It’s now available for download here
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If you upgraded Wordpress but didn’t upgrade the widget, please don’t post saying that the widget doesn’t work. If you’re looking for advanced usage tips, check here.
I realize that the title of this post says “v1.7,” but feel free to comment about later versions too. I update the thing too frequently to start a new post every time I make a change. (Don’t worry, most changes are minor and you don’t usually need to upgrade unless you want to.)
Okay. You can ask support questions here. If you are getting an error message, you might want to try typing it into that search box in the sidebar first.
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The download link isn’t right.
Should be: [link]
Thanx for the plugin
Oops. The link pointed to one of my other plugins. It’s fixed now.
Adam-
Is it possible to change the formatting of the date? For example, on your feed the date shows as:
[pubdate] => Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:13:19 +0000
Can the plugin change that to July 26, 2007?
Taylor–
My plugin simply returns the feed output, it doesn’t modify it. You could write this customization yourself. For tips, see the FAQ. (Look for the heading that says something like “I’d like to display only part of a field”.)
Very cool plugin. The only stumbling block I’m having is that the title I input on the options page is being wrapped in li tags, and if I leave it blank, the li tags are still there. If you can point me to where in your code I can get rid of that and use h tags (just for the title, not the actual content), or just get rid of the title altogether, I’d be most appreciative. If that makes sense.
Tim,
The widget doesn’t do that, your theme does. Your theme probably has a file called “functions.php” that tells the sidebar widgets what formatting to use around titles. You’ll need to change that. More info:
[link]
Why can this RSS-Feed (http://www.dslr-forum.de/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=123,102,108) not shown up in Wordpress?
Please help
regards from germany
Jochen
Jochen, It works for me, so I’m not sure what to say. Maybe you need to upgrade to the most recent version of Wordpress?
But more to the point, this widget doesn’t grab the feeds–wordpress/includes/rss.php does that. This widget just gives you a bit more control over the output than the standard RSS widget does. If the feed doesn’t show up in the standard RSS widget, it won’t work in this one either.
A note to all those who see this message:
“An error has occured; the feed is probably down.”
I’ve updated the FAQ on this issue. It might be a problem with your host.
Adam: I am still having trouble with this feed: [link]
Using KB RSS v1.7 are there any solution in the near future?
Claus
Claus, my to-do list is a bit overwhelming right now. But I do have one suggestion. Take a look at the first comment on this post.
Is it possible to make the title link a popup?
Keith:
[link]
Note the use of target=’_blank’
Hi, is your plugin compatible with Wordpress 2.3?
Thank you.
I have no idea. Try and see, I guess.
Okay, I installed it, I would like to display the rss feeds inside a page, could you tell me what the php tag is to invoke your plugin?
This is a widget–it can’t be used as anything but a sidebar widget. Check the FAQ.
Ah got it, thanks.
Just one more question, I have got it working, but can I add more than one rss feed?
Ignore the above question, figured it out, sorry :)
my problem:
in the KB Advanced RSS v1.7 ’s box–> An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
please help me
Didn’t read the post before commenting, it would appear?
an error has occurred faq
Is it possible to selectively display items within an array — within another array? so:
[moderated: Please use
`backticks`around code]…and I want to display the -second- value?
Check out example 4 in the instructions and see if that answers your question:
[link]
I can use the ^array=>item$ to pull an item out, but what i can’t do is use it to pull an item in an array contained in a 2nd array. Something like ^array=>subarray=>item$ doesn’t work.
I hope that makes sense.
Could you give a link to the feed so I can play with it?
Hi,
I need to use your GREAT plugin without widgets.
How can I do it?
Is there a function that I can call inside my php document?
I suppose you could, but there’s a better way. My widget is based on the magpie RSS package. If you’re coding directly in PHP rather than using the widgets interface, you’ll probably have an easier time of it if you just use magpie rss directly.
Magpie is already included in the WP build as wp-includes/rss.php. Look at the top of my plugin file for how to activate those functions. Something like this, if I remember right:
Okay, thank you very much for the plugin. It worked the first time…however, it disabled the sidebar2.php file that I had edited, but that was solved with the text widget…on to the problem at hand.
the following feed [link] results in exactly the data I want, but when I view the source, I see the following problem:
Under the (item) –> (description) element, there is code to generate the path to the image for that post, but it’s all screwed up. I’d like to figure out how to display the image in the widget using your plugin.
Problem 2. The link element has the root website with the property MLS number as the subfolder. I’m interested in extracting the MLS number at the end. Your plugin allows us to limit the number of characters that we pull from an element, but what about allowing a range of characters. This would be ^link$, but starting at position 27 and ending at position 35. The reason I need to do this is to add a specific URL in front of the MLS number for the property. If I could do this, I could solve problem number 1 by extracting the MLS number which is also the image naming convention and applying that to an image tag within the plugin.
Thanks for your time!
How about that! I have very little idea how to code, and I figure out that if I add the following to line 200 of your plugin, I get exactly what I want…however, it’s not customizeable and I have to duplicate your plugin php file to use it for other feeds on the same blog. If there was a way to implement this through the widget I would be better off.
Hmm. A left trim option in the widget. I could probably do that later this week.
Glad you got it figured out for now.
I actually had to modify it because it also needs a right trim of the left trim.
Since the end of the URL has a forward slash, the resulting image was incorrectly parsed as /1315465/.1.jpg.
I just uploaded a brand new, rewritten version of the plugin to wp.org. It now includes a built-in left-trim option. Try it out.
It’s also easier to modify, I’m hoping. I’ve posted instructions in the FAQ.
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