Comments on: Fetching RSS Posts from within Wordpress

Question: Fetching RSS Posts from within Wordpress

armoured-ant — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:52:57 -0800

I'd like to have a list of the most recent entries from several RSS feeds somewhere on my WordPress blog. How can I do this?

For example, if I wanted to have the last post I made to mefi, the last post I made to askmefi, and the last post I made to meta (all of which are available as the first entry in their respective RSS feeds), listed in my WP blog template, how can I fetch them? Is there a plugin?

Additionally, is there a roundup RSS feed of all of the above, together as one feed, somewhere on MeFi, per user (ie. all of my posts, maybe including comments, in one feed)?

By: danb

danb — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:59:26 -0800

I use CaRP to do this (yeah, I know, most irritating website ever). It required some mucking about with PHP, but nothing I couldn't do (and I don't know the language). The documentation is fairly thorough.

I'm sure there are better, easier plugins to handle this now, but if you decide to use CaRP and need some help, I'll see what I can do.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:29:33 -0800

I use MagpieRSS to do this sort of stuff - again, you can get it working with no real knowledge of PHP, and since it's independent of WordPress, you don't have to worry about plugins breaking when you upgrade.

Staying inside WordPress, assuming you can use Widgets, it looks like the King RSS widget is your best bet (though I've not tried it myself).

There's tons of straight plugins too, like getRSS, RSSImport, &c. - most only pull in one feed, though, so you'd need to use, say, FeedShake to combine together the various MeFi feeds you want to display into one first.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:31:32 -0800

Additionally, is there a roundup RSS feed of all of the above, together as one feed

Nope. You can go to the FAQ to get a list of the feeds on MeFi but there isn't an aggregated feed though you could use something like suprglu to hack something like this up.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:34:02 -0800

Oh, and to answer the additional question: I don't think so (shame, it would be handy to have). But as I say, if you just grab all the feeds on your user page and dump them into FeedShake, you can get yourself a MetaFilter personal mega-feed.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:40:13 -0800

Oop, should've previewed - suprglu is maybe better than FeedShake for making your roundup feed, as you'll get a weblog-style page along with the feed, and it's much easier to add and delete feeds.

By: jessicak

jessicak — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:50:10 -0800

i don't know wordpress very well, but if lets you display simple javascript, you can use Feed2JS. i've used it to display rss feeds on web sites--it's very simple to use (fill out the form with the feed URL, # of posts to display and a couple other things, then click a button and it gives you the js code to insert in your page).

I've had a few feeds that didn't cooperate, but overall, it's a great tool for quickly inserting feeds into a web site without any PHP fiddling.

By: armoured-ant

armoured-ant — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:58:21 -0800

Hah. I know Zach , who made getRSS, personally. The internets are tiny!

Think I'll use suprglu to plug together a combined feed, then getRSS or Feed2JS to fetch it.

Thanks Fites!