aatanasov

<p>This is a Gutenberg block that pulls posts from an RSS feed.</p>
<p>The plugin uses the <code>fetch_feed</code> WordPress function to display the entries from a feed on your website (https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/fetch_feed).</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Gutenberg has to be installed on your WordPress instance in order to use this plugin.</p>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<p>Once the plugin is installed, you’ll first need to enter the URL of your feed URL. There is a helpful button for validating the feed URL. If there is something wrong, an error will appear.</p>
<p>Here are the available feed options:<br />
 1. Number of posts to be shown on the front-end. The default number is 10.<br />
 2. Whether to show the descriptions of the posts on the front-end.<br />
 3. Whether to show the dates of the posts on the front-end.<br />
 4. Whether to show the content of the posts on the front-end.</p>
<h3>WordPress Hooks</h3>
<p>There are a few WordPress hooks that allows you to modify the output. All of them are related to the front-end.</p>
<p><strong>Actions</strong></p>
<pre><code>grf_before_items -- called before displaying the feed on your site.

grf_before_item -- called before each feed entry.

grf_after_item -- called after each feed entry.

grf_after_items -- called after all listed entries.
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<p><strong>Filters</strong></p>
<pre><code>grf_frontend_output -- allows you to modify the HTML markup that will be displayed on the site.<h3>Front-end error messages</h3>
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<p>In case, a feed isn’t configured or it isn’t a valid one, the following messages might appear on the page that uses the custom block:<br />
 – Missing feed URL: <code>Please set the URL of the RSS feed through the WordPress dashboard.</code><br />
 – Incorrect feed: <code>Please make sure the provided URL is a valid feed.</code><br />
 – No posts: <code>No feed items found.</code></p>


RSS Feed Block (Gutenberg)

This is a WordPress plugin that registers a Gutenberg block. The block displays posts from an RSS feed.

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.

RSS Feed Block (Gutenberg) vs Better RSS Widget