=== RSS Retriever ===
Contributors: tjtaylor
Donate link: http://travistaylor.com/wp-rss-retriever-demo/
Tags: rss, rss retriever, wp rss retriever, rss aggregator, rss feed, rss fetch feed, rss fetch, fetch feed
Requires at least: 2.8
Tested up to: 4.1
Stable tag: 1.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
A simple, lightweight RSS aggregator plugin which uses shortcode to fetch and display an RSS feed.
== Description ==
This plugin fetchs an RSS feed and displays it in an unordered list using shortcode.
Features:
- Fetch as many RSS feeds as you want
- Display the RSS feed wherever you want using shortcode
- Control whether to display the entire RSS feeds content or just an excerpt
- Control how many words display in the excerpt
- Control whether it has a Read more link or not
- Control whether links open in a new window or not
- Simple, lightweight, and fast
- Easy to setup
- *NEW* Fetch thumbnail or first image
- *NEW* Control size of thumbnail
- *NEW* Set cache time (in seconds)
Live Demo:
http://travistaylor.com/wp-rss-retriever-demo/
Example:
[wp_rss_retriever url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch/" items="10" excerpt="50" read_more="true" new_window="true" thumbnail="200" cache="7200"]
Properties:
- url - The url of the feed you wish to fetch from
- items - Number of items from the feed you wish to fetch (Default is 10)
- excerpt - How many words you want to display for each item (Default is 0 or infinite)
- read_more - Whether to display a read more link or not (true or false, defaults to true)
- new_window - Whether to open the title link and read more link in a new window (true or false, defaults to true)
- thumbnail - Whether or not you want to display a thumbnail, and if so, what size you want it to be(true or false, defaults to true. Inserting a number will change the size, default is 150)
- cache - How long you want the feed to cache the results in seconds (Default is 43200)
Note: If you would like to see more features for the plugin, let me know.
== Installation ==
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
1. Upload `wp-rss-retriever.zip` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Unzip the file
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
4. Use the shortcode [wp_rss_retriever] anywhere in your content
== Changelog ==
= 1.0 =
* Initial release
= 1.0.1 =
* Fixes bug where excerpt included html and broken images
= 1.0.2 =
* Pulls images & html in when excerpt is not enabled
= 1.1 =
* Fixed several bugs
* Fetch thumbnail or first image
* Control size of thumbnail
* Set cache time (in seconds)
* Now includes small CSS file, required for thumbnail support