fifthavenuephotographic

TheGridIndex RSS Importer pulls headlines from external RSS feeds into WordPress as posts. Designed to pair with The Grid Index theme but works as a standalone importer with any theme.
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About the name. “TheGridIndex” is a coined product name owned by Fifth Avenue Photographic (the plugin author) and is also the name of a companion WordPress theme by the same author. The plugin is not affiliated with any unrelated project, dataset, or service that happens to share the words “grid” or “index” in its name. Use of the companion theme is optional — the plugin works as a standalone importer with any theme.
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Features:
<ul>
<li>47-feed curated catalog (News, World, Tech, Business, Science) — toggle on with one click</li>
<li>Custom feeds — paste any RSS URL on the Feeds tab</li>
<li>Per-feed check interval (5 min / 15 min / 30 min / hourly)</li>
<li>Configurable post status (publish / draft / pending)</li>
<li>Granular post categories — feeds map to News/World/Tech/Business/Science alongside the catch-all RSS category</li>
<li>Featured image extraction from feed enclosures, media:thumbnail, media:content, or first content image</li>
<li>Minimum image width filter</li>
<li>Persistent GUID dedupe ledger — re-runs never create duplicates, even after posts are deleted</li>
<li>Duplicate detector with bulk merge tool</li>
<li>Feed health monitoring — flags feeds that fetch successfully but import nothing (silent failures)</li>
<li>Embedded knowledge base with 15 FAQ entries</li>
<li>Per-post source attribution meta for theme integration</li>
</ul>
When The Grid Index theme is active, imported posts automatically display:
<ul>
<li>Source attribution chip in the article hero</li>
<li>“Read at [Source]” CTA button below the hero</li>
<li>The “Hide comments on imported RSS posts” Theme Option (if enabled) takes effect</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin is an RSS feed importer. To do its job, it must connect to external (third-party) RSS feed URLs that you choose to enable. No feed is fetched until you explicitly enable it — either by toggling a feed on from the Catalog tab or by pasting a custom RSS URL on the Feeds tab. If you enable no feeds, the plugin makes no outbound requests.
What is sent, when, and why:
When a feed you have enabled is due for a check (per the global cron and that feed’s individual interval — 5 min / 15 min / 30 min / hourly), or when you click “Import Now,” “Force re-import 24h,” or a per-row “Fetch” button, the plugin makes a standard HTTP GET request from your WordPress server to the feed’s URL. That request includes:
<ul>
<li>The feed URL you enabled (target of the request).</li>
<li>A standard browser-style User-Agent header (used because some publishers’ WAFs reject WordPress’s default User-Agent).</li>
<li>Standard HTTP headers (Accept, Accept-Encoding) added by the WordPress HTTP API.</li>
<li>Your server’s outbound IP address (visible to the publisher in their access logs, as with any HTTP request).</li>
</ul>
No personal data about your site visitors is sent. No analytics, no telemetry, no user-identifying information. The plugin does not phone home to the plugin author or to any service the author controls.
Outbound caching. Successful and failed fetches are cached locally on your WordPress site via the standard SimplePie/WordPress transient cache to reduce redundant requests. No fetched content is sent off your server.
Custom feeds you add. If you paste your own RSS URL into the Feeds tab, the plugin fetches that URL on the same schedule. You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to import from that source and for reviewing that source’s terms.
Curated catalog publishers. The plugin ships with a catalog of 47 RSS feeds offered as a convenience. Each publisher operates independently of this plugin and its author. Use of each publisher’s feed is governed by that publisher’s own terms of service and privacy policy.
How to reach each publisher’s current legal pages. Each publisher operates their own legal pages on their own domain. The URLs publishers use for these pages change periodically — they reorganize sites, migrate to new help centers, move to consolidated parent-company legal portals (e.g. Condé Nast, Yahoo, NBCUniversal, Dow Jones, Disney/Paramount). Rather than hard-code per-publisher URLs that go stale, this readme lists each publisher’s home page, which is the canonical, stable entry point. Every publisher’s site footer carries links labeled “Terms” / “Terms of Use” / “Terms of Service” and “Privacy” / “Privacy Policy” / “Privacy Notice” that go to their current legal pages — those footer links are the publisher’s own source of truth and stay current as the publisher updates their policies. If you want to review a publisher’s terms before enabling their feed, open that publisher’s home page and use the footer links. Reasoning for this presentation choice: an earlier version of this readme hard-coded direct terms/privacy URLs for every publisher; within a single review cycle, 12 of those URLs already 404’d because publishers had moved their legal pages. Pointing to home pages eliminates this rot for both users reading this readme today and for any future reviewer.
The table below lists every publisher the plugin can connect to (catalog feeds plus the activation-time starter feeds), grouped by category:
News
<ul>
<li>The New York Times — https://www.nytimes.com/</li>
<li>BBC — https://www.bbc.com/</li>
<li>The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/</li>
<li>NPR — https://www.npr.org/</li>
<li>Al Jazeera — https://www.aljazeera.com/</li>
<li>Google News — https://news.google.com/</li>
<li>USA Today — https://www.usatoday.com/</li>
<li>The Washington Post — https://www.washingtonpost.com/</li>
<li>ABC News (US) — https://abcnews.go.com/ (operated by Disney; legal pages are reached via the Disney/ABC site footer)</li>
<li>CBS News — https://www.cbsnews.com/ (operated by Paramount; legal pages are reached via the CBS/Paramount site footer)</li>
<li>Politico — https://www.politico.com/</li>
<li>NBC News — https://www.nbcnews.com/ (operated by NBCUniversal; legal pages are reached via the NBC/NBCUniversal site footer)</li>
<li>The Hill — https://thehill.com/</li>
<li>ProPublica — https://www.propublica.org/</li>
<li>Time — https://time.com/</li>
<li>Bloomberg (Politics and Technology feeds) — https://www.bloomberg.com/</li>
<li>LA Times — https://www.latimes.com/</li>
</ul>
Tech
<ul>
<li>TechCrunch — https://techcrunch.com/</li>
<li>The Verge (Vox Media) — https://www.theverge.com/ (legal pages governed by Vox Media; reached via the Verge site footer)</li>
<li>Ars Technica (Condé Nast) — https://arstechnica.com/ (legal pages governed by Condé Nast; reached via the Ars Technica site footer)</li>
<li>Wired (Condé Nast) — https://www.wired.com/ (legal pages governed by Condé Nast; reached via the Wired site footer)</li>
<li>Engadget (Yahoo) — https://www.engadget.com/ (legal pages governed by Yahoo; reached via the Engadget site footer)</li>
<li>Hacker News — https://news.ycombinator.com/ (feed served via the hnrss.org community bridge — bridge home: https://hnrss.github.io/)</li>
<li>9to5Mac — https://9to5mac.com/</li>
<li>MIT Technology Review — https://www.technologyreview.com/</li>
<li>ZDNet (Red Ventures) — https://www.zdnet.com/ (legal pages governed by Red Ventures; reached via the ZDNet site footer)</li>
</ul>
Business
<ul>
<li>Financial Times — https://www.ft.com/</li>
<li>Harvard Business Review — https://hbr.org/</li>
<li>Fast Company — https://www.fastcompany.com/ (legal pages governed by Mansueto Ventures; reached via the Fast Company site footer)</li>
<li>Forbes — https://www.forbes.com/</li>
<li>Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones; feed publishes headlines, full articles paywalled) — https://www.wsj.com/ (legal pages governed by Dow Jones; reached via the WSJ site footer)</li>
<li>MarketWatch (Dow Jones) — https://www.marketwatch.com/ (legal pages governed by Dow Jones; reached via the MarketWatch site footer)</li>
<li>CNBC (NBCUniversal) — https://www.cnbc.com/ (legal pages governed by NBCUniversal; reached via the CNBC site footer)</li>
</ul>
Science
<ul>
<li>Science Daily — https://www.sciencedaily.com/</li>
<li>NASA (US government, public domain content) — https://www.nasa.gov/</li>
</ul>
World
<ul>
<li>Deutsche Welle — https://www.dw.com/</li>
<li>France 24 — https://www.france24.com/</li>
<li>CBC News (Canada) — https://www.cbc.ca/news</li>
<li>ABC News (Australia) — https://www.abc.net.au/news</li>
</ul>
AI / Vendor blogs (starter feeds, not in the curated 47-feed catalog)
<ul>
<li>OpenAI — https://openai.com/</li>
<li>Google AI Blog (Alphabet) — https://blog.google/</li>
<li>Hugging Face — https://huggingface.co/</li>
</ul>
Listing above does not imply endorsement or affiliation. If a publisher you want to use is not in the catalog, you can add their RSS URL manually via the Feeds tab; the same disclosure (HTTP GET with browser-style User-Agent) applies.

TheGridIndex RSS Importer

Import RSS feeds into WordPress as posts. Includes a 47-feed curated catalog, per-feed scheduling, dedupe, and feed health monitoring.

David Shanske

It supports adding links to your WordPress posts, pages, and comments, indicating where a syndicated copy is, in the form of a text or icon link. You can do this 
manually or with supported plugins. Also contains a generic UI for syndicating to other sites through your site or a Micropub Client.
<h3>Privacy and Data Storage Information</h3>
This plugin stores syndication links, which can be attached to any post, page, or comment. They can be added to custom post types by filter.
For webmention initiated comments, this information will be added by parsing the source of the webmention. 
It is assumed if you send a webmention, you consent to share this information if it is publicly shared on your page. Our recommendation 
is that site owners should take down information on request.
For comments initiated on the site, there is built-in way to add these links. For posts, they are typically added by retrieving information stored by other plugins for display. It is assumed 
that by installing this plugin, as its intent is to display these links, that you wish to display them.
<h3>Settings</h3>
Settings for the Syndication Links plugin can be found in the main WordPress “Settings” tab in the 
admin dashboard, or if the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/indieweb" rel="ugc">Indieweb plugin</a> is installed, under the Indieweb tab. The options provided allow for various ways of presenting the syndication links in posts. Syndication Links by default will add links to the content. You can remove this in your plugin if you wish to call the display function directly.
The settings include the following options as follows with either a set of buttons, a check box (with a check indicating that the feature is “on”) or an optional text field:
<ul>
<li>Display Text – Offers options to display text only, icons only, icons and text, and no display(hidden icons).</li>
<li>Size – Choice of small, medium, or large size icons.</li>
<li>Black Icons – Checking the box defaults to a “black” social media icon set.</li>
<li>Show on Front Page, Archive Page, and Search Results – If checked the icons will show on pages other than a single view. If not checked, the icons will be hidden by the links will remain.</li>
<li>Show on Feed – If checked the icons will show in your RSS feed as well</li>
<li>Text Before Links – This is the text that appears before the Display Text/Icons (as indicated above). The default text is “Syndicated to:” but can be modified if desired.</li>
</ul>
Note: The particular CSS of your theme may change the display and output of the text and some of the icons.
<h3>Supported POSSE plugins and implementations</h3>
The plugin supports automatically pulling data from plugins that syndicate your content so you don’t need to do it manually. For anything not built in, integation is easy with a simple filter for potential use with any other plugin.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g/" rel="ugc">Social Networks Autoposter</a> – Syndication Links supports Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr since version 1.0.0</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/tumblr-crosspostr" rel="ugc">Tumblr Crosspostr</a> – Supports Syndication Links since version 0.8.1</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-crosspost" rel="ugc">WordPress Crossposter</a> – Supports Syndication Links since version 0.3.2</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/diasposter/" rel="ugc">Diasposter</a> – Supports Syndication Links since version 0.1.8</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-to-twitter/" rel="ugc">WP-To_Twitter</a> – Supported by the plugin since version 4.2.3</li>
</ul>
Using the optional Syndication feature(disabled by default) you can syndicate your posts to:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://brid.gy" rel="nofollow ugc">Bridgy</a> – Bridgy is a service that allows you to post to various sites. Signup is required. It currently supports Github, Mastodon and Flickr. The plugin supports Bridgy Publish via Micropub by default.</li>
<li><a href="https://fed.brid.gy" rel="nofollow ugc">Bridgy Fed</a> – Bridgy Fed is a service that allows you to interact with federated social networks using webmentions.</li>
<li><a href="https://micro.blog" rel="nofollow ugc">Micro.blog</a> – Micro.blog is a social network and publishing platform for independent microblogs, created by Manton Reece. It uses a custom feed you can add to Micro.blog to support this.</li>
<li><a href="https://pinboard.in" rel="nofollow ugc">Pinboard</a> – Pinboard is a bookmarking site. The support for this is currently only enabled if you have Post Kinds enabled, due to the difficulty in getting a URL. It will bookmark the URL of any object you are citing.</li>
<li>Custom Webmention Syndication – Add any site that supports publishing by sending a webmention by configuring it in the settings page</li>
</ul>
Will be looking to integrate with other plugins to add more options and invite developers to add support if they wish as the interface is simple. 
The goal of the interface is not only can you syndicate via Micropub, but in the editor using a simple checkbox.
<h3>Credits</h3>
In no particular order…
<ol>
<li>The <a href="https://indieweb.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Indieweb</a> community of users and all users of this plugin</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/meitar" rel="nofollow ugc">Meitar Moscovitz</a> for fixes and code contributions related to support of the plugin in his various plugins.</li>
<li>Justin Tadlock for the initial <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2013/08/14/social-nav-menus-part-2" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Icons</a> design.</li>
<li>Jihaisse and Peter Molnar for the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g/" rel="ugc">SNAP</a>, courtesy of <a href="https://github.com/jihaisse/wordpress-syndication" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Syndication</a></li>
<li><a href="https://https://simpleicons.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple-Icons</a> for their icon packs for logos. Simple Icons is licensed under CC0 v1.0 Universal.</li>
<li><a href="http://genericons.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Genericons Neue</a> for their generic icon packs. Genericons Neue is licensed under the GPLv2.</li>
<li><a href="http://stream.boffosocko.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Chris Aldrich</a> for many suggestions on improving the display and for screenshots.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer" rel="nofollow ugc">PHPCS</a> is used with the <a href="https://github.com/WordPress-Coding-Standards/WordPress-Coding-Standards" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress</a> and <a href="https://github.com/wimg/PHPCompatibility" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP Compatibility</a> Standards in order to ensure compatibility with supported versions of PHP and enact WordPress Coding Standards.</li>
<li>GitHub Actions is used to actively test against various PHP versions</li>
</ol>

Syndication Links

This plugin is not perfect but is very useful and a great way of getting involved in the indieweb.

Get on board

Easy to use, works with Gutenberg!


It's convenient to have remote links all in the footer, where they're noticeable but not obtrusive, and marked up so that IndieWeb software will recognize them. Works great with both WordPress and ClassicPress.



I've had less success trying to auto-post through Bridgy, but that's at least partly on Bridgy's side.


Simple tool to keep track of cross-posts

Link to copies of your cross-posted content in other social networks or websites.

TheGridIndex RSS Importer vs Syndication Links