Adding RSS Feed From Other Websites

Hello,

We have some partner website which we would like to include them into our Newspaper 6 website.

Our idea is to create a category for their feed and then add their feed in that category.

Before we go too far down the road, we wanted to ask if there is something native within Newspaper 6 to address this type of functionality….or…if we need to consider a 3rd party plugin?

If we need to consider a 3rd party plugin…does anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks for any help.

I can recommend FeedWordPress … we use this to aggregate content from our “mothership” to various other sites in our network. I’ve also frequently donated money to them to keep it alive, as it’s free. 🙂

If you have a tech news portal, we also allow folks to syndicate our newswire service content at no charge as long as you don’t make it appear you originated the content.

WPMU folks also has a paid plugin if you’re doing a multi-user site.

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

Hi,

Thank you both for your feedback. We will test all three RSS importer suggestions and see what works the best.

Hello, how are you? I have also tried rss post importer plugin that has this option of also importing feature images and it give you a shortcode, is there any way I can have the feature image imported to the right place? since now feature images are not appearing on the imported posts.

Any help on that? thank you. Michael.

Thanks, will give both those options a try.

I am looking for a similar feature. My question is do any of you know know how to get a RSS widget on a category page? For example, we have a health and fitness category, when a reader goes to that category page, under our articles we would like a widget to display rss feeds from outside sources. But how exactly do you get the rss widget on each category page, and how to you customize so each category rss widget is drawn from different sources (ex the business rss would draw from different sources than the health and fitness one).

Thank you for any insights.

You likely would need to create a script to look at the category and then do an if/then loop to load different text/java/iframe depending on the topic.

Or, create a custom template for a category like ‘shoes’ then hard code the related content being shown on that one custom shoe template.

The WP codex describes how to make a custom template for a category, usually based on the ID of the category. (e.g., if “shoes” were category #23 then you could make a template called category-23.php by cloning the template you have now)…

https://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

The Template Hierarchy specifies that WordPress will use the first Template file it finds in your current Theme’s directory from the following list:

category-slug.php
category-ID.php
category.php
archive.php
index.php

Thanks Chris,

Actually, if you’re using the RSS in a “sidebar” widget, you could make a new sidebar for each category you wanted to do this, then drag instance of RSS plugin to that one sidebar, then assign that to the category page.

category = bunnnies

sidebar = bunniesbar

widget = > bunniesbar > settings > import RSS feed on bunny news

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.
• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.