by Travis 4.7 (38 reviews)

RSS Feed Retriever

Name: RSS Feed Retriever
Rating: 4.7 (38 reviews)
Author: Travis

The fastest RSS feeds plugin for WordPress. Includes excerpt & thumbnail image. Use as a news aggregator, autoblog, or RSS parsing.

RSS Feed Retriever ranks #2,722 among WordPress.org plugins with 6,000+ active installations, a 4.7/5 rating from 38 reviews, and was last updated Jan 6, 2023. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.1 (Current: 7.1.4)

v1.6.10 Current Version v1.6.10

Updated 3 years ago Last Update on 06 Jan, 2023

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

Top 5% by installs No update in over a year

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193.6K

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Rating

94%

Review 4.7 out of 5

4.7 (38 reviews)

Next Milestone 7K

Total Progress 65.7%

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

4 known vulnerabilities on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 1 month ago

Jan 4, 2023

RSS Feed Retriever [wp-rss-retriever] < 1.6.8

Fixed in v1.6.8
Jan 4, 2023

RSS Feed Retriever [wp-rss-retriever] < 1.6.8

Fixed in v1.6.8
Jan 4, 2023

RSS Feed Retriever [wp-rss-retriever] < 1.6.8

Fixed in v1.6.8
Jan 4, 2023

RSS Feed Retriever [wp-rss-retriever] < 1.6.8

Fixed in v1.6.8

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.6.10
Last Updated: Jan 06, 2023
Requires WP: 2.8+
Tested Up To: 6.1
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Travis

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7
Reviews: 38
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

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TL;DR

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This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to build news aggregators, autoblogs, or simple feed-to-post displays. It solves the problem of fetching and displaying RSS feed content, including excerpts and thumbnail images, anywhere on a site via shortcode.

Fetch multiple RSS feeds
Display feed via shortcode
Control excerpt word count
Optional read more link
Open links in new window
Fetch thumbnail or first image
Set feed cache time
Control order of items

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about RSS Feed Retriever

You can change the layout via WordPress filters. Add the following code to your themes functions.php file: function custom_rss_layout_callback( $layout ) { $layout = array( 'thumbnail', 'title', 'content', 'postdata', ); return $layout; } add_filter( 'wp_rss_retriever_layout', 'custom_rss_layout_callback' ); In addition, you can add your own HTML to the output if you want to wrap elements. Example: $layout = array( '<div class="my-custom-class">', 'thumbnail', 'title', 'content', 'postdata', '</div>' ); Or, if you only want to display the title: $layout = array( 'title', );

Click on the "+" icon to add a new block. Search for "shortcode". Click on the shortcode block to add it. Copy and paste the example shortcode above into the block. Replace the url and other parameters as needed.

Copy and paste the example shortcode above into your content. Replace the url and other parameters as needed. Update/publish the page or post.

Create a new text widget. Click on the "Text" tab. Copy and paste the example shortcode above. Replace the url and other parameters as needed.

Here's an example of how to display an RSS feed with PHP <?php echo do_shortcode('[wp_rss_retriever url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch/" items="10" excerpt="50" read_more="true" credits="true" new_window="true" thumbnail="200" cache="7200"]'); ?>

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