rssLiveFeed Wordpress Plugin
Introduction
Download
Usage
Examples
Requirements
Caveat
Others
Update
Bonus \:D/
Introduction
As I mentioned in previous post, today I would like to release the liveRSSFeed plugin for wordpress. In short, what the plugin does basically is read your links list, check if it have RSS URI and retrieve the feed from the URI. If you still cannot understand, try it on my sidebar. The plugin uses wordpress links management system, so there’s no need additional GUI or pass an array of links to it. It wasn’t intended to replace wp display links function but it can.
When Techcrunch profiled grazr.com, I thought it’s kind of nice to have it on my web but it’s too extensive. And then, when I started to actually code for this plugin, the idea was to have netvibes in my very own page, sort of. But then it will be too much too, so this is the outcome. For the effect, I use mootools library.
Download & Installation
The installation is straight forward.
- Download this file: rsslivefeeds.zip
- Extract it to you wordpress plugin folder
- Activate via plugin page
- Edit you theme
Usage:
Manage The Links/Feeds
As mentioned, this plugin uses wp internal links, so you can use wp links management interface to manage the links. The only addition you need to do is to add RSS URI in the advance section as in figure below.
Calling the plugin
Function declaration:
function rssLiveFeed($cat = “”, $target = “_blank”, $prefix = “<li>”, $postfix = “</li>”)
$cat : Category name. ” Means select all
$target: Target window
examples:
rssLiveFeed(); // get all links and retrieve the feeds for links with RSS URI
rssLiveFeed(’Live Feed’); // Retrieve the feeds for links in ‘Live Feed’ category
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Examples
The plugin can be use in many forms, two of which I think most suitable will be displaying links with feeds for links that have RSS URI and the second one, displaying feeds from links in specific categories only.
Example 1:
For the first usage, you will not need to call get_links_list() or get_linksbyname(), instead just call rssLiveFeeds(”). ” as the parameter means it will select all links you have created regardless the categories.
Live Links
<?php
rssLiveFeed(”);
?>
Output
Click on the link name.
Live Links
For the second one, you might still want to call normal wp links functions and have the other heading specially to display links that you want to retrieve their RSS feed. This list may contain your favorite sites you want to share, such as Techcrunch, Gizmodo, Digg, My Delicious and so on. If you want to separate the live feeds, please make sure you set the link to hide or have wp to display selected categories links only.
Example 2:
blogroll
<?php
get_linksbyname(‘Blogroll’);
?>My Interest
<?php
rssLiveFeed(‘YummyFeeds’);
?>
Output
Blogroll
- Kasyah
- Mohd Ismail dot Com
- azwanhadzree.com
- Syaf Da Geek
- Hostvibes
- Tebaboww
- Draxter
- Lovely Nadiah
- Minci Yazumin
- Project Rasso
My Interest
Requirements:
Wordpress version: This plugin tested to work well with wordpress 2.0.x and suppose to work with upcoming wordpress 2.1 as well.
Themes: In order to to use this plugin, your theme must call wp_header() and wp_foooter() functions which most themes normally does.
Caveat:
This version does not support URL redirect, therefore you must provide the real final link in order for this plugin to work. For example, you must use http://feeds.engadget.com/weblogsinc/engadget instead of http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml for Engadget.
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Others:
Good to know is that this plugin uses mootools library (not moo.fx with prototype, just mootools). Therefore, you can use the functions provided from the library as well. Demonstrated in my Pulang Pinang post. There are future upgrades planned for this plugin including ajax update but for the time being, if you have any problem or request, please let me know.
Update:
For this who download the file on 7 pr 8 Jan, or before this update announcement, please download again. Sorry for inconveniences caused.
Bonus:
Ahaha… Only one picture in this post :-O ? I have to dude, I have to. Enjoy another picture of Fasha Sandha. Next, maybe we will have Jessica Alba 
Rsslivefeeds.zip cannot be downloaded.
fixed now. thanks for the info
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adus.. x jadi la .. bro leh kasi coding ntuk letak senarai bloglist tu dalam page? bukan kat sidebar? leh tak? please…. dah try x menjadi… fening.. ~
leh add khai kat ym tak? khai_luct
khai, maaf lambat beri maklumbalas. saya sangat sibuk sekarang ini. insyaAllah, minggu hadapan saya ada sedikit kelapangan, saya akan tolong satu persatu