Feedwordpress – show feed on sidebar

I believe FeedWordPress is a ‘reblogger’, that posts feeds into your blog. What you want is an ‘aggregator’, like my CG-FeedRead plugin (part of my CG-PowerPack), which is made to grab the latest feed data and display in the sidebar or on a Page.

Thanks, i have seen you script, but work on wp 2.0.2 ?

Marcomail: So you want to read some other site’s feed and show it in your sidebar, yes?

Here’s what you need to read: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/fetch_rss

No plugins necessary.

Also, if you use widgets in your sidebar, the default RSS widget uses the same basic method as described in the codex, and you don’t have to muck about with any code or anything.

David’s CG-Feedread is indeed quite good and I’ve used it myself, but for simple feed displays, I think the built in methods are much easier to work with. I do highly recommend his CG-Amazon plugin and CG-WhatTunes plugins though. Use them myself. They’re very handy.

Yes, CG-FeedRead works fine with 2.0.2. Most of the other plugins also work, albeit with a one or two line fix needed at the moment. ?? CG-FeedRead has no dependencies on WP itself. CG-FeedRead is also good for non-coders, as it does a lot of work ‘under the covers’ that using fetch_rss requires (not to mention you have to add an include manually as well…), and uses its own XML retrieval and parsing engine (which has advantages and disadvantages! ?? ).

-d