GrandSlambert

<p>Replacement for the built in RSS widget that adds an optional link target, shortcode, and page conditionals.</p>
<h4>Usage Notice</h4>
<p>This plugin does not, and cannot replace the existing RSS Widget. Once you install, activate, and configure this plugin you must go to your Widgets page and either replace existing RSS widgets with the new widget, or add new Better RSS Widgets.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add title or post tags to the feed URL in the shortcode.</li>
<li>Excerpt length can be set in both the widget and the shortcode.</li>
<li>Limit the number of characters to display for the title of the post.</li>
<li>Add text or html before the list of posts on widgets.</li>
<li>Shortcode to allow embedding RSS feeds into posts and pages.</li>
<li>Choose whether to cache the RSS feed and set the cache duration per feed, defaults to 3600 seconds (1 hour).</li>
<li>Option to display the post time.</li>
<li>Allows multiple widgets each with different settings.</li>
<li>Adds the link target to both the RSS Title and all articles.</li>
<li>Default settings screen allows you to decide what defaults will appear when adding a new widget.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<p>This plugin includes the following translations. Translations listed with no translator were created by the plugin developer using Google Translate. If you can improve these, you can get your name listed here!</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
</ul>


Better RSS Widget

Replacement for the built in RSS widget that adds an optional link target, shortcode, and page conditionals.

jstar198

<p>You know how <code>target="_blank"</code> is invalid in XHTML strict? Well, this plugin uses a Javascript hack to get around this. The code was originally taken from this thread I came across: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/11165.htm</p>
<p>For posts/pages, the plugin will automatically captures any <code>target="_blank"</code>‘s inserted by the WP editor and modifies them to keep the page XHTML Strict valid. Then some small Javascript is inserted into each page which re-inserts <code>target="_blank"</code> so that the functionality is restored <em>after</em> your page has been validated!</p>
<p>For non-post/page content (eg templates/widgets), simply give your outbound links a class name of <code>external</code>, and the rest will be done automatically while keeping your page XHTML valid.</p>
<h3>To Do</h3>
<p>Future things I plan to add:</p>
<ul>
<li>Integration into WP edit page to allow use of plugin without manually editing HTML.</li>
</ul>


External Linker

Allows you to get around using target="_blank" by converting all your outbound links using Javascript.

Better RSS Widget vs External Linker