Inlinefeed

InlineFeed

With the inlinefeed plugin you can display and embed RSS/ATOM feeds in your Wordpress posts and pages using the following shortcode:

[inlinefeed rss_feed_url="http://feed.xml"]

NOTE: From version 2.0 you can only use the shortcode [inlinefeed], the old style `<!–rss:[URL]–>` doesn’t work anymore! If you upgrade
from a 1.xx version, then you must change from `<!–rss:[URL]–>` to `[inlinefeed rss_feed_url=”http://feed.xml”]` style..

Look for some examples in the txt file thats included in the zip file.

Download inlinefeed v2.00

Changelog:

2.01 truncate title accpets now a nummeric value. New option, displayfeedname.
2.00 Now uses the wp 2.5 shortcode.
1.62 Error handling and headers are giving descriptions and are clickable.
1.6 Added option newwindow. If you want to open in a new window.
1.5 Fixed a bug that the feed got bumped up to the top of the page.
1.4 XHTML compliant.
1.3 Truncate title.
1.2 minor fixes.
1.1 Initial release.

Click here for some live examples

If you like those little buttons on your site to show off, here is one for inlinefeed:

If u want to use Inlinefeed to display rss feeds that are offered in gzip format, please take a look at the modified class-snoopy.php.

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1littlepaws on Jul 25, 2006 at 12:29:

how do I display feeds?

THis code only diplays Titles

I want to diplay feed like you have

http://kruyt.org/wordpress/inlinefeeds/news/

But dont know how to do the code, and theres no example codes to do this.

Can you help

Many THanks
2dennis on Jul 26, 2006 at 16:56:

Just put the displaydescriptions in the line on true. That’s it.

displaydescriptions:=true
3Lucfan on Aug 4, 2006 at 11:45:

I’ve got this error:
Feed:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /web/htdocs/www.lucfan.com/home/wp/wp-content/plugins/inlinefeed.php on line 42
4Mark on Oct 11, 2006 at 21:58:

I’m also getting the following error intermittantly:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in inlinefeed.php on line 41
5Dennis on Oct 11, 2006 at 23:02:

Mark, Thanks for reporting, I think you get this error if it failes to fetch the feed, I look further into it.
6Barb on Oct 23, 2006 at 21:33:

how do you get the items description to display on a separate line ?

I am getting this:
headlinedescription

I see on your site and other site using this plugin:
headline
description

Everything is working properly - linking, updating - it’s just the display that looks wonky.

thanks!
7Sean on Oct 29, 2006 at 16:39:

HI There,
Is there anyway to use InlineFeeds to display RSS feeds from sites that are password protected?

Cheers,

Sean
8Sean on Oct 29, 2006 at 21:35:

Never mind I found it.
9Dennis on Oct 30, 2006 at 0:20:

Sean,

Did you try the following url setup with inlinefeed…

http://username:password@site.com/feed.xml
10gavin on Nov 6, 2006 at 16:20:

It’s a bit annoying how the feed jumps to the top of a page. I have a post for example that I want a list of feeds at the end of.. but the RSS links all get jumped up to the top.

Anyway to just have them inserted where the insert string is ?
11Dennis on Nov 7, 2006 at 11:54:

Gavin, thanks for reporting, I made already a fix for it. Try the new version 1.5. It should be fixed in this version.
12felix on Nov 11, 2006 at 15:37:

hi dennis, great plugin! how can i change links, to open in a new window? i guess it somewere here:
//return print_r($params);
return RSSImport($params['display'],$params['rss_feed_url'],$params['displaydescriptions'],$params['truncatetitle']);

were do i insert the target=”_blank” ?
Or ist there a nother reason to have them open this way?
13Dennis on Nov 11, 2006 at 20:20:

Felix,

You can’t just inserst target _blank in that line. But it’s a good suggestion. I added the option newwindow in version 1.6.

Just check it out…
14Lex on Nov 15, 2006 at 11:15:

nice plugin! thx for your work!

the only thing i miss is that the website seeding the feed is not clickable.
I hope you understand me ^^
I first used the http://www.underjc.com/?page_id=15 first -rss feed but you can’t
display different numbers of articles for each feed there…

that makes your plugin much confortable!!!

thx for it!
15Genevieve on Nov 22, 2006 at 2:09:

Hi, I get the same error mentioned above:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\Program Files\Ensim\Sitedata\ssc\Inetpub\wwwroot\wp-content\plugins\inlinefeed.php on line 43

Any clues as to what I need to fix?

Thanks!
16Dennis on Nov 22, 2006 at 22:42:

If you got this error: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()

Check your syntax, It means most of the time u made a typo.
17Nick on Nov 27, 2006 at 7:05:

How would I display an RSS feed in my bottom block?
It doesn’t seem to want to accept anything plugin php codes except for the ones that come with the theme.
18dakwah on Nov 27, 2006 at 21:36:

How to use this plug in at the sidebar.

What code should i put?
19Nathan on Jan 8, 2007 at 0:03:

Hi there, a lot of my feeds include images as their description, however they always include text as well. Is it possible to display only the image and leave off the text in the description? Thanks!
20Tony on Jan 22, 2007 at 5:10:

is there a way to display the images or pictures in the freed?
21Dan L. on Jan 30, 2007 at 3:03:

Great plugin, Is there any way to suppress the rss title line?
22Paul M. on Feb 2, 2007 at 2:09:

“Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()…”

This error has been mentioned a few times, and it is also frustrated me! I think it can be due to incorrect syntax, but it seems it can also be due to a failure to successfully retrieve a given feed - perhaps a timeout setting could be made adjustable…?

However, I believe I found another solution, which is to apply the following hack to your code, Dennis. Here are the steps for anyone else game to try (note: your own responsibility if you break something! Solution would be to re-upload the latest version of Dennis’ inlinefeed.php):

1. In Wordpress admin, go to Plugins -> Plugin Editor, and select InlineFeed.

2. Scroll down to about line 40 or 4, where you’ll see the following lines:

$rss = fetch_rss( $feedurl );

$string .= wptexturize(”” . $rss->channel['title'] . “:“);

3. In between these lines, pad in a few line breaks and add the following code block:
if ($rss == false){
$string .= “[Cant retrieve: ".substr($feedurl,0,40)."...]“;
return $string;
}

4. Press the Update File>> button at the bottom, and you should be done.
5. Reload the page. If the whole thing breaks, then refer to my advice above!

This will not of course fix the irretrievable feeds. However, it will mean that your page display should degrade a bit more gracefully.

Good luck.
23Paul M. on Feb 2, 2007 at 5:07:

Beg pardon - I see that entering code snippets got parsed.
Here are steps 2 and 3 from above re-written to be more legible and hopefully more useful:
…
2. Scroll down to about line 40 or 41, where you’ll see the following lines:
$rss = fetch_rss( $feedurl );
$string .= wptexturize("” . $rss->channel['title'] . “:“);

3. In between these lines, pad in a few line breaks and add the following code block:
if ($rss == false){ $string .= “[Cant retrieve: “.substr($feedurl,0,40).”…]”; return $string; }

End.
Paul M.
24Andy Denton on Feb 5, 2007 at 15:01:

Great plugin!

Is there any way to display the descriptions as an “alt tag” to the title link? (similar to OriginalSignal.com or PopUrls.com)??
25toward future on Feb 9, 2007 at 15:31:

I can’t use this plugin
please help me
26joshnunn on Feb 11, 2007 at 3:00:

Nice plug-in - Thank you.

Quick question: I think Wordpress is parsing my titles and adding fancy quotes when I’m adding straight quotes, which are then parsed incorrectly by your plug-in. That is, I put regular straight quotes in ( ” ), which get turned into “ and ” at either end of my title. Then when your plug-in displays my feed on another page it comes out as a question mark ( ? ) (see what I mean at http://nunnone.com - half way down). I’ve tried adding the necessary parsing info into your plug-in myself, but I don’t really know what I’m doing. Is this something that is fixable?

Thank you again for the plug-in.

Josh
27mrng on Feb 16, 2007 at 1:05:

try to add a google shared feed
you will see no description even if you set it “true”
28Mitch on Mar 9, 2007 at 6:01:

My problem starts right after I hit the ‘Activate’ button in the ‘Plugins’ page.

I get the error message:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/mitch/public_html/wp-content/plugins/inlinefeed.php:136) in /home/mitch/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 275

Noticing the message refers to line 136, and seeing that the file actually ends at line 134, I deleted the spaces there, and now it seems to work. Those extra spaces may have been in the file when I downloaded it, or not. In case anybody else experiences this, that would be the reason.

So how about getting images to come through? How would I do that?
29Bierflesje on Mar 29, 2007 at 20:42:

Great plugin, Is there any way to suppress the rss title line?
30Dennis on Apr 26, 2007 at 14:31:

@Mitch,

Those 2 extra lines where in the zip file, I corrected those and the problem should be gone now. Thank you for reporting.

About the images, can you give me a feed with images in it, so I can try.

I see some time also images in my feeds, but most of the time that are banners and dont want to see them.
31xsakex on May 13, 2007 at 18:48:

I have a problem with displaying the “Л”, “л” letters.
32tim on May 31, 2007 at 18:39:

I cannot get this to work. I have wordpress 2.1 and I am trying to get it to display my current events on my PUBLIC google calendar. the google calendar feed doesnt end with a .xml though.. is that the problem? please help! thanks!!
33BGR on Jun 20, 2007 at 1:13:

I installed plugin on k23 v091 on WP 204 and created new page and put in simple code and get

[InlineFeed plugin cant retrieve: http://deals.judysbook.com/feeds/local/c...

what did I do wrong?
34JanWillem on Jun 27, 2007 at 21:27:

Hallo,

Ik ben bezig met een Wordpress weblog aan het opzetten. Dit is helemaal goed gelukt, incl Wpg2 plugin. Maar ik wil mijn foto’s weergeven en dan krijg ik een groene balk onderin een gallery logo. Hoe heb jij dit weggehaald.

Nog een ander probleem is dat mijn informatie van de foto niet wordt weergegeven. Zou je mij kunnen helpen ?

Alvast bedankt
35invloed.net on Jun 28, 2007 at 12:13:

I installed the plugin but it won’t work, can somebody help me?
36Neal on Jul 1, 2007 at 9:16:

Is anyone having trouble with this plugin on 2.2.1?
37invloed.net on Jul 1, 2007 at 16:59:

this is what I see on wp-2.2.1:

[InlineFeed plugin cant retrieve: [http://www.invloed.net/feed/]…]
Can somebody help me?
38invloed.net on Jul 2, 2007 at 21:48:

I see that the script above isn’t displayed so look ad the inline feed readme file
39ordinary boy on Jul 11, 2007 at 6:30:

i install the plug in but i cannot use it. (wp-content/plugins/inlinefeed.php and wp-includes/class-snoopy.php) and activated it

i want i ll publish these rss in my wp blog’s page

http://packetstormsecurity.org/last.xml
http://packetstormsecurity.org/exploits.xml
http://packetstormsecurity.org/tools.xml

i made this

but my ppage looks this http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/865/rssdm2.jpg

how can i do it thnx for ur help
40BGH Quiz on Sep 5, 2007 at 9:50:

Unfortunately for someone who is not a specialist at this the description of how to display the feed is useless. I can see the line in my source code that I copied from the text file, but I can’t see anything on my website.

Can’t you offer a real copy&paste code in a text file that displays something on the website right away?
41Zack on Nov 28, 2007 at 13:33:

Good grief, I’ve been searching for something like this for days now. I’ve tried - FirstRSS but it can’t limit the number feed items. I’ve tried Eter-RSS, can’t make it work … and content related rss plugin which can’t make it to work as well… and thank god i found this plugin..

Thanks Dennis.. you da man! and thanks for the great support! I’ll be checking out your site.. keep up the good work!

Zack
42Yadgar on Dec 20, 2007 at 14:03:

High!

I currently try to implement some 10 newsfeeds on a blog site using WordPress… and I wonder whether it is possible not only to group several feeds belonging to the same category as one single feed, but also to pool all news teasers from all feeds and displaying the 20 or 30 most recent of them all on the front page. Could it be done using your plug-in?

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar
43Mihai on Dec 21, 2007 at 14:00:

Good plugin..I may install it
44Ryan on Mar 12, 2008 at 23:42:

Great plugin. I’ve been searching all over for something this simple.

One question . . . how often does it fetch the feeds, and is there a way to change that?

Thanks!
45Steven Hodson on Mar 16, 2008 at 3:36:

This is the ideal solution if I can get some help as I am pretty well next to a php n00b and what I what to be able to do is insert the within the theme’s php file but what I have tried doesn’t seem to what to work for me so any assistance would be appreciated.

I have tried echo ‘‘; but nothing gets displayed.

hint .. suggest?
46Matthew on Apr 14, 2008 at 21:07:

Is there a way to limit the feed to a certain category from a RSS feed? The script doesn’t seem to take a “Http://…/?&Cat=3″ filter.
47Daniele on Apr 26, 2008 at 1:51:

Great plugin! I’m using this on WP 2.5. Is there any way not to have the name of the website where the RSS feed is coming from? I’m hoping to use this plugin to list the most recent posts of a few of my blogs homepage of my website.
48Steven Jay Cohen on Apr 30, 2008 at 16:48:

Great plugin! I am using it on the homepage of my site. I made a minor modification to remove the Feed Name from your plugin because I am using it to display recent posts onto a static homepage from within my site, so the RSS Feed title is superfluous.

Any chance of adding this “feature” to the plugin directly?

Something like: showfeedname=TRUE/FALSE

Thanks again!

Steven
49Alvaro Degives-Mas on May 20, 2008 at 5:47:

Just popping in to say thank you, thank you, and thank you. Works like a charm on my WP 2.5.1 install!

I’d like a feed to conditionally serve DE Zilvermerk coffee in the morning, and Amstel 1870 in the evening, though. Any chance of that in the next release?
50fp on May 22, 2008 at 14:18:

Hi dennis!

i’ve got a little question:

when i change

“define(’MAGPIE_CACHE_ON’, false)”

to

“define(’MAGPIE_CACHE_ON’,true)”

are the queried feeds then stored in the wordpress database, and the next time a visitor hits the page with the inlinefeed, wordpress takes the entries from database instead of querying the feed server again?

thank you for reply!
51Brian C on May 22, 2008 at 23:14:

Any idea why yahoo pipes rss feeds don’t work in your latest release of InlineFeed? It worked in the last release…

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=74c52614d36fa21703f9e328b17ecda9&_render=rss
52Original'o BLOG'as on May 23, 2008 at 19:12:

http://www.topzone.lt/technews doesn’t work with UTF-8 characters :/

doesn’t dislplay ąčęįėš, instead some strange signs..
53Catherine on May 29, 2008 at 0:19:

Is it possible to get this plugin to display thumbnail images associated with a feed?
54Adolfo Gonzalez on Jun 11, 2008 at 19:35:

Hello! First of all thanks for this useful plugin. And now one little request, is it possible that you surround the plugin output with a div like so we can customize the output of the feed with the theme css? I did it myself in my site, but maybe you can add it offically. Thanks in advance!
55Mark Taylor on Jun 19, 2008 at 9:16:

Dennis, thanks for an great tool.

I am having problems getting a Google Reader feed to get read by INLINE, and same result if I free the feed with http://www.freemyfeed.com. Any suggestions?

Mark
56Crni on Jun 30, 2008 at 19:31:

Hello,

First: very nice plugin

but I have problems to display Croatian chars like this
č Ć Đ Š Ž
small and big chars

can everybody help me please ?

regard
Crni
57Richard on Jul 26, 2008 at 2:45:

Hi there - Thanks for this great plugin. Is there a way please to add some styling to the outputted bullet point lists? Is the plugin output utilising the theme’s stylesheet for this? I would have thought so but when I changed the style sheet’s list format it didn’t make a difference.

Many thanks
richard
58John on Sep 7, 2008 at 15:11:

How about the width of the inline ,some feeds come with images and they are to bigg for the theme i use.
Is there a code i can add to fix this
http://iifbk.larsendata.com/?page_id=36
If you view this page you can see that the menu is under the inlinefeed, it is supose to be at the right and it’s the images that do this and i want to have images in my feed.
59Adam on Oct 8, 2008 at 21:38:

Is there a way to make this work in the page template?
60neo21 on Nov 4, 2008 at 17:18:

do you have a version that supports wp 2.3.x too?