January 5th, 2005
Categorized under: Wordpress Plugins

feedList Plugin

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  • feedList 2.23 – for version of wordpress 1.5+,2.x (updated 07 Jul 2009)

I have discontinued rssLinkList and now only support feedList. If you have wordpress 1.5+ you can use the older rssLInkList plugin but feedList is better. First off installation is much easier and it supports ATOM and RSS feeds (hence the name change) whereas rssLinkList only supports, you guessed it, RSS feeds. It is the version I am currently using on this site. The stuff rssLinkList did is done and it works better in feedList because I fixed some bugs during the conversion (bugs that were never fixed in rssLinkedList

One major change other than the support for ATOM feeds is that you no longer need a cache directory. Wordpress, with its built in MAGPIE support, stores the cache internally so you don’t need to manage it anymore. Wordpress stores the cache in the Database.

The download (follow the corresponding link above) is a zip file and contains the plugin file(s) and a readme.txt file. Please, pretty please, read that file. The readme.txt file explains how to install the plugin (pretty simple for both) and explains what all the different options are for and what they will do. Over the months that this plugin has existed it’s functionality and flexibility has expanded ALOT so there are a bunch of settings to pay attention to.

If you are upgrading from rssLinkList to feedList – don’t worry, your old feed calls will still work. There are just now some new “wrapper” methods that called “feedList” to make for a more seemless experince for new users. You can use either the old function name or the new one.

I took down most of the “support text” in this blog post so that I don’t have to maintain it both here and in the readme.txt file. Please make sure you read that file before you ask for help. I help everyone that asks but most of the time the solution is in the readme.txt file. Thanks

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If you have a question or a feature request please check the feedList FAQ first.

NOTE
I have setup a google group at http://groups.google.com/group/wp-feedlist for all future comments/suggestions/questions about feedList/rssLinkList. More importantly I have a issue tracker setup at http://code.google.com/p/wp-feedlist/issues/list where you can report problems and request new features. Please take advantage of these new tools to help make feedList everything you need it to be.

READ THIS
If, for some reason, your feed isn’t showing, please check the troubleshooting section of the readme.txt file! It is the last section of the file and may very well fix your problem. Thanks

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  • Fantastc, I added you plugin and it works perfectly.
    I had tried and failed with a couple of others - constant code errors, but this one was so easy.
    Only thing is my site loads a bit slower than before - is this totally normal? Can it be fixed?
    I changed my cache folder to "777", but no noticable effect.
    Any Ideas?
  • Chris,
    I'm glad it worked so well for you! You are, as far as I know, the first person to try it other than me. I guess your page will load a touch slower than normal - especially when it is refreshing the cache by actually fetching the remote RSS feed. However, when it reads from the cache the speed difference shouldn't be too noticable - if at all. I use it in two places on my blog and I don't really notice a speed difference.

    Make sure your cache directory is getting written too. You should have one file in there for each distinct RSS feed you are publishing on your page. If you don't then you may need to muck with the configuration settings some more until you start seeing the cache files in place.
  • dg
    hey sorry for the stupid question but how do you pass the paremeters exactly? there is an example in rssLinkList.php but what is the full syntax to drop this into a template? i.e. help out the php clueless with the opening and closing php tag.

    other wordpress features and plugins sometimes pass parameters inside the () of the function call... sorry to be confusing but what i mean is can you add other parameters right next to the url as with you simple example on this page, or do you have to list everything out, as is illustrated in the plugin. if the latter, please tell us how to open and close, thanks.

    incidentally i couldn't get it to (blank output) parse a Yahoo News search feed (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/001001....), but it did fine with WordPress RSS 2.0 feed.
  • I'm not entirely sure what your asking. But I presume what you want to know is how to call the function if you are passing every possible parameter. So, here goes:

    rssLinkList("http://some.rss.url",10,true,true,"-- ","
    ","—");

    this calls for a feed at http://some.rss.url and will display, at most, ten items, with their descriptions and in random order. Each item will be preceeded by two dashes and a blank space and each will be followed by a carriage return (br tag). Finally, there will be a long dash that separates the item title from its' description.

    Hopefully that helps.
  • dg
    yes that helps! i'd suggest adding that example with the parameters (perhaps replacing the one that's there currently ... still not sure how that is to be used) to the documentation inside the file.

    great work:>O)
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