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Show any RSS Feed Updates with the WordPress RSS Feed Reader!

by Alex Moss

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The RSS Feed Reader WordPress Plugin lets you simply output any RSS feed as HTML into your WordPress blog page, post or sidebar widget!

Download and

Also, take a look at our Twitter Feed Plugin!

Installation:

Download the plugin direct from the Plugin Page at WordPress.
Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin
Insert the shortcode!

How & Where to Enter the Shortcode:

To insert the Twitter feed, simply enter the following shortcode within a page, post or text widget:

[rss-feed url="http://url.to/feed.rss"]

Settings:

You have to insert these values to make sure the feed is set up for you:

Option

Default

Options

Comments

url

http://pleer.co.uk/feed

N/A

The URL location of the RSS feed you want to output

num

5

any integer

The number of tweets to display. This is obviously limited to the amount of items in the RSS feed itself

scrape

no

yes/no

Some people show difficulties when RSS items are output. Turn to yes to see is this resolves the issue

Options:

There are a few attributes that you can use to change the way the twitter feed outputs within WordPress:

Option

Default

Options/
Examples

Comments

links

yes

yes/no

All the items link to the target URL of the item itself. To disable, switch this to “no”

desc

no

yes/no

Turning this on also outputs whatever is in the item’s description. Use this with caution as it may output a lot of data!

pubdate

yes

yes/no

This outputs the date of publication of the item.

conditional

no

yes/no

Have a choice of 01 January 2010 or xx minutes/hours/days ago

phptime

j F Y

j F Y \a\t h:ia

The PHP date format to output. More formats can be found here

Customisation & Styling:

There are a few attributes that you can use to customise the look and feel of the tweets:

Option

Default

Options/
Examples

Comments

divid

N/A

twitter-feed

If a value is entered, the whole plugin will be surrounded by a DIV with the ID you choose

ulclass

N/A

twitter-updates

The CSS class you want to give to the <ul> the tweets are listed within

liclass

N/A

The CSS class you want to give to each <li> each tweet is listed within

pubtext

“on “

“published on ”
“written on “

Prefix text to go before the time (only used when conditional=”no”)

linklove

yes

yes/no

Provides a link to this page!

All links use the rel=”external nofollow” tag. You can also download my rel=”external” in a New Window WordPress plugin!

Here’s an example of the RSS Feed Reader being implemented with some attributes used:

[rss-feed url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ManchesterSeo" num=3 links="no" ]

Which will output this:

[rss-feed url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ManchesterSeo" num=3 links="no"]

Alex is a partner at Pleer. He has worked in SEO for over 5 years and has been messing with HTML since he was 13. Alex is known mostly for his WordPress plugins, and contributes to Econsultancy, 123Reg, State of Search and many more.

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