Adam R Brown

How can I (if ever) add the RSS data to my frontpage, which is not blog and no WP?! How do include it? It’s php. Thanks in advance, great tool.

Adam for me thereisnt a solution?? u can help me??

I have been trying to emulate your RSS setup on your site under the header “KB Advanced RSS” ..I am using rss feed “http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/health” can you give me the layout so I can try and set it up that way???

Thank you for a GREAT plugin :)

can this plugin can add more than 1 RSS feed? I would like to add another feed to my front page, is it possible? If not, maybe a feature for your next release?

Awesome. That works great, I didnt notice that the settings were all the way at the bottom. Thanks for this plugin!

ok, i’m a little new to this, thank you for oyur time…
in the faq you say something about “?kbrss=http://path.to.feed/” where do I put this? in your plugin? in the sidebar? in the address line of my browser?

ok, this is embarrassing… i think i’m getting it now. i just did not understand at first. thanks!

Hi Adam,

I wonder if it’s possible to specify only the first “link” in an RSS feed. My problem is the RSS Google reader gives me to work with (see here: [link]).

Your Plugin reads the feed just fine, however it combines both links (^^ plus ^^) so the link gets invalid.

Great plugin! exactly what I was looking for now that feeddigest.com is no longer reliable. Unfortunately I am using google rss reader and I am having the same problem as Christoph Voigt. Google uses the same element ids for various elements. How crazy is that! Escpecially the element. Any help with this is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Regards,

G

Hey, thanks for the reply! Here is an example of a google reader broadcast rss. As you will quickly surmise, google uses the “link” field to denote the url of the source blog and the url of the individual source post. This leads to two links being displayed in each item of the rss widget. If we could somehow limit to the first “link” field we would probably resolve the situation.

Yes, I did read the faq section and that is why I think it is possible to resolve but I think it would require “modifying the feed” which is something I am not technically capable of achieving. And since this affects the widely used google rss broadcast feeds I thought everyone would benefit. I was not surprised to see I am not the only one affected by this. Thank for your feedback!

Regards,

G

When I select “Link title to feed URL” it works fine; however…the title is blending into the background color I have set on my theme….is there a way to customize that link so it shows as White text? I have tried to adjust my theme css but i have been unable to figure out a way to set it so it doesn’t mess up other links in my theme. Sorry if this is a n00b question, it’s drivin me crazy!

is it possible to add a custom color into the widget properties so I can change only that one parameter?

This is a really great plugin and I’m using it in several ways. I consider my blog as mi face on the Net, so I use your plugin to track my notes on FaceBook and to display links to sites I comment on by using del.icio.us feeds and tags. The result is a complete map of my Web presence. Thanks a lot.

Yo can see it working at mi home: a very important part of my sidebar is made using 5 times your plugin, calling 5 times the function kb_rss_template. But I have a little issue: I can’t control how many items in RSS are displayed. In code, I placed this, for example:

kb_rss_template($url = 'http://del.icio.us/rss/ishkarioth/comentado', $format = '^title$‘, $numItems=7, $utf=false, $echo=true)

But I’e getting 10 elements instead of 7 no matter what I change. I guess it could happen because in kb_advanced_rss.php…:

function kb_rss_template($url, $format, $numItems=10, $utf=false, $echo=true){
global $kb_advRss;
return $kb_advRss->display_template( $url, $format, $numItems, $utf, $echo );

and maybe that 10 is overwriting my preferences when calling the function on sidebar. And there is a 10 too in the arguments of the display_template function.

¿Can I fix this by simply changing «$numItems=10» with «$numItems»? New with php… Thanks in advance.

Sorry about my english: I’m spanish.

Ops, now I feel like a stupid… Said I was new in php.

I’m still getting 10 elements…

That’s not a big problem by now, but I have a section where I want to show only the last item, and I woukd like to use your plugin to do so.

¿What can be going wrong?

Perfect!!

Lots of thanks!! And I must admit I’m very glad you answered so fast. Chapeau.

Hi Adams,
First of all thanks for a great widget.

I installed it the first day and it worked just fine but then it stopped.

Now when I activate the widget it cuts off the page right before the where the widget is supposed to display.

When I take it remove the widget from the sidebar then the page goes back to normal.

Can you help?

Thanks

Just wanna say this is the best wp plugin I’ve ever used. Great Job. Thanks so much.

Thanks, Adam.

Yes, I have reviewed the other information on your site, tried updating Magpie, etc. I swear I tried hard to figure it out myself before imposing on you! ;)

Anyhow, interesting that the feed isn’t valid. I suppose I should take it up with Yahoo.

But it’s definitely true that the feed displays in the stock widget (though the links are badly formed, which is why I went looking for another solution) while your widget displays the error message.

The plugin works great for one of my RSS feeds, but not for another. I’m trying to use it to display the most recent entry from one of my categories on my WP blog. If I use the RSS from the entire blog, it works But if I use the one for a specific category, it doesn’t (says the feed is down). :(

[link] works

[link] doesn’t (for my OMG category)

I tried to use the ?kb_rss tool to see what elements are in my rss feed from WP, but it tells me I need to be logged in as an administrator, even though I am. You can see my experiments on the main page on the right

Any help greatly appreciated!

@John P. My main page only shows entries of a particular category and I want to have entries in this other category show up in the sidebar. Interestingly enough, I found another person’s WordPress blog that is giving similar errors but only for his RSS feeds that have tags (http://ordinarywebguy.wordpress.com/).

re your excellent kb-advanced-rss wordpress plugin

Hi Adam and the other readers,

great plugin it works fantastically!

quick question im pulling up an rss feed in the side navbar. when one of the rss news items is clicked how do I get it to open up in a new window instead of opening up and changing in the current parent window?

I realize I must have to change the source code somewhere, but don’t know where and don’t know what to, hope you can help.

many thanks in advance

David

Hi - great plug-in, thanks. Any way to filter a feed (e.g., by category)? I’m getting a feed from blogtalkradio which has blog posts as well as ‘radio’ shows and just want to display the shows.

Thanks!

Hello,
I wanted to know if it’s possible to show images. I tried Simplepie for Wordpress and it shows text and images but with your plugin (and Magpie I suppose), I can only hâve text. I cannot use Simplepie any more because I need to disable other plugins to make it work… ;-)

Nice plugin. I have one question. The individual feed entries link back to my site rather than the actual feed site’s article. Is this an issue with the feed, my site or the plugin. This is the feed: [link] The actual feed has feed rather than http, but if i put feed nothing shows up.

Ok, I just answered my own question. I just had to turn off the UTF-8 conversion.

Answered my own question, thanks for the great plugin. For the record it is easy to change the max amount of widgets for anyone interested:
// SETTINGS
define('KBRSS_HOWMANY', 20); // max number of KB RSS widgets that you can have. Set to whatever you want. But don't put it higher than you need, or you may gum up your server.
define('KBRSS_MAXITEMS', 20); // max number of items you can display from a feed. Obviously, you can't get more than are in the actual feed.

change the 20 to however many. thanks again for the great plugin. anyone interested can see the results of this effort tomorrow at [link]

Hi Adam. Thanks for this great plugin. I have my ^title$ trimmed to the first 40 characters. I was wondering: is there a way to insert an elipsis (or, just three periods) after the ^title$ element,but only if trimming actually took place?

Maybe I missed this in the docs - but is there a way to get it to parse URLs in a feed so they are hyperlinked to the referenced URL - instead of just having he entry entirely linked back to the original feed or post?

Huh, I put a backtick in the code — maybe I’m supposed to surround it with backticks? If the below doesn’t show my code correctly, let’s just assume I’m using the default formatting.

<li>^pubdate[opts:date=M jS]$ ~ <a class='kbrsswidget' href='^link$' title='^description$'>^title$</a></li>

thanks!

Hi - awesome plugin - works great in the sidebar. I noticed that there’s code in the php file on lines 472 and 498 (I only know enough to be dangerous) about displaying the feed in a template rather than a sidebar. But I can’t figure out what to put in the template. Any guidance, even a basic example, would be appreciated!

I would like the feed to display images in the sidebar. (last section of the sidebar) Here is my blog. [link]

Here is the feed.

[link]

Here is the html part of the feed.

$field_value = “$data[product] - ” . $config[’General’][’currency_symbol’] . $data[’price’] . “$data[product_url]$data[main_category]” . strftime(’%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT’, $data[’adddate’]) . “<![CDATA[ ” . $data[’product’] . ” ]]>” . $data[’productid’] . ‘:’ . $data[’adddate’] . “” . chr(10);

What changes do I do to make it work?

Was there any update to the “Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /www/vhosts/…/wp-content/plugins/kb-advanced-rss-widget/kb_advanced_rss.php on line 159″ from post 47 here?

Is there a way to fix this?

Alright, I have went through the documentation and used the rss troubleshooter. I want it to show the thumbnail image that is in my feed as well. For some reason even though I think I have done everything right, it still strips it out!

Dear Adam,

Great job on the widget, it works very well. I have a feature request - if you want to discuss offline, please do.

We want to display a different feed per category. Likely the best way to do this with your plugin is to have an omit feed if category exists or vice versa… What are your thoughts on this?

Thanks!

Raj

Awesome widget!

You’ve got reverse order, but what about alphabetical on title?

Pulling in RSS Feed of my Delicious bookmarks and I keep them Alphabetical there.

‘^pubdate[opts:date=M jS]$’ <–that doesn’t get the dates to show up. What am I doing wrong?

Greetings,

It’s possible upgrading to WP2.7 breaks KB RSS 2.1.

Hani

Hi! Why dont I use the ^creator$ tag?

I would like to use the tag so:

^pubdate[opts:date=H:i]$ ^title$ (^creator$)

But the last tag isnt working.

How can i cut the titel of a feed to a special character (like “-”) ?
Concretly i’d like to cut of the description of the macupdate-RSS-feed from the titel (in this case the description is in the feed-titel included and the seperator is “-”).
Does anybody have an idea? THX!

Hi - the rss-feed doesn’t show danish ‘æ’, ‘ø’ and ‘å’. Or rather it shows only 50 pct. of the time. I’ve tried to insert da_DK in the css but apparently I haven’t found the right place. I’m using Wordpress 2.7 in the Danish translation.

Thanks, Lars

I updated worpress to version 2.7.1 and now I have problems, KB Adv. RSS is not generating start of list. only tags … when i put in pretext and to posttext nothings happend….

I updated to wordpress 2.7.1 and now this widget can’t seem to remember and of the information typed into the fields except for the url of the RSS feed. It keeps resetting to the default.

Going back to 2.7 fixes the issue, so it must be a change in the upgraded files.

hello… so i want to use the “^image[opts:extractUrl=1]$” on my feed but…. u said after i do that i should open the plugin file and search for function item_cleanup. Insert the code in there. Something like this:

if (1==$extractURL){
…
}

what should the dots be?

Great plugin! You saved me! By the way, I am using 2.7 and it works perfect.

For those who want to put just the RSS content and title, it’s easy. Put ^description$ ^title$ in the feed items of the widget. It took me a while to figure out, because I have no clue about coding. But it works perfect now.

I am having a problem with the widgets not saving the formatting options. Title, etc are saved, but the rest is reset to default when I click save.

Using WP 2.7.1

Having same problem with saving settings after upgrading to 2.7.1 :( Was using widget extensively at my blog.

It was pleasure using your plugin, thank you! Off to search for alternative.

Hi, I have just installed your plug in and it works great. However, is it possible to be able to open the blog links in a new page so as not to lose the visitor? Linda

I like KB Advanced RSS. I’m sharing my experience with it in my post WordPress: External RSS Feeds Optimization with KB Advanced RSS, including details of customization with an additional “rtrim” string manipulation option.

I hope this is useful and, maybe, included in a future version.

it would be a nice improvement if there was a method to avoid tag stripping from content, which seems mandatory? perhaps different tags. ^description$ for regular stripped content, ^^description$$ for raw?

Do you know the correct tags or elements to use in order to display calendar events from a Google Calendar feed? I have the events showing - but I cannot get the date and time to display.

I love your plugin, it is just about what I was looking for, but i’m having trouble with one thing. I am trying to add a custom image, but one that will display abit larger than your average rss feed..in fact 160×71 are the dimensions. It posts fine, but for some reason, goes to the right instead of centered or left. Do you know why that would be going on, or a way to fix it? If you want to see what I am talking about, I have it setup at [link] Any help you can give me is REALLY appreciated too.

@Tony Bullard: I am having the same problem (using v 2.1.3). I cannot replace the default formatting code, and the default preceding and following html tags are blank; it will accept changes but won’t save them.

Consequently the RSS feed is showing, but not the way I want it to, which kind of defeats the purpose.

Hi mate. I would like to report a compatability issue with wordpress version 2.8.

Due to changed made in the way the widgets page works users are no longer able to have multiple kb advanced rss widgets.

When i use the drop down and select say 3 widgets, nothing happens. Limited to one kb advanced rss widget untill a fix is found.

A warning to those who are using this widget. Do not under any surcomstances upgrade to wordpress 2.8 i you are using more than one kb advanced rss widget on page untill this issue is resolved.

Thanks.

I got the same Problem and could not fix it. wordpress nightly also didnt help.
Anybody got an idea?

I know that you’re searching for a developer for your wordpress plugin but can you please tell us how we could fix the issue that you can only add one widget in WP 2.8? Would be really cool :)