January 5th, 2005
feedList Plugin
Comments on this post are open closed (too much spam) but you can should leave questions or talk about the plugin at the google group or if you have a problem/feature request you can submit a new issue at my issue tracker.
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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
If you feel weird about donating money you can always buy me a cheap item on my wish list :O) Hey, I’m not too proud to beg :O)
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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Is there any way to modify the CSS for the feeds showing up. I am still trying to fix a few overlapped text and text size.
AmazonOrigins.com
November 16th, 2008
Amazon, yes there is. First off you can always give your list UL a class and then give it and it’s children li’s styles. Or you can change the “before” parameter passed in from “<li>” by default to “<li class=’yourClass’>”
If you are using the random feed feature the UL that is wrapped around it’s output has the class of “randomFeed”
Bill
November 17th, 2008
I am having a problem showing images in feeds. The feeds are coming in find but if there is a image or video in the feed is tehre something that I am missing.
Cheers
P Ambrose
AM Fresh
AM FRESH
November 17th, 2008
The images in feeds can be tricky. It depends on what the HTML looks like that comes through. There is also a possibility that the processing of the feed contents is breaking the HTML. Please email me the feed URL at bill @ (this sites domain; rawlinson.us) and I’ll see if I can figure out what is going on.
Bill
November 17th, 2008
I cannot get this plugin to work. I must be doing something wrong. I have read the readme file, I installed the plugin and activated it, but nothing happens when I past in the code the from the readme.txt
I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but clearly something.
Sean Sweeney
November 22nd, 2008
I got the white screen problem that you mentioned. I didn’t have the other plugin that you mentioned might cause trouble. I removed the plugin from the plugins directory and my site is still a white page…?
Please help!
Paul
December 5th, 2008
Never mind… I think I accidentally edited the wrong file… now I’ve just got to figure out which one… D’oh!!
Paul
December 5th, 2008
Works like charm!!
http://www.nickredfern.com/?page_id=15
:D
Paul
December 5th, 2008
Unfortunately no luck. Maybe I am missing something…
Latest WP version
Plugin installed and activated per instructions
Add this to a new page
<–rss:rss_feed_url:=http://www.reformationtheology.com/index.xml,num_items:10,random:=false–;>
Update page
The page displays the line above, not the results…
Also, the snoopy PHP file is not included in the downloaded package at WP.
MoxyFruvous
October 5th, 2009
IM going to try this out
nonprofitdebtmanagement
October 15th, 2009
It is a fabulous plugin, it helped me a lot
sudheer999
November 7th, 2009
Hi – I am hoping to be able to use this plugin but the feed I am interested in doesn't show in my page. I can successfully view other feeds. I have upgraded the files mentioned in the troubleshooting section so thought I'd ask here. The URL to the feed I want to display is quite long (266 chars) could that be the problem? (The RSS feed link works ok I am sure if that..)
This is what I put in my Page:
BBC Environmental News
<ol>
<!–rss:rss_feed_url:=http://search.bbc.co.uk/click/p/1/ds/alt/t/News%2520feed%2520for%2520this%2520search/id/17231394112083125823935283296520000/sp/43f7b9247351c260d2bcf3bb46513a03/-/http%253a%252f%252fnewsapi%252ebbc%252eco%252euk%252ffeeds%252fsearch%252fnews%252bsport%252fenvironment,num_items:=10,random:=false–>
</ol>
Many Thanks for a good plugin!
A Shah
November 14th, 2009
Thanks!! Just what I was looking for.
john
November 16th, 2009
Love the plugin, feelist.php however in previous version and current version break under servers configured for PHP in strict “non-sloppy” mode. Line 37 uses <? a quick change to <?PHP fixes this.
Joel Hanger
April 17th, 2010
I am new to WP but I will need this plugin soon
Cosmo
April 18th, 2010
Great plugin – thanks! This solved a real problem I was having with trying to display a list of posts related to a page that every other way I tried was screwing with the Loop for the page…
However, my post titles show the ? mark in place of other punctuation and setting the encoding variable to “true” did not fix this. My blog's encoding is set to UTF-8. I found I can manually fix the problem by going to the post titles and replacing the punctuation used with the HTML code for the punctuation symbols, but I'd rather that this just run on auto-pilot – I don't want to have to police all the authors to be sure they know how to use HTML in the titles….
Any ideas how to fix this?
Trisha
April 27th, 2010
One more question – is there a way to use a variable IN the feed URL, so that I can dynamically change the feed URL based on a Custom Field for each post? I'm thinking so that the PHP call for feedList would look like this:
feedList('http://www.somedomain.com/category/<?PHP echo $variable; ?>/feed/');
Trisha
April 27th, 2010
Yes you can. You just have to determine if the variable you are looking for
exists (for instance if you are looking for a URL variable in the URL of the
page you are currently at). Then you can build the feedlist URL dynamically
using string concatenation.
I'm sorry I don't have time at the moment to show you some example code but
basically you'd just determine the variable and then build the URL right in
your template and then call feedList with the URL you built on the fly
Bill
Bill
April 27th, 2010
you may want to make sure you have the latest version of the plugin (2.61 or
62 I don't remember) then go into the plugin and tell it to not use magpie -
there is a new flag at the top of the feedlist.php file. it looks like
this: $useMagPie = true;
change that to
$useMagPie = false;
using the new parser may fix your problem.
Bill
Bill
April 27th, 2010
Thanks! That was enough clues for me to go on – thought I'd post what I did in case anyone else reading these comments is looking for the same solution, even though I have a really unique use for it.
I have a few static WP pages for products, and then some blog posts relating to the same product in a specific category. I need to display the most recent blog posts relating to the product on the product page, but as mentioned, trying to do a loop to display products from a category works, but it screwed up the Loop for the product page itself and then wouldn't display product information, hence the need for the FeedList plugin, which works brilliantly.
SO I added a Custom Field (called blog_catname) to each product page, with the value being the name of that category for blog posts related to that product.
I then created the PHP statement to build the URL like so:
$catname = get_post_meta($post->ID, blog_catname, true);
$feedname = 'http://www.domainname.com/'.$catname.'/feed/';
Then in the function feedList I used $feedname, like this:
feedList($feedname,10,false,false);
Works perfectly! Thank you again!
Trisha
April 27th, 2010
Thank you for your explanation. There really useful information.
travesti
May 2nd, 2010
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May 6th, 2010
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travesti
May 8th, 2010
EXAMPLES for plugin
deksamrong
May 15th, 2010
How to use easy for plugin?
deksamrong
May 15th, 2010
I tried your plugin but I keep getting the following error:
Warning: file_get_contents(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/content/a/n/t/anthonyv/html/omniai910/omnia/i910/wp-content/plugins/simple-feed-list/simple-feed-list.php on line 34
Warning: file_get_contents(http://images.apple.com/trailers/home/rss/newtrailers.rss): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/content/a/n/t/anthonyv/html/omniai910/omnia/i910/wp-content/plugins/simple-feed-list/simple-feed-list.php on line 34 sikiş izle
# Simple Feed List Plugin : The supplied file does not seem to be in the RSS format.
Here’s a link to the page:
fotoarsiv
May 16th, 2010
I tried your plugin but I keep getting the following error:
Warning: file_get_contents(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/content/a/n/t/anthonyv/html/omniai910/omnia/i910/wp-content/plugins/simple-feed-list/simple-feed-list.php on line 34
Warning: file_get_contents(http://images.apple.com/trailers/home/rss/newtrailers.rss): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/content/a/n/t/anthonyv/html/omniai910/omnia/i910/wp-content/plugins/simple-feed-list/simple-feed-list.php on line 34 sikiş izle
# Simple Feed List Plugin : The supplied file does not seem to be in the RSS format.resimler
Here’s a link to the page:
fotoarsiv
May 16th, 2010
I don't know what plugin the simple feedlist plugin is. Mine is called
feedlist and doesn't use the function your having problems with
Install feedlist and give it a try youncan install it from in the
admin interface or upload it yourself
Bill
Bill
May 16th, 2010
HOLY CRAP! Could you make this plugin any MORE DIFFICULT to feed an RSS from another website into my WordPress Blog???? I can't even FIND where to copy the URL of my RSS feed in this dang code!!!
Phil
June 9th, 2010
You don't have to touch the plugin to put your URL in. Read the
readme.txt file. There are examples in it you can copy and paste into
your theme or blog post/page that you just have to edit to reflect
your feed URL.
Thousands of people (surprising to me) use this plugin but to be
honest I just wrote it for my needs and I just give it away. There are
other RSS plugins out there if this one is insufficient I sugges you
check out the wordpress plugin site for other options.
Bill
June 9th, 2010
Phil you are probably the slimeball type that wouldn't donate anything if it did work anyways.
I can't believe Bill was so nice in his response after what you puked out for a comment.
Phils_an_Idiot
June 23rd, 2010
Dude! YOU try going through four or five plugins that are supposed to be “easy” solutions for RSS feed readers in a WP site and have to read through dense and sometimes incomplete documentation for seven hours straight trying to find the appropriate solution.
As far as the donations, I WILLINGLY donate to programmers who develop solutions I use… so, accuse all you want… besides since I didn't see where YOU contributed to the cause, I don't think I have too many problems… and, I found a solution that was MUCh easier to configure… no thanks to Bill or you – whose name should be the “town idiot” instead!
It wouldn't surprise me if your name was Rick
Phil
June 23rd, 2010
Seriously, take your pissing match elsewhere. There are 385 comments on this post and you, Phil, are the only one who has been so completely disappointed. If you don't like the plugin don't use it. If you can't read the readme.txt that isn't my problem. If it is too complicated for you – again that isn't my problem. I don't care if anyone uses the plugin and I certainly don't need you to come over here bitching without offering any constructive criticism.
Bill
June 23rd, 2010
I was trying to use WP-FeedList to add Google News RSS to a blog and its not working…. Can you help?
Akif
July 13th, 2010
Yes – this is a little bit tricky but not too bad. What you'll want to do is edit the feedlist.php file (go to plugins, pick edit under “feedList”)
In that file that pops up you'll see a line that says
$useMagPie = true;
change that to
$useMagPie = false;
and you should be able to get the Google news feeds to work properly.
Bill
July 13th, 2010
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September 1st, 2010
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September 2nd, 2010