...

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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