Daryll Doyle

<p>This plugin will allow you to specify a custom news feed to display in widget on the admin dashboard. This works in unison with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/dashboard-custom-feed-admin/" rel="ugc"><code>Dashboard Custom Feed Admin</code></a> plugin which creates the feed.</p>
<p>This is mainly useful for notifying all your clients of something through their wordpress dashboard, whether that be a link to a new blog you’ve written or a notification asking everyone to upgrade their versions of wordpress. It’s really up to you what you show in there.</p>


Dashboard Custom Feed

Retrieves a custom news feed and displays it in a widget on the admin dashboard

Eric Teubert

<p>This plugin was created with the iTunes Podcast Feed in mind. However, you can feed it any RSS feed you like. If you would like to display some tags which are not supported right now, please feel free to contact me.</p>
<h4>Quick Start</h4>
<p>Create a template “myfeeds” in <code>Settings > Multi Feed Reader</code>.<br />
Add your Feeds.<br />
Create a page and paste in one of these shortocdes:</p>
<pre><code>[multi-feed-reader template="myfeeds"]
[multi-feed-reader template="myfeeds" limit="10"]
[multi-feed-reader template="myfeeds" cachetime="300"]
</code></pre>
<p>Enjoy 🙂</p>
<h4>Parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>template</code>: (required) name of the template</li>
<li><code>limit</code>: (optional) maximum number of items per feed. default: 15</li>
<li><code>cachetime</code>: (optional) time in seconds to cache results. default: 300</li>
<li><code>nocache</code>: (optional) set to “1” to deactivate cache. not recommended, will make your multifeed-page very slow. default: 0</li>
</ul>
<h4>Force Cache Refresh</h4>
<p>To clear the cache, call the site with parameter <code>?nocache=1</code>. So if your site is <code>example.com/archives</code>, open <code>example.com/archives?nocache=1</code> in your browser. You should then see the refreshed page immediately.</p>
<h4>Placeholders</h4>
<p>You can specify a custom template to display the archive elements.<br />
Go to <code>Settings > Multi Feed Reader</code> for plugin preferences.<br />
Use HTML and any of the following template placeholders.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>%TITLE%</code> – Episode title (<title>).</li>
<li><code>%SUBTITLE%</code> – Episode subtitle (<itunes:subtitle>).</li>
<li><code>%CONTENT%</code> – Episode content (<content:encoded>).</li>
<li><code>%CONTENT|...%</code> – Same as above but truncated to the given amount of words.</li>
<li><code>%DURATION%</code> – Episode duration (<itunes:duration>).</li>
<li><code>%SUMMARY%</code> – Episode summary (<itunes:summary>).</li>
<li><code>%LINK%</code> – Episode link (<link>).</li>
<li><code>%GUID%</code> – Episode Globally Unique Identifier (<guid>)</li>
<li><code>%DESCRIPTION%</code> – Episode description (<itunes:description> or <description>).</li>
<li><code>%DESCRIPTION|...%</code> – Same as above but truncated to the given amount of words.</li>
<li><code>%ENCLOSURE%</code> – Url of first episode enclosure (<enclosure> url attribute).</li>
<li><code>%THUMBNAIL%</code> – Thumbnail tag in original size (<itunes:image>).</li>
<li><code>%THUMBNAIL|...x...%</code> – Same as above but with certain dimensions. Example: <code>%THUMBNAIL|75x75%</code>.</li>
<li><code>%DATE%</code> – Episode publish date (<pubDate>) in WordPress default format. </li>
<li><code>%DATE|...%</code> – Same as above but in a custom format. Example: <code>%DATE|Y/m/d%</code>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Access data from app store feeds:</p>
<ul>
<li>%APPNAME% – App name.</li>
<li>%APPPRICE% – App price.</li>
<li>%APPIMAGE% – App Icon as HTML image.</li>
<li>%APPARTIST% – App artist / publisher.</li>
<li>%APPRELEASE% – App release date in WordPress format.</li>
</ul>
<p>Use these placeholders to access global feed data:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>%FEEDTITLE%</code> – Feed title (<title>).</li>
<li><code>%FEEDSUBTITLE%</code> – Feed subtitle (<itunes:subtitle>).</li>
<li><code>%FEEDSUMMARY%</code> – Feed summary (<itunes:summary>).</li>
<li><code>%FEEDLINK%</code> – Feed link (<link>).</li>
<li><code>%FEEDLANGUAGE%</code> – Feed language (<language>).</li>
<li><code>%FEEDTHUMBNAIL%</code> – Feed image (<itunes:image>).</li>
<li><code>%FEEDTHUMBNAIL|...x...%</code> – Same as above but with certain dimensions. Example: <code>%FEEDTHUMBNAIL|75x75%</code>.</li>
</ul>


Multi Feed Reader

Reads multiple feeds. Output can be customized via templates. Is displayed via Shortcodes.

Dashboard Custom Feed vs Multi Feed Reader