Feeds Widget for WordPress
Description
This WordPress widget will display links various relevant feeds for your WordPress blog. It will always at least display links to the two standard feeds: All Entries and All Comments. It will also display links to category feeds, post feeds or search feeds, depending on the current page being viewed.
Feeds Widget will display feed links either with the usual “http://” protocol or the optional “feed://” protocol and can also be configured to display an image (such as a feed icon) before each link.
Feeds Widget requires the Sidebar Widgets plugin.
Installation instructions
- Download the zip file (link below)
- Extract widget-feeds.php
- Upload widget-feeds.php to your wp-content/plugins directory
- Log in to your WordPress blog
- Click on “Plugins”
- Locate the “Feeds Widget” plugin and click “Activate”
- Go to “Presentation” > “Sidebar Widgets” and add the Feeds widget to your sidebar.
Links
Instead of downloading the zip, you can also check out the working copy from the Subversion repository:
svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/widget-feeds/trunk/
Changelog
- 1.3 - 28 September 2007
- [CHG] Cruft-free URL detection for tag pages updated for WordPress 2.3 compatibility
- [ADD] Auto-discovery feed links now included in <head> element for post, search and tag pages
- 1.2 - 15 Jan 2007
- [ADD] Option to specify a feed icon to be placed before links
- 1.1.1 - 4 Aug 2006
- [FIX] Forgot closing PHP tag
- 1.1 - 14 Jul 2006
- [ADD] Show feed URLs for tag pages (currently supported: UltimateTagWarrior plugin)
- [FIX] Properly escape search feed URLs to prevent validation errors
- 1.0 - 14 Jul 2006
- Initial release
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Thanks for the plugin, however, I can’t seem to get it to work! I see it as an active plugin but when I go to the sidebar list and try to put it on my site it doesn’t show up. Anyone else having this problem?
Which versions of WP and the Sidebar Widgets plugin are you using? I’ll try and figure this out but as you can see it works fine on my site so I’m not sure I can reproduce your error.
Hi ketsugi,
I’m afraid I have the same problem as blake there.. I’m running the latest WordPress SVN trunk, with Sidebar Widget version 1.0
Computer Guru, could you also try checking out the latest SVN trunk of the Sidebar Widgets plugin, and see if that helps?
If not, email me via the contact form on my About page and I’ll try to talk to you over ICQ or MSN or something to locate and fix this bug.
Fixed it - I had to DL the latest version from the Automattic site, which is 1.0.somelongnumber.
That’s ridiculous though (@automattic, not you), if it’s not even a minor version upgrade and it breaks compatiblity…. >.
Well, uh… it’s entirely possible I might have something to do with that. While I was setting up this blog, as well as developing the Feeds widget, I submitted some patches to the Sidebar Widgets plugin which were accepted, and it’s always that version which I’ve been testing against. I don’t think I contributed any patches which would have broken anything, but it’s quite possible that I did.
Hi,
I got java erro when I add feed to my site bar. Can you tell me the way to solve this?
Thanks
Could you give more information? I don’t use any Java or even Javascript in the widget so it seems like you might be having a problem with the Sidebar Widgets plugin itself.
Thanks for your reply. I realized the same error in wordpress.com too. Might be it is because of the Side bar widgets.
By the way, I have one question, I am using your script to pull rss from some website charseted utf8 and the characters are broken on my own server. However, it is okey in my bog at http://www.wordpress.com . Do you know the reason why? I am using the exacly same skin.
Thanks
Pulling RSS? Have you perhaps got the wrong plugin? Feeds Widget doesn’t pull any RSS from anywhere; it just displays links to your own blog’s RSS feeds. Character encoding should have absolutely no effect on my plugin.
Hello,
I followed your instructions but am not finding a feed widget to add to the sidebar. I’m using semiologic v4. I added the feed-widget.php file to my plugins file, activated it, but don’t see it as a choice in the sidebar widget window. Your guidance would be appreciated!
Did you remember to activate it in your Plugins list yet? That’s the most likely cause for what you describe.
Just a tip, and prolly something that does hurt some people somewhere… you don’t close the php tag at the end of the plugin (and the earlier version).
You need to have the ?> at the end.
Ooh, thanks for pointing that out, Guru. Fixed now.
Hi, I lately tried this widget and it works fine despite the fact, that the feed icons are not displayed. Couldn’t find a solution for that. Where is the fault? Thx.
The widget does not display any feed icons. I use CSS to style my widget’s list items to add the icon before it.
For example, use a CSS style like this:
#feeds li {background: url(images/feed.png) top left no-repeat;
padding-left: 18px;
}
Where ‘images/feed.png’ is the relative path from CSS file to the feed icon, and 18px is the width of the icon, plus a little space.
Ok, thanks. Couldn’t figure that out. Thought it was implemented and shows up like above on your page. Will try the css. Anyway very nice plugin.
Nice plugin, very cleanly designed.
However, it looks like my attempts to use CSS for the feed icon has awakened the infamous IE6 Peekaboo Bug. - I know it is against everything you believe in, but having the ability to display the RSS icon in the foreground would help A LOT.
Thx!
Great, useful widget. Works fine, but I, too, am having trouble with the CSS. The example given above in the 16 August 2006 comment doesn’t work. I see in the source code for the loaded page that the class is “feed” and not “feeds” — I also see in my stylesheet that some other classes are preceded by a . instead of a #. I’ve tried every combination I could think of, but nothing works, and I don’t know CSS remotely enough to figure it out. I’d love to get those icons on the side, too, and I’d love some advice.
Mark: I used
#feeds libecause the widget should be producing anli#feedslist item for the sidebar that encloses the the feedsulelement. Looking at your HTML, it seems that your utility bar doesn’t seem to have the standard widgets plugin HTML classes and code… how are you using the widgets plugin?Thanks for the quick response! I’m using the widget in the only way I know how — I pulled it from the Available Widgets box up onto Sidebar 2, and that was that. Could this HTML problem you saw be a function of the theme I’ve chosen? Either way, is there a way with CSS to use just the fact that the feed items themselves have to create the style with the icons? Does it help to know that they are inside a nav-secondary DIV tag? I see now in my stylesheet that there is a lot of stuff at the bottom re: nav-secondary, four different tiers of ul/li style information. I’d put the feeds CSS you mentioned in a section on miscellaneous widget and plugins, but perhaps it just needs to be within the section for the correct tier of the nav-secondary material?
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Good evening. I’m having troubles getting your Feed Widget plugin to work.
If you look at http://www.humanecologyforum.org/blogs/ on the right hand side-bar, you’ll see the feeds widget running under the title “Latest Site Feeds”, beneath the search engine.
The problem is that it is not finding the main feeds, it’s only showing http:// as the link. It does however work for the Category Specific feeds and the comment feeds…
I have Feedburner Feed Replacement plugin, and the Feedburner Widget installed and activated as well. I also have the latest Widgets plugin by Automatic.
Any suggestions as to why this might be? Maybe there is a conflict with the other plugins/widgets? And solutions? I’d love to know. I tried to disable the other two feed plugins and nothing seemed to change.
Thanks! I would really appreciate a reply by email, if you could.
-Chris
Any word about the issue I’m facing? Anyone else seen this issue?
-Chris
Hi Chris,
No idea what’s going wrong on your install. What version of WP are you using?
so what exactly does this plugin do? will it display relevant rss links to other resources ?
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