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RSSImport

A WordPress plugin to add links to RSS feeds. Product ImageOn pages 165-166 of WordPress 2: Visual QuickStart Guide, Miraz and I discuss CG-Feedread, a plugin that enables you to list the titles (with links) of posts on another blog based on RSS feed content. We use the plugin on our WPVQS.com Web site to list content from Miraz's Mactips.info site and my An Eclectic Mind site. I hate to admit it, but I never really liked that plugin. It came as part of a package and I was only interested in that one part. So today, while attempting to add the same feature to two of my WordPress-based sites, I looked for a different, simpler solution. And I found it: RSSImport by Frank Bueltge. RSSIMport in ActionRSSImport is a one-trick pony. It enables you to add a list of posts from any RSS feed. There are four options: the number of posts to list, the URL of the feed, whether the list should include descriptions, and whether the post title should be truncated to 30 characters. You install and activate the plugin like any other plugin. (You can refer to Chapter 7 of our book or consult the documentation that comes with the file if you need help.) Then place the following code in your template file -- most likely sidebar.php -- where you want the list to appear:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function RSSImport() in /home2/aneclect/public_html/mariasguides/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()'d code on line 11