Fetching and displaying RSS feeds on your site
I’ve been looking high and low for a simple and working solution for displaying a feed in my site. If your site is widget-enabled, you can easily display another feed with the RSS widget. But if you are not widget-enabled, or you want to put your feed somewhere else, you are stuck. I tried a whole bunch of plugins, and finally ended up using FeedBurner’s BuzzBoost feature (under the Publicize tab when you are logged in), which is nice but puts a little “Headlines by FeedBurner” tagline at the bottom, which you might not want to appear in the middle of your page.
And then a revelation – Blue Anvil explains how WordPress has RSS fetching capabilities built in. You can call an RSS feed with one of two functions:
- fetch_rss
- wp_rss
See Blue Anvil’s explanation of how these functions work>>
See the WordPress codex entries on wp_rss and fetch rss>>
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