RSS Just Better plugin 0.5 released
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== Description ==
Requires at least: wp 2.8
Tested up to: wp 3.2.1
Stable tag: 0.5
It displays a list of feed items from a given feed URL. You can select the number of displayable items, whether you want publication date, time and/or excerpt (and how many chars of it). The user can choose to have a ordered (numbered) or unordered (bullet-point) list and to open a new windows or not, when clicking on the linked items.
1. The easiest way is: from Plugins of your wordpress administration, select “Add new”, search for “RSS just better” into the search text-box then click on ‘Install’ (on the right) when prompted with this plugin
OR
you can daownload this plugin from [wordpress repository](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/RSS-just-better/), unzip it (a directory with 2 files will be extracted) and upload it to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory of your wordpress
3. Activate the plugin through the Plugins->Installed Plugins menu in your WordPress administration
4. Use it! (see Usage in Other Notes)
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
= Why the heck would I need/want it?
= It provides the latest items of any rss or atom feed on the Internet: can you imagine what boost of traffic it can bring to your blog?
Let’s pretend you write about volleyball, knitting or lactose-intolerance. You just need to enter the relevant feed in the feed URL and wait for it to display the latest items on your subject.
= Hey, I cannot find any configuration page in ‘Settings’! How do I use it?
= As a widget, you drag & drop the widget to any widget-ready area of your theme; open and complete the widget form and click on the ‘Save’ button. Close the widget if you want. Check your wp site now.
As a shortcode, choose the post or page you want your feed items to be displayed into, selecte HTML mode (IMPORTANT!) – and enter your shortcode as explained in Usage (in Other Notes).
= 0.5 =
* Added attribute “filter” to include or exclude given words
* Changed footer’s author link to the plugin homepage
* Set attribute Charex default value to 150 so that if excerpt is true, an excerpt is automatically displayed (for 150 chars).
* Changed attribute num default value to 5
* Enclosed shortcode in a class (it seems attribute feed collided with wordpress since 3.2)
= 0.4 =
* Made Date & Time formats (when selected) as those defined in wordpress settings page
* Made linkable title opening in new/same window according to widget selection
* Added attributed “title” and “link” to shortcodes too
* Made link for title as an image to an RSS cube
* Used fetch_feed as feed farser function (the other was not compatible with all the PHP server installations)
* Made code DHTML compatible (hopefully)
= 0.3 =
* Made it fully compatible with Atom 1.0
* Added proper error messages for: empty, non-existing URLs and invalid/misformatted feeds content
* Added defaults for target and list (widget fields)
* Added instruction to hide Warnings from the xmlsimple_load_file function
* Fixed a bug which prevented proper display of description/summary with tags
= 0.2 =
* Fixed a bug which prevented the shortcode to show feeds from URLs containing & and =
* Made it fully compatible with RSS version 0.92, 2.0, 2.0.1 where link and title might be omitted
* Made the widget title linkable to the feed URL
* Used the native PHP class simpleXML instead of the WordPress feed parser (Magpie)
= 0.1 =
* First release. Originating from google-news-widget plugin
As a widget:
* in Appearance – > Widgets of your wp administration, drag & drop the RSS Just Better widget to any widget-ready area of your wp;
* Now, complete the widget form: enter a title to be given to your items list;
** Enter the rss or atom feed (the URL) of the items you wish to display;
** Enter enter any keyword which needs to be present or excluded in the titles of the choosen feed’s items. (*)
** Choose whether you want the widget title linkable to the feed (URL) or not;
** Choose whether you want a publication date/time, excerpt (and for how many char) or not;
** Select whether you want a dotted list (default) or a numbered/ordered list;
** Select whether you want the linked items to open up in a new page (default) or in the same page;
** Choose whether you allow this plugin’s author footer to be displayed or not (please, say yes);
** Click on ‘Save’ (and ‘Close’ the widget form, if you want).
As a shortcode:
* In Posts/Pages->Add New or Edit of your wp adminstration, select the HTML tab in the entry form;
* enter [RSSjb feed=”…”] where “…” is any rss or atom feed you wish to display;
That’s the sole mandatory attribute. Optional attributes are:
* filter: enter any keyword which needs to be present or avoided in the titles of the choosen feed’s items. (*)
* num: number of items to be displayed (default: 3);
* pubdate: either true or false to display the publication date/not (default: false);
* pubtime: either true or false to display the publication time/not (default: false);
* excerpt: either true or false to display the excerpt/not (default: false);
* charex: limit the number of the ecerpt chars to be displayed;
* list: either “ul” or “ol” to get unordered or ordered lists (default: “ul”);
* target: either “_blank” or “_self” to get links opened in a new or the same window (default: “_blank”);
* pubauthor: true/false whether you allow this plugin’s author footer to be displayed or not (please, say yes) (default: “_blank”);
(*) Notes on ‘filter’ attribute:
You can enter one of more words to be able to select your feed’s items by keyword.
So if you write “foo bar” you will INCLUDE ONLY those titles where ANY of the two word(s) is present
and if you write “-foo -bar” you will EXCLUDE ALL those titles where any of the two words is present instead.
You can also mix inclusive and exclusive terms as in “foo -bar” of course (it will include only titles with “foo” and without “bar”.)
Search is case insensitive and searches for keywords in the titles only.
Wildshars, quotes and boolean are not enabled for this search.
Example of shortcode with all attributes and default values:
[RSSjb feed=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/StefaniasBlog” filter=”" num=”5″, list=”ul”, target=”_blank”, pubdate=”false”, pubtime=”false”, pubauthor=”true”, excerpt=”false”, charex=”150″, title=”", link=”false”]
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