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<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

Boone Gorges

Joan Fragaszy Troyano

lmrhody

Amanda Regan

Jeremy Boggs

Aram Zucker-Scharff

PressForward

<p>PressForward is a free plugin that provides an editorial workflow for content aggregation and curation within the WordPress dashboard. It is designed for bloggers and editorial teams who wish to collect, discuss, and share content from a variety of sources on the open web.</p>
<p><strong>PressForward helps you:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Collect content from the web via a feed reader and a bookmarklet</li>
<li>Discuss content through a collaborative editing interface</li>
<li>Share content using best practices for attribution and citation</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Collect</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Aggregate content using RSS/Atom feeds</li>
<li>Capture any web content with a bookmarklet</li>
<li>Import full text, image, video content, and post metadata</li>
<li>Batch add feeds using OPML files</li>
<li>Integrate standardized content with <a href="https://www.readability.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Readability</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Discuss</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Discuss content internally with private commenting</li>
<li>Count nominations from teams of contributors and editors</li>
<li>Expose item metadata, including the name of the source and method of nomination</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Share</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Allow contributors to send items directly to their own Twitter account</li>
<li>Attach full content, attribution link, canonical URL, and metadata to WordPress Posts as Draft</li>
<li>Republish any content type supported by your theme (text, image, quote, snippet, etc.)</li>
<li>Optional auto-redirect back to original source</li>
<li>Export an RSS feed that combines all content from site’s feed list</li>
</ul>
<p>Instructions for use are found in our <a href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">User Manual</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki/FAQ#how-does-pressforward-compare-to-other-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">See how we compare to other WordPress plugins</a>.</p>
<p>The PressForward Plugin has been developed and maintained by <a href="https://digitalscholar.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Digital Scholar</a> since 2019. <a href="https://boone.gorg.es" rel="nofollow ugc">Boone B. Gorges</a> is the lead developer. The plugin was originally developed by the <a href="https://chnm.gmu.edu" rel="nofollow ugc">Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media</a> at <a href="https://gmu.edu" rel="nofollow ugc">George Mason University</a> as part of the <a href="https://pressforward.org" rel="nofollow ugc">PressForward Project</a>, generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Previous developers include <a href="http://aramzs.me/" rel="nofollow ugc">Aram Zucker-Scharff</a>, and Jeremy Boggs. PressForward is free to use and modify under a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU GPL3 license</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki/Devbook" rel="nofollow ugc">Detailed information about our code</a> can be found on our <a href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Wiki</a>.</p>



This does so much more than PressThis! ever did and it does it well. The developers are also responsive to useful feedback and ideas.


More than just a replacement for Press This!

PressForward provides an integrated workflow for curating content aggregated from the web.

YD BuddyPress Feed Syndication vs PressForward