Now that I’m out of graduate school and working a real job, I rarely have time to work on my plugins. Apologies. I’ve even tried to pass on development of my plugins to others, and have had a handful of qualified volunteers step up. But today I found the time to rewrite the KB Advanced [...]

If you want to take over my KB Advanced RSS plugin, please get in touch. It is shamefully outdated, but I don’t have the time to maintain it anymore. I made a similar advertisement several months ago. Somebody replied and said he would upload a new version to wordpress.org within a couple weeks. He never [...]

The newest version of the my RSS widget for WordPress integrates several suggestions made by commenters on this post. Among the changes: A checkbox to reverse the order of the feed’s contents An option to hide that annoying “the feed is down” error message when the feed is empty Options to bypass the script stripping, [...]

I uploaded a new, rewritten version of the KB Advanced RSS widget to the wordpress plugins repository today. Features: New options for trimming and formatting elements Better handling of the pubdate field Easier to customize with your own code Download it here Check out the updated instructions and FAQ over at WP.org (follow the download [...]

For some time I’ve had people asking me why they get that “an error has occurred” message so frequently with KB Advanced RSS. I have figured out that it is definitely not an issue with my widget, since people get the same error when I tell them to try the default RSS widget. But while [...]

It’s now available for download here . 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 [...]

Now available here for download here . 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 “v1.5.4,” but feel free to comment about later versions too. I update [...]