Olav Kolbu

Google aggregates news from over 4500 news sources, updated 
continously. The results can be retrieved as a number of 
RSS feeds, where you can create your own specific feed by 
specifying one of more than 40 regions/languages, and an 
optional topic ranging from Domestic to Most Popular to 
Entertainment. Currently there are nine topics, including, 
of course, All. In addition to this, any feed can be filtered 
through a search query so that only news items matching your 
query will be shown. Note that not all combinations of 
region/language and topic has been enabled by Google but 
it should degrade gracefully.
This plugin works both as a widget, as inline content 
replacement and can be called from themes. Any number of 
inline replacements or theme calls allowed, but only one 
widget instance is supported in this release.
For widget use, simply use the widget as any other after 
selecting which feed it should display. For inline content 
replacement, insert the one or more of the following strings in 
your content and they will be replaced by the relevant news feed. 
For theme use, add the do_action function call described below.
<ol>
<li><code></code> for the default feed</li>
<li><code></code></li>
</ol>
Shortcodes can be used if you have WordPress 2.5 or above, 
in which case these replacement methods are also available.
<ol>
<li><code>[google-news]</code> for the default feed</li>
<li><code>[google-news name="feedname"]</code></li>
</ol>
Calling the plugin from a theme is done with the WP do_action() 
system. This will degrade gracefully and not produce errors 
or output if plugin is disabled or removed.
<ol>
<li><code><?php do_action('google_news'); ?></code> for the default feed</li>
<li><code><?php do_action('google_news', 'feedname'); ?></code></li>
</ol>
Enable plugin, go to the Google News page under 
Dashboard->Settings and read the initial information. Then 
go to the Google News page under Dashboard->Manage and 
configure one or more feeds. Then use a widget or insert 
relevant strings in your content or theme.
Additional information:
The available options are as follows.
Name: Optional feed name, that can be used in the 
widget or the inline replacement string to reference 
a specific feed. Any feed without a name is considered 
“default” and will be used if the replacement strings do 
not reference a specific feed. If there are more than 
one feed with the same name, a random of these is picked 
every time it is used. This also applies to the default 
feed(s).
Title: Optional, which when set will be used in the 
widget title or as a header above the news items when 
inline. If the title is empty, then a default title 
of “Google News : <region> : <feed type>” is used. Note 
that as per Google Terms of Service it is a requirement 
to state that the news come from Google.
News region: A dropdown list of 40 choices, determining 
the region/language of the feed.
News type: Another dropdown list, determining what type of 
news you are after. Sci/Tech, Business, Health etc.
Output type: Some Google feeds come with just text, 
some pictures or pictures on nearly every news item. Chose 
which one you want here.
News item length: Short or long. The short version is really just 
the news item title as a one liner but probably the one most 
WP admins will use. The long version is a 3-4 line teaser that 
has been severely stripped of useless markup that Google insists 
on passing along, including tables, links, colour/font/style 
settings etc. I’ve tried to clean it up so it won’t mess up your 
theme. For the short version, the long text without html tags is 
available as a mouse rollover/tooltip.
Max items to show: As the title says, if the feed has 
sufficient entries to fulfil the request.
Optional query filter: One of the most important parts of 
the Google News RSS Feed is the ability to filter the news 
with your very own search query. Get relevant, up to date 
news on the exact topic you want. Note that if you add a 
search query, then the short item length will include an 
“all N news articles” link curtesy Google. If you choose 
to add a query, then you most likely want to set a title 
as well. To explain to the viewer what kind of news you have 
selected for them to see. The News Query isn’t like a standard 
Google Query, so you can’t use || between words to search 
for one or the other. So IFF you start your query with 
the word OR then the rest of the words will be or’ed 
together. I.e. a query string of ‘OR this that’ will look 
for news containing either this or that. This is really 
just a test, so the actual query language used here may change in 
future versions.
Cache time: The feeds are now fetched using WordPress 
builtin MagpieRSS system, which allows for caching of feeds 
a specific number of seconds. Cached feeds are stored in 
the backend database.
Clicking on a news item will of course take you via Google to 
the news site with the relevant article, as per Google Terms of Use.
If you want to change the look&feel, the inline table is 
wrapped in a div with the id “google-news-inline” and the 
widget is wrapped in an li with id “google-news”. Let me 
know if you need more to properly skin it.
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Google News

Displays news items from selectable Google News RSS feeds, inline, as a widget or in a theme. Multiple feeds allowed. Query filters and caching.

Freemius

Matt Pramschufer

emoxie

RSS Control is a powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to control and customize your RSS feeds through URL query parameters. These work on all feed types including the main feed, category feeds, tag feeds, and more.
Free features include filtering by category, tag, post type, date range, post IDs, and offset. You can also control excerpts, display featured images with custom styling, and include post titles in descriptions.
Premium features add support for custom taxonomy filtering, specialized feed formats (Google Publisher Center, Google News Showcase, NextDoor, Meta Commerce), call-to-action buttons, primary category output control, custom sort ordering, and a visual Feed URL Generator in the admin.
<h3>Example</h3>
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?cat=89&days_past=7&show_images=true&image_styles=border:4px; border-color:#000; float:left;
</blockquote>
The example above will show posts from category 89 from the past 7 days. It will show featured images with a 4px black border floated to the left.
<h3>Free Options</h3>
<h4>cat</h4>
Filter by category ID. Can be a single ID or comma-separated list. Prefix with <code>-</code> to exclude. See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#category-parameters
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?cat=-3,10,22 
 The use of the NEGATIVE in front of the category ID says DO NOT INCLUDE posts from category 3.
</blockquote>
<h4>category_name</h4>
Filter by category slug. Can be a single slug or comma-separated list. See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#category-parameters
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?category_name=apples,bananas
</blockquote>
<h4>category_not_in</h4>
Exclude posts from specified category IDs. See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#category-parameters
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?category_not_in=3,10 
 Display posts that are not in category ids 3 and 10.
</blockquote>
<h4>tag</h4>
Filter by tag ID. Can be a single ID or comma-separated list. Prefix with <code>-</code> to exclude. See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#tag-parameters
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?tag=-3,10,22 
 The use of the NEGATIVE in front of the tag ID says DO NOT INCLUDE posts from tag 3.
</blockquote>
<h4>tag_not_in</h4>
Exclude posts with specified tag IDs. See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#tag-parameters
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?tag_not_in=3,10 
 Display posts that do not have any of the two tag ids 3 and 10.
</blockquote>
<h4>post_in</h4>
Display specific posts by ID in the order specified. See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#post-page-parameters
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?post_in=3,10,22 
 The order in which you add posts is the order in which they will appear in the feed.
</blockquote>
<h4>post_type</h4>
Filter by post type. Can be a single post type or comma-separated list. Common types include post, page, attachment, or any custom post type slug. See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#post-type-parameters
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?post_type=page 
 https://yourdomain.com/feed/?post_type=post,page 
 Default is “post”.
</blockquote>
<h4>offset</h4>
Skip a number of posts from the beginning of the feed. See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#pagination-parameters
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?offset=3 
 This will skip the 3 latest posts and start the feed with post 4.
</blockquote>
<h4>days_past</h4>
Show posts from the past X number of days only.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?days_past=7 
 This will display the posts from the last 7 days in a feed.
</blockquote>
<h4>show_images</h4>
Display the featured image in the content of the RSS feed.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?show_images=true 
 This will display featured image in the content of the RSS feed. The default image size is 696×385.
</blockquote>
<h4>image_width</h4>
Set the width for the featured image. Requires <code>show_images=true</code>.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?show_images=true&image_width=300 
 This will set the inline style of the image to have width: 300px.
</blockquote>
<h4>image_height</h4>
Set the height for the featured image. Requires <code>show_images=true</code>.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?show_images=true&image_height=300 
 This will set the inline style of the image to have height: 300px.
</blockquote>
<h4>image_size_unit</h4>
Set the image size unit for the featured image (px, em, %, fr, etc). Requires <code>show_images=true</code>.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?show_images=true&image_width=100&image_size_unit=% 
 This will set the inline style of the image to have a width of 100%.
</blockquote>
<h4>image_styles</h4>
Set additional inline CSS styles on the featured image. These come before the width & height. Requires <code>show_images=true</code>.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?show_images=true&image_styles=border:4px; border-color:#000; float:left; 
 This will set the inline style of the image to have a black border of 4px and float the image to the left.
</blockquote>
<h4>excerpt_length</h4>
Control the length of the excerpt in number of WORDS.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?excerpt_length=20 
 This will return all feed items with the content of only 20 words.
</blockquote>
<h4>excerpt_more_text</h4>
Set the text that appears when content is truncated. Normally it is either […] or …
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?excerpt_length=20&excerpt_more_text=%5B…Read%20More%5D 
 This will return all feed items with the content of only 20 words ending with […Read More].
</blockquote>
<h4>include_title_in_description</h4>
Include the post title in the feed description/content, wrapped in an HTML tag.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?include_title_in_description=true 
 This will return all feed items with the title present in the description.
</blockquote>
<h4>title_tag</h4>
Change the HTML tag that wraps the title. Requires <code>include_title_in_description=true</code>. DO NOT include the < or >, just the tag name.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?include_title_in_description=true&title_tag=div 
 This will wrap the title in a div tag instead of the default h1.
</blockquote>
<h4>title_styles</h4>
Apply inline CSS styles to the title tag. Requires <code>include_title_in_description=true</code>.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?include_title_in_description=true&title_tag=div&title_styles=float:left;%20margin-right:30px;%20border:1px%20solid%20red; 
 This will apply the styles inline to the title tag.
</blockquote>
<h3>Premium Options</h3>
<h4>orderby</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Sort feed posts by a specified field. Common values: title, date, menu_order, ID, author. See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#order-orderby-parameters
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?orderby=title 
 Default is “date” (by publish date).
</blockquote>
<h4>order</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Set the sort order to ascending or descending. See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#order-orderby-parameters
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?order=ASC 
 Default is “DESC”.
</blockquote>
<h4>current_month</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Show only posts from the current month.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?current_month=true 
 This will display only posts from the current month in the feed.
</blockquote>
<h4>disable_excerpt</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Remove all content/excerpt from feed items entirely.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?disable_excerpt=true 
 This will remove the excerpt/content from all feed items.
</blockquote>
<h4>td_primary_cat</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Filter posts by TagDiv Primary Category. This queries posts where the primary category (set by TagDiv themes/plugins) matches the specified category ID.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?td_primary_cat=53 
 Only works with posts that have the TagDiv primary category meta data set. Accepts a single category ID.
</blockquote>
<h4>only_primary_category</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Show only the primary category in the feed’s category nodes instead of all categories. Supports TagDiv, Yoast SEO, and RankMath primary category plugins. If no primary category is set, falls back to the first category.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?only_primary_category=tagdiv 
 https://yourdomain.com/feed/?only_primary_category=yoast 
 https://yourdomain.com/feed/?only_primary_category=rankmath 
 This modifies the category output in the feed, not the post query.
</blockquote>
<h4>taxonomy</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Filter by custom taxonomy slug. Must be used with <code>taxonomy_term</code> or <code>taxonomy_term_not_in</code>. You can NOT use negative IDs in taxonomy filtering.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?taxonomy=genres&taxonomy_term=2
</blockquote>
For filtering by multiple taxonomies simultaneously, use indexed parameters (1 through 10):
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?taxonomy_1=position&taxonomy_term_1=3350&taxonomy_2=region&taxonomy_term_2=2702
</blockquote>
<h4>taxonomy_term</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Specify term IDs to include. Can be a single ID or comma-separated list. Must be used with the <code>taxonomy</code> parameter. For multiple taxonomies, use indexed parameters (taxonomy_term_1, taxonomy_term_2, etc.).
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?taxonomy=genres&taxonomy_term=2
</blockquote>
<h4>taxonomy_term_not_in</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Exclude posts with specified taxonomy terms. Can be a single ID or comma-separated list. Must be used with the <code>taxonomy</code> parameter. For multiple taxonomies, use indexed parameters (taxonomy_term_not_in_1, taxonomy_term_not_in_2, etc.).
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?taxonomy=genres&taxonomy_term=2&taxonomy_term_not_in=1 
 https://yourdomain.com/feed/?taxonomy_1=position&taxonomy_term_not_in_1=3350,3347&taxonomy_2=region&taxonomy_term_not_in_2=2702
</blockquote>
<h4>image_thumbnail_size</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Use a specific WordPress image size instead of manually setting width and height. Adds the image as a <code>media:content</code> element in the feed.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?show_images=true&image_thumbnail_size=medium 
 This will use the medium size image for all featured images. Only valid WordPress thumbnail sizes are supported (thumbnail, medium, large, or custom registered sizes). If the size is not found, the full size image will be used.
</blockquote>
<h4>include_button</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Add a call-to-action button below the excerpt that links to the post.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?include_button=true 
 This will output a button that says “Read More”.
</blockquote>
<h4>button_text</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Change the button text from “Read More” to whatever you would like. Requires <code>include_button=true</code>.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?include_button=true&button_text=Click%20Me
</blockquote>
<h4>button_styles</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Apply inline CSS styles to the button container. Requires <code>include_button=true</code>.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?include_button=true&button_styles=border-radius:200px;%20background-color:%23e1005f;%20margin-top:20px; 
 Please note that if you are using colors like #000 then you will need to encode the # symbol as %23.
</blockquote>
<h4>button_text_styles</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Apply inline CSS styles to the button text. Requires <code>include_button=true</code>.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?include_button=true&button_text_styles=font-size:%2018px; 
 Please note that if you are using colors like #000 then you will need to encode the # symbol as %23.
</blockquote>
<h4>type</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Specify a specialized RSS feed format for different platforms. Supported types: gpc, gns, nextdoor, meta-commerce.
Google Publisher Center (gpc):
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?type=gpc 
 Adds the Media RSS namespace, creates full content in the content:encoded section, and adds featured image as a media:content element.
</blockquote>
Google News Showcase (gns):
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?type=gns 
 Adds the required Google News Showcase namespace and elements.
</blockquote>
NextDoor Newsroom (nextdoor):
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?type=nextdoor 
 Formats the feed for NextDoor News with media elements and featured image support.
</blockquote>
Meta Commerce (meta-commerce):
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?type=meta-commerce 
 Uses Google Shopping feed format for Meta Shopping campaigns. Articles are formatted as “products” with static values (availability=”in stock”, condition=”new”). Use <code>meta_price</code> and <code>meta_currency</code> to set the price (defaults to “0.00 USD”). Works with all other RSS Control parameters.
</blockquote>
<h4>meta_price</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Set the price value for Meta Commerce feed items. Used in the <code>g:price</code> element. Must be used with <code>type=meta-commerce</code>.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?type=meta-commerce&meta_price=9.99 
 Default is “0.00”.
</blockquote>
<h4>meta_currency</h4>
INCLUDED IN PREMIUM VERSION
Set the currency code for Meta Commerce feed items (e.g. USD, CAD, EUR, GBP). Used in the <code>g:price</code> element. Must be used with <code>type=meta-commerce</code>.
Example:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?type=meta-commerce&meta_price=9.99&meta_currency=CAD 
 Default is “USD”.
</blockquote>
All feed types can also be accessed via direct URL:
<blockquote>
https://yourdomain.com/feed/gpc/ 
 https://yourdomain.com/feed/gns/ 
 https://yourdomain.com/feed/nextdoor/ 
 https://yourdomain.com/feed/meta-commerce/
</blockquote>
<h3>Premium Admin Features</h3>
The premium version includes the following admin tools, found under Tools > RSS Control:
<ul>
<li>Feed URL Generator – Visual form to build feed URLs by selecting parameters from dropdowns and inputs. Features AJAX-powered search for posts, categories, tags, and post types. Generates a ready-to-use URL with copy and open buttons.</li>
<li>Feed Preview – Live preview of any feed URL showing the title, first 5 items, detected namespaces, media elements, and images.</li>
<li>Parameter Documentation – Filterable reference for all query parameters with examples, grouped by category.</li>
</ul>

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