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