Waterloo Plugins

You can improve the default WordPress RSS feed to include:
<ul>
<li>This plugin will add post thumbnail to RSS feed as “media:content” and “enclosure” tags.</li>
<li>Image is also added to HTML part of “description” and “content:encoded” tags.</li>
<li>Make RSS Feeds look pretty.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Post thumbnail</h4>
Add post thumnail to each post’s excerpt and full text (if enabled in WordPress configuration). 
Image will be added just before text of each post in RSS feed. 
Post thumbnail is also added as media:content and enclosure tag to RSS feed.
<h4>Full-text RSS Feed when accessed via special URL</h4>
You can access RSS Feed with full content posts even when WordPress is set to RSS “Excerpt only” mode.

Better RSS Feeds

Better RSS Feeds improves the appearance of your RSS feeds.

Ash Durham

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available provides choice in how your feed displays on your pages. You can choose how many items are returned onto the page, whether the feed paginates and whether you 
display those pages via AJAX giving your users a simple way to view the feed your providing.
You have control on the information from the feed that is returned on the page and how it is displayed by using variables within a HTML layout for each item. 
Variables have been setup to give you choice in what details are shown for the items.
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<h3>Options</h3>
<h4>Shortcode Options</h4>
<ul>
<li>feedaddress 
Default – ‘no feed’ | This field takes the external web address(es) of the feed you want to pull. To list multiple addresses, separate with ‘|’.</li>
<li>display 
Default – ‘5’ | Number of items to list on output</li>
<li>order 
Default – ‘desc’ | List order of items. Options are ‘desc’, ‘asc’ and ‘none’</li>
<li>dateformat 
Default – ‘j F Y, g:i a’ | Date string format. This can take text, some characters will need to be escaped (eg ‘\P\o\s\t\e\d o\n \t\h\e jS \of F \i\n Y’). View <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php" rel="nofollow ugc">PHP date page</a> for more information.</li>
<li>target 
Default – ‘_self’ | Target of the links. Standard options are ‘_self’, ‘_blank’, ‘_parent’ and ‘_top’.</li>
<li>titlelength 
Default – ‘all’ | Numeric length of the output title. If no limit, ‘all’ is the value.</li>
<li>descriptionlength 
Default – ‘all’ | Numeric length of the output description. If no limit, ‘all’ is the value.</li>
<li>contentlength 
Default – ‘all’ | Numeric length of the output content. If no limit, ‘all’ is the value.</li>
<li>readmorelink 
Default – false | Turns on the “ream more” link when shortening the description or content fields. Options are true or false</li>
<li>readmoretext 
Default – ‘Read more’ | The text you would like on the “Read more” link</li>
<li>renderhtml 
Default – false | Enable rendering of HTML from the description/content data. Options are true or false</li>
<li>format 
Default – ‘< ?= htmlspecialchars('##PUBDATE####LINK####DESCRIPTION##’); ?>’ | Format of the output items. Available variable below</li>
<li>class 
Default – ” | Class attached to the list parent</li>
<li>timezone 
Default – ‘UTC’ | Set timezone for the output. View <a href='http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php' rel="nofollow ugc">PHP timezones</a> for more information on options</li>
<li>paging 
Default = true | Enable paging of the RSS. The ‘display’ option then becomes how many items per page. Options are true or false</li>
<li>pagingtype 
Default = ‘paging’ | Choice of the type of paging output. Options are ‘paging’, ‘numbers’ or ‘both’</li>
<li>paginglocation 
Default = ‘bottom’ | Choice of the location of the pagination output. Options are ‘bottom’, ‘top’ or ‘both’</li>
<li>ajax 
Default – false | Enable AJAX loading. Instead of previous and next links for paging, this will display a ‘view more posts’ link which will allow the following page to load in underneath the existing list, and will continue to do so until the list is complete.</li>
<li>nextpagetext 
Default – ‘Next Page’ | Text on the ‘next page’ link (only displays when paging is on, pagingtype is ‘paging’ or ‘both’ and ajax is off).</li>
<li>prevpagetext 
Default – ‘Previous Page’ | Text on the ‘previous page’ link (only displays when paging is on, pagingtype is ‘paging’ or ‘both’ and ajax is off).</li>
<li>nextpageclass 
Default – ‘rss_pagination_next’ | Class on the ‘next page’ link (only displays when paging is on, pagingtype is ‘paging’ or ‘both’ and ajax is off).</li>
<li>prevpageclass 
Default – ‘rss_pagination_prev’ | Class on the ‘previous page’ link (only displays when paging is on, pagingtype is ‘paging’ or ‘both’ and ajax is off).</li>
<li>activeclass 
Default – ‘rss_pagination_active’ | Class on the ‘active page’ link (only displays when paging is on, pagingtype is ‘numbers’ or ‘both’ and ajax is off).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Format Variables</h4>
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p>You can control the output by defining what information is output in the format by using variables. These variables are defined by an uppercase word surrounded by hashes (2 hashes on either side). The available variables are: 
* ##FEEDTITLE## 
Outputs the title of the FEED the items are coming from. 
* ##PUBDATE## 
Outputs the date the item was posted. The date format controls the output of this. 
* ##TITLE## 
Outputs the TITLE of the item. There is no link to the original post on this (use ##LINK## for a title with link) 
* ##LINK## 
Outputs the TITLE of the item with a link to the original page. 
* ##DESCRIPTION## 
Outputs the excerpt of the item. This can be shortened further using the ‘descriptionlength’ option. 
* ##CONTENT## 
Outputs the content of the item. This can be shortened using the ‘contentlength’ option. 
* ##CATEGORIES## 
Outputs a list of attached categories of the item 
* ##CATEGORY## 
Outputs the first category of the item 
* ##AUTHORS## 
Outputs a list of attached authors of the item 
* ##AUTHOR## 
Outputs the first author of the item 
* ##CONTRIBUTORS## 
Outputs a list of attached contributors of the item 
* ##CONTRIBUTOR## 
Outputs the first contributor of the item 
* ##COPYRIGHT## 
Outputs any attached copyright text 
* ##ENCLOSURE## 
Outputs an attached image, if any 
* ##GUID## 
Outputs the unique ID for the item in the feed 
* ##UNIQUEKEY## 
Outputs the unique key for the item in the feed

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