Shaolin Tiger’s “How to Use RSS Feeds on Your WordPress Site”
from Adding RSS Feeds to WordPress
One issue I did come up against is that although you can put Template Tags and PHP code into a Page Template, you cannot put these into the content of a Page and expect them to run. This meant I had to use a PHP evaluating Plugin (example: RunPHP) to enable the < ?php randomFeedList() ?> feature of the Feed List plugin.
EDIT: October 10
I’ve completely revamped how I use this plugin.
- I have a WordPress Page with it’s own template (page_rss_parent), that is an exact replica of my standard Page template except it incldues the Dynamic Ajax Content from www.dynamicdrive.com. As you select a link to a particular RSS feed, this Page loads it dynamically.
- The RSS feeds are each in their own page, using the FeedList plugin . These pages have their own template ( page_rss) that has no call to sidebar or footer. This is because these pages will be loaded into a DIV on already already existing page, with the header, sidebar footer etc already present.
- I have another page that is the parent of the pages with the RSS feeds. This means I can exclude this page (and therefore the underlying RSS Feed pages) when using wp_list_pages in my header.
- I don’t need the runPHP plugin.
Next step is to write it up as a plugin. The big issue is where to store the RSS feeds:
- If I store them in WordPress as Pages, you’ll need to do the wp_list_pages hack described above.
- If I store them in another table, it raises issues of tidiness and compatibility with later versions
- If I store them as a text file in the plugin directory, there’s issues around the read/write permissions
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1. Comment by Bill
Friday, September 29th, 2006 12:42 pm GMT +8 at 12:42 pm
The random feed function is fairly new to feedList and, therefore, it doesn’t have a “filter” setup so that you can embed a call within a post. It was requested as a feature to populate sidebars.
However, if you (or other people) want to embed random feeds in a post (a thought I had never had) I could add a filter so that you could do something like:
this way you can override the default random feed file and thus use it to show different sets of random feeds in different posts and not have to have an additional plugin installed.
Also, if you ever have a question about the plugin (feedList) or want a new feature, feel free to drop by the google group (http://groups.google.com/group/wp-feedlist) and post a message.
Hope the plugin works well for you.
Bill Rawlinson
2. Comment by Terrance
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 08:39 pm GMT +8 at 8:39 pm
Problem with RSS Feed in WordPress.
I have a subdomain that I installed wordpress for another blog site, but the subdomain site's rss feed points to my parent site.
Can anyone come up with any suggestions?