March 31st, 2008
Categorized under: ThisSite, Wordpress Plugins, php

FeedList plugin Update

I tis a little unusual that I am writing a second blog post about my feedList plugin but I think this one change warrants a second posting just so I know that people are aware of the change.

If you aren’t aware feedList is a plugin I wrote for the wordpress blogging platform that lets you pull other feeds (either atom or rss) into your blog’s pages, posts, and sidebar. It is pretty flexible and well tested and is widely used around the wordpress blog-o-sphere.

The reason for this post though is that I have moved where I was hosting the plugin from google’s code site to the wordpress plugin database. By doing this users will be notified from within their blogs administrative interface when the plugin is updated. However, I messed up a little while adding the plugin to the site so the name changed from Feed List to feedList. This update doesn’t really have any effect on the code but rather, just making the end users lives easier when they want to update.

Unfortunately, due to my renaming mistake, you need to download and update your copy manually one time before you get the benefit of this new feature built into wordpress 2.5 that lets you update the plugin via single link click within the administrative interface.

In order to download the plugin just visit this page, then click on the download button. It will come down as a zip file. To install it just copy the feedlist.php file up to your wordpress plugins directory. Your old feedlist file might be called “feedList.php” (notice the capital “L”) please delete it before you upload this latest version. Then go into your wordpress admin and make sure the FeedList plugin is activated. I’m really sorry for the inconvienence but hopefully this will make your life easier in the future.

I would have just fixed it in the first place but almost immediately after I uploaded the plugin there it was downloaded by 13 different people. Since they were already using this new system, and had found the plugin via that page I figured it wouldn’t be fair to change it on them immediately.

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Comments

  1. Hi,

    I appreciate your feedlist very much! I just upgraded to wordpress 2.5 and now the feedlist does not seem to work anymore. I have re-installed the latest version of feedlists but still it does not seems to work in wordpress 2.5.

    Could you help me out? Thank you very much!

    Best regards,
    Tom


    Tom
    April 12th, 2008

  2. Tom, I will need to know more about what problems you are having. I use feed list all over this site and it runs 2.5


    Bill
    April 12th, 2008

  3. Hello Bill. The plugin are really great, but we have many troubles with the utf and all this. I try to put the encoding=true but problems continous. Please try to make this work… maybe you can find an answer. Thanks.


    Jan
    April 19th, 2008

  4. If you try with these links maybe you can have a solution: http://www.clarin.com/diario/hoy/um/sumariorss.xml


    Jan
    April 19th, 2008

  5. Can you put something like that in the Feedlist code: (label for=”kbrss-utf-”>Convert feed to UTF-8? </label)


    Jan
    April 21st, 2008

  6. Jan, I really haven’t had any time to think about the encoding problem.

    The suggested work around currently is to use feedburner – basically let it consume the feed and create a new feed for you – then have feedList point to the new feedburner feed. I don’t really know how feedburner works (I’ve never used it) but that is how most people seem to get around this issue for now.

    Bill


    Bill
    April 21st, 2008

  7. Thanks Bill. But your feedlist are best when you will have news in the posts or pages from another sites. But the problem are the UTF-8 encoding. I try many ways and was impossible to fix that. Always the strange symbols attack again. If you see the code of kb Advanced RSS Widget you can find at that code have a simple line to convert the utf.
    Please, ¿Can you make that and updated the plugin? Will be great to all the Spanish blogs ’cause the accents.
    Have a nice day.
    Jan.


    Jan
    April 21st, 2008

  8. Hey I installed and got the feedlist plugin working, however when I navigate away from the page I get an error that says “Cannot remove handler”.

    I have removed and re-installed the plugin to no avail.

    Any assistance appreciated.

    Thanks


    Jez
    May 10th, 2008

  9. Hi, i get the following error on my “Featured Feeds” page about 30 % of the time. If i refresh then it will be OK but this error has started since about 2.5 of WP.

    I really love the plugin and want to keep using it.

    Thanks.

    Neil

    Warning: array_map() [function.array-map]: The first argument, ‘$map_attrs’, should be either NULL or a valid callback in /home/fz22gq/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/rss.php on line 175

    Warning: join() [function.join]: Bad arguments. in /home/fz22gq/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/rss.php on line 175

    Warning: array_map() [function.array-map]: The first argument, ‘$map_attrs’, should be either NULL or a valid callback in /home/fz22gq/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/rss.php on line 175

    Warning: join() [function.join]: Bad arguments. in /home/fz22gq/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/rss.php on line 175


    Neil Duckett
    May 15th, 2008

  10. i just installed feedlist on a brand new wp site (2.5.1) and in the backend, when i activate it, it doesn’t work – it tells me:

    “There was a problem initializing the feedlist plugin. Make sure the file feedlist.php is directly under your wp-content/plugins directory and not a subdirectory.”

    (feedlist is definitely in the /plug-ins directory — alongside hello.php).

    any ideas? I’d love for this to work!!


    altoid
    July 14th, 2008

  11. thanks so much for the quick fix to my problem! (answer was: create folder called “feedlist” inside “plugins” – then put feedlist.php inside /feedlist


    altoid
    July 14th, 2008

  12. I am trying to use the plugin. It works fine if the feed only has text in the feed but if there is images in the incoming feeds only show code instead of the image? Is there something that I am doing wrong or am I missing something.
    Cheers
    P Ambrose
    AM Fresh
    http://amfresh.ca


    pambrose
    April 10th, 2009

  13. Hi,

    I can’t make this work! Is there a compatibility issue with your code and feedburner?

    “http://feeds.feedburner.com/telstra-announcements?format=xml”,
    “num_items”=>3,
    “show_description”=>false,
    “new_window”=>true

    )
    );
    ?>


    Matt
    August 2nd, 2009

  14. I've activated the feedlist in WordPress, but what now? How do create a page on my blog that shows data being received from the world at large? and how can I customize that data to a specific keyword, so that I get data relevant to the blog? I need a simple step by step procedure to do this. Does this exist? any help with this will be much appreciated. Please email me at mailto@deliveredonline.com, with subject heading 'wordpress rss'.
    Thanks a million,

    Russell


    russelleaton
    February 11th, 2010

  15. How do I create a page on my blog to receive the RSS info? Please email me: mailto@deliveredonline.com
    Thanks, Russell


    russelleaton
    February 11th, 2010

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