Yann at WP&amp;Co

<h4>Syndicate RSS feeds into your user or group Activity stream</h4>
<p>Select any kind of RSS feeds that will be agregated into your BuddyPress activity stream. For example, to import an existing blog.</p>
<p>Each BuddyPress user can select as many external RSS feeds as they want. They will be aggregated (mixed) into their activity feed automatically, with a title, an excerpt and a link to the original post.</p>
<p>External blogs can also be aggregated into group activity feeds the same way.</p>
<p>A simple way to promote any external blog content inside a BuddyPress community.</p>
<p>Uses WP-cron to update feeds automatically.</p>
<p>Compatible with PHP5.</p>
<p>Requires the BuddyPress social plugin for WordPress to be installed and configured (will not work and is not useful without BuddyPress / will cause a fatal error upon installation if BuddyPress is not activated).</p>
<h4>Usage guide</h4>
<ul>
<li>Activate plugin</li>
<li>Go to My account > Settings > Import a blog</li>
<li>Add one or more RSS feed URL addresses with optional title</li>
<li>Wait for one hour, or click the “Manually run hourly process” button in the plugin’s option page</li>
<li>Latest blog post title and excerpts will start appearing in your BuddyPress personal activity feed page</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage for group feeds</h4>
<ul>
<li>Go to Groups > Your group > Admin > Import blogs</li>
<li>Add one or more RSS feed URL addresses with optional title</li>
<li>Wait for one hour, or click the “Manually run hourly process” button in the plugin’s option page</li>
<li>Latest blog post title and excerpts will start appearing in BuddyPress activity pages of group members</li>
</ul>
<h4>New optional settings of version 2.x</h4>
<ul>
<li>Maximum number of feeds a user or group can aggregate can be setup in the “YD BuddyPress Feed Syndication” option page with the “Limit number of feeds to aggregate to a maximum of:” setting.</li>
<li>External blog links can be made to open in a different window by ticking the “Open feed links in new window.” checkbox in the plugin’s settings page.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Active support</h4>
<p>Drop me a line on my <a href="http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-buddypress-feed-syndication" title="Yann Dubois' BuddyPress Feed Syndication plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">YD BuddyPress Feed Syndication site</a> to report bugs, ask for specific feature or improvement, or just tell me how you’re using the plugin.<br />
It’s still in an active development stage, with new features coming out on a regular basis.</p>
<h4>Language versions & translation credits</h4>
<ul>
<li>English: Yann Dubois</li>
<li>French: Yann Dubois</li>
<li>Italian: Giancarlo Cuzzolin ( <a href="http://uajika.tk/" title="Uajika - The social network" rel="nofollow ugc">Uajika</a> )</li>
<li>Russian: Diogen Platonovitch ( http://platonovich.ru/ )</li>
</ul>
<p>All those translations are provided in the distribution. The plugin is fully internationalized and can easily be translated into any other language.</p>
<h4>Funding</h4>
<p>Original development and improvements of this plugin was kindly funded by http://www.selliance.com -> Please visit their site to see this plugin in action!</p>
<h3>Revisions</h3>
<ul>
<li>2.1.0. Production release / new features / bugfix of 2011/08/27</li>
<li>2.0.4. Bugfix release 4 of 2011/08/26</li>
<li>2.0.3. Bugfix release 3 of 2011/08/26</li>
<li>2.0.2. Bugfix release 2 of 2011/08/26</li>
<li>2.0.1. Bugfix release 1 of 2011/08/26</li>
<li>2.0.0. Production release / new features / bugfix of 2011/08/25</li>
<li>1.1.0. Production release / bugfix of 2011/07/22</li>
<li>1.0.0. Production release of 2011/07/18</li>
<li>0.1.1. Beta release of 2011/07/15</li>
<li>0.1.0. Initial beta release of 2011/07/13</li>
</ul>
<h3>Did you like it?</h3>
<p>Drop me a line on http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-buddypress-feed-syndication</p>
<p>And… <em>please</em> rate this plugin –></p>


YD BuddyPress Feed Syndication

Syndicate RSS feeds into your user or group Activity stream

C. Johnson

<ul>
<li>Author: <a href="http://feedback.radgeek.com/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">C. Johnson</a></li>
<li>Project URI: <a href="http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/</a></li>
<li>License: GPL 2. See License below for copyright jots and tittles.</li>
</ul>
<p>FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress weblog, and then the content it syndicates appears as a series of special posts in your WordPress posts database. If you syndicate several feeds then you can use WordPress’s posts database and templating engine as the back-end of an aggregation (“planet”) website. It was developed, originally, as a utility/hobby project, because I needed a more flexible replacement for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051029095046/http://www.planetplanet.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Planet</a> for aggregator sites that I administered.</p>
<p>FeedWordPress is designed with flexibility, ease of use, and ease of configuration in mind. You’ll need a working installation of WordPress (version <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5" rel="nofollow ugc">4.5</a> or later), and it helps to have SFTP or FTP access to your web host. The ability to create cron jobs on your web host is helpful but not required.</p>
<h3>Using and Customizing FeedWordPress</h3>
<p>FeedWordPress has many options which can be accessed through the WordPress Dashboard, and a lot of functionality accessible programmatically through WordPress templates or plugins. For further documentation of the ins and outs, see the documentation at the <a href="http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">FeedWordPress project homepage</a>.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>The FeedWordPress plugin is copyright © 2005-2021 by Charles Johnson. It uses code derived or translated from:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://laughingmeme.org/archives/002203.html" rel="nofollow ugc">wp-rss-aggregate.php</a> by <a href="kellan@protest.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Kellan Elliot-McCrea</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.simplepie.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">SimplePie</a> feed parser by Ryan Parman, Geoffrey Sneddon, Ryan McCue, et al.</li>
<li><a href="http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">MagpieRSS</a> feed parser by <a href="kellan@protest.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Kellan Elliot-McCrea</a></li>
<li><a href="http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_finder/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ultra-Liberal Feed Finder</a> by <a href="mark@diveintomark.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Mark Pilgrim</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/" rel="ugc">WordPress Blog Tool and Publishing Platform</a></li>
</ul>
<p>according to the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a>.</p>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU General Public License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>


FeedWordPress

I've been using FWP for years. I used to have several sites that relied on it for aggregating ebay stuff. However, on shared hosting, and with MANY syndicated sources, my sites often got banned for hogging the server.
The "problem" is that FWP is so excellent at what it does, I got carried away with the number of sources. 
I've been using a different aggregator for a while, but it doesn't have the flexibility of FWP: setting Category, Tags and custom fields per feed is awesome.  
Hence, I've come back to using FWP, but not using the scheduling features, and taking it easy on the number of sources.  
If you are NOT on a shared server, just ignore my comments and "fill yer boots". 

Excellent! Be careful on shared hosting, though..

I struggled with multiple RSS aggregation plugins, all of which were paid subscription plugins. I had already paid for one and after hours, I could not make it import enclosures to PowerPress. FeedWordpress took about 5 minutes to set up and worked perfectly. It also had the feature to all for reimportation of items which the paid plugin lacked. This free plugin is in every way better than the commercial alternatives.

Simple Install and Works Great

Have used FeedWP for multiple projects over the decades, for monitoring news on specific topics. Works flawlessly, and offers many valuable options. A well-designed workhorse.

Excellent and dependable.

FeedWordPress syndicates content from feeds you choose into your WordPress weblog.

YD BuddyPress Feed Syndication vs FeedWordPress