Feeder - RSS Feed Aggregator WordPress Plugin
Published by Sunny on March 31st, 2007 in WordPressFeeder is an advanced RSS feed aggregator plugin for WordPress blogs by my good friend Subbu. By using feeder, you can easily display feeds from any website or blog. Feeder currently works well with WordPress 2.1 blogs.
Unique thing about Feeder is that, it can cache the given feed on your server. As Directly accessing the feed causes a delay in rendering your site, Because it needs to be parsed every time your page is accessed (and not-to-mention it is taxing on the site where the feed is sourced).
Regular readers might remember that during the initial pre-release stage of Feeder, I had used it to display RSS feeds from the forum. It worked like a charm!
The main advantages of Feeder are that it can cache the feeds, so as to reduce load on both your server, as well as the feed’s server. Feeder then parses the feed links inbetween a <li> tag, so you can easily display feeds in your sidebar, or any other place you want. Its easy to configure, you can set any number of feed links and sites as well.
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April 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Wow! Thanks for the Link Back! and Nice Description :p
April 16th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Can you tell me if “Feeder” is able to parse and display RSS feed in a Wordpress Page?
April 16th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Yup! RSS Feeds from another site/source. That’s Feeder’s main Purpose
April 16th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Sorry I Didn’t Quite Understand you, You Meant to use Feeder on a Seperate Page?
I’m sorry to say it cant currently, Can only be used on sidebars. However Feeder is still under development and it will soon have a Options page and an easy to use method. You can display feeds using just [FEEDER] in any post or page.
Regards.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:40 am
Yes, I meant on a Page, not just in the sidebar. Thank you for the clarification, I look forward to further developments. have a wonderful day!
p.s. Feel free to put me on the update email list if there is one:)
Adam
April 17th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Adam,you’ll be notified of any new update to the plugin via email. It’ll appear as a comment here, and you will automatically be notified!
May 14th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
I’m not sure what you mean by simply adding [FEEDER] to a Wordpress page. Where would you define where the RSS feed URL and parameters?
Thanks,
Brandon
May 26th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Hi Adam,
Can this output to the normal WordPress posts yet- i.e. each RSS feed item forms a new post. Most of the tools that used to do this- including FeedWordPress seem to have disappeared, and I need this application.
Thank you
Rob G.
May 27th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Hi Rob,
I don’t think there’s an update to this plugin yet that will allow it to create new posts from an RSS feed. I have been using feedwordpress to accomplish this, but I did check out the developer’s site and it seems the only downloads I could find were for updates. You may want to contact them directly and inquire.
For more details on how I’m using this, feel free to contact me through my website above and I’ll help all I can;)
June 29th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Hi. First of all, I’d like to say this is a very nice plugin. I’ve installed it and tried to run tumblr rss but it seems it gives a blank link. I mean the href is empty when I tried to run RSS feeds from tumblr.
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Hi,
I would like the option to also display the image in the RSS feed on the screen.
Is this possible?
August 30th, 2007 at 1:27 am
I’m having the same problem Dino has above in that the tumblr feed links come back blank. Also I cannot display a description.