RSS Feeds News Blocks

Description

RSS Feeds News Blocks like Popurls, Alltop, Netvibes. RSS Feed parser plugin which uses shortcode to fetch and display single and multiple RSS feeds. New style like The Huffington Post or Drudge repport

Features:

• Fetch as many RSS feeds as you want
• RSS Feeds News Blocks will find and play Youtube video, mp4, .ogg and many others HTML5 videos from media enclosure the description and play all Videos (Open in a popup video player) and Audios files, mp3, .ogg and many others audio files. It use the HTML5 Video player PLYR. Demo: Podcast, MP3, OR Video MP4,  Audio, Youtube Channel or Youtube User videos  (demo)
• Show Youtube channel, Youtube user video, find and play Vimeo video
• Display the RSS feed wherever you want using shortcode, including text widgets
• Control whether to display the entire RSS feeds content or just an excerpt
• Control how many words display in the excerpt
• Control whether it has a Read more link or not
• Control whether links open in a new window or not
• Simple, lightweight, and fast
• Easy to setup
• Find thumbnail or first image from enclosure or item description (Find images where others RSS plugin fail)
• Set thumbnails size from shortcode
• Set feed cache time (in seconds)
• Control items order
• Show more or show less items buttons
• Responsive for mobiles and tablets. Choose between 1 to 6 columns width
• Translation ready (English, Français).
• Show NEW items of the day with a orange dot at the right of each daily NEW items
• Show images description
• Display the RSS feed title and show description and image on hover like Popurls, Alltop, Netvibes, Theweblist. PopUrls style Demo
• PLUS buttons to show or hide the descriptions and images with a beautifull animation, it will find and play Youtube video, mp4, .ogg and many others HTML5 videos in enclosure or in the description
• RSS Feeds News Blocks will find will find and play Youtube video, mp4, .ogg and many others HTML5 videos in enclosure or in the description and play all Videos (Open in a popup video player) and Audios files, mp3, .ogg and many others audio files in enclosure or in the description
• Find and show RSS Favicons and Icons. Cache the Favicons url for faster loading
• Aggregate multiple feeds into one list
• Hide RSS broken image Show full feed if data content exist in the RSS Feed
• Merge multiples feeds in one: demo
• Insert Google adsense Ads between RSS Feeds items (Only available in Newspaper style)

Live Demo:

Altnews.top was created with the RSS Feeds News Blocks pro version plugin with the newspaper style in shortcode: newspaper=”1″

Multiples Demo with shortcodes example

All Newspaper style Demo:

• Huffington style (1) Demo
• Huffington Merged style (1) Demo
• Huffington style (2) Demo
• Style 4 Pinterest: Demo Style (4)
• Style 5 Pinterest: Demo Style (5) 
• Drudge Repport Demo Style (3) 

[newsblocks-merge]
[newsblocks url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/breitbart,http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/rss.xml,http://www.veteranstoday.com/feed/,https://sputniknews.com/export/rss2/archive/index.xml,https://www.rt.com/rss/,http://www.lifezette.com/feed/,http://rss.radio-canada.ca/fils/nouvelles/nouvelles.xml,https://conservativedailypost.com/feed/" items="10" max_items="15" excerpt="22" thumbnail="true" cache="10800" source="false" columns="3" newspaper="1" merge="true" blocktitle="Alternative news" splash="latest"]
[newsblocks url="https://feeds.feedburner.com/zerohedge/feed,http://www.independent.co.uk,http://russia-insider.com/en/taxonomy/term/191/all/feed/,http://wearechange.org/feed/,http://theantimedia.org/feed/" items="10" max_items="15" excerpt="22" thumbnail="true" cache="10800" source="false" columns="3" newspaper="1" merge="true" blocktitle="politic"]
[newsblocks url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/wmexperts,https://www.cnet.com/rss/news/,http://feeds.gawker.com/lifehacker/full,https://www.smashingmagazine.com/feed/,http://www.androidpolice.com/feed/" items="10" max_items="15" excerpt="22" thumbnail="true" cache="10800" source="false" columns="3" newspaper="1" merge="true" blocktitle="technology"]
[/newsblocks-merge]

Simple Shortcode Example:

[newsblocks url="https://fr.sputniknews.com/export/rss2/archive/index.xml,http://feeds.feedburner.com/elise/simplyrecipes,http://feeds.feedburner.com/boingboing/ibag,feeds.bbci.co.uk/sport/0/football/rss.xml,http://feeds.feedburner.com/readwriteweb,http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews" items="5" max_items="10" excerpt="50" thumbnail="70" cache="10800" source="true" columns="3"]

Properties:

• url – The url of the feed you wish to fetch from. For multiple urls simply use a comma between them.
• items – Number of items from the feed you wish to fetch (Default: 10)
• orderby – Order the items by date or reverse date (date or date_reverse)
• title – Whether to display the title or not (true/false, defaults: true)
• excerpt – How many words you want to display for each item (Default: 0 or infinite, use ‘none‘ to remove the excerpt). Remove the excertpt options or enter 0 for the full RSS Feed articles, texts and images if available.
• read_more – Whether to display a read more link or not (true/false, defaults: true)
• new_window – Whether to open the title link and read more link in a new window (true/false, defaults: true)
• thumbnail** – Whether or not you want to display a thumbnail, and if so, what size you want it to be (true/ false, defaults: true. Inserting a number will change the size, default: 50)
• source – Whether to display the source or not (true/false, defaults: true)
• date – Whether to display the publish date or not (true/false, defaults: true)
• cache – How long you want the feed to cache the results in seconds (Default: 43200, (12 hours)). The first loading will be slow but it will be cached for the cache time you setup.
• merge – Merge multiple RSS in one. (true/false default: false)
• fetchfeed – Merge multiple RSS in one. (true/false default: false)  More infos below.
• blocktitle – use this to enter your own title at the beginning of the feed like: News Press
• tooltip – Show description in tooltip like Popurls, Alltop, Netvibes *(true or false, defaults: false).
• max_items – Use this options for the show more items link. EX: items=”10″ max_items=”15″ It will show 10 items and will reveal 5 more items when the user will click ↓ Show more.
• newspaper – Choose between News papers styles (1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5) Huffington style (1) Demo | Huffington Merged style (1) Demo | Huffington style (2) Demo | Style 4 Pinterest: Demo Style (4)  | Style 5 Pinterest: Demo Style (5)  | Drudge Repport Demo Style (3) ex: newspaper=”3″
• splash – Splash news on top. Give a Unique name / ID in this options to show the right Splash News on top of all Newsfeeds block. First news appear on top with a big title and big image like the Huffington Post or Drudge Repport (true or false, defaults is false) In merge mode option, You should add the splash option only to the first feeds inside the [newsblocks-merge] shortcode (see below)
• imgtop – Show image before or after title, if true, the image will be before the feed item title (true or false, defaults is false)
• lazyload – Use RSS Feeds News blocks with a lazy load plugin like Lazy Load XT (the best one to me) (true or false, defaults is false) Or use any lazy load plugin who use the data-src tag to work with RFNB like data-src=”img/image.jpg”
• favicons – Show RSS Feed icons / favicons (true, false, top, bottom, defaults is true) true and top do the same thing, the favicon will appear before the RSS item Title. bottom will make the favicon appear in replacement of source, it will create a link to the RSS feed source main page, it will automatically show the RSS item date next to it.
  Demo favicons=”bottom” newspaper=”5″ ( favicons bottom and newspaper style 5) 
• adsense – Insert Google Adsense ads between RSS Feeds items. (ca-pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, defaults is false) Your Google Adsense ads client data-ad-client. (Only available in Newspaper style) Ex: adsense=”ca-pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX”
• promo – RSS Feeds News Blocks promotion link (true or false, defaults is true)

NewsPapers Example:

Use [newsblocks-merge][/newsblocks-merge] To wrap multiple newsblocks in the NewsPapers styles.

[newsblocks-merge]
[newsblocks url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/breitbart,http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/rss.xml,http://www.veteranstoday.com/feed/,https://sputniknews.com/export/rss2/archive/index.xml,https://www.rt.com/rss/,http://www.lifezette.com/feed/,http://rss.radio-canada.ca/fils/nouvelles/nouvelles.xml,https://conservativedailypost.com/feed/" items="10" max_items="15" excerpt="22" thumbnail="true" cache="10800" source="false" columns="3" newspaper="1" merge="true" blocktitle="Alternative news" splash="latest"]
[newsblocks url="https://feeds.feedburner.com/zerohedge/feed,http://www.independent.co.uk,http://russia-insider.com/en/taxonomy/term/191/all/feed/,http://wearechange.org/feed/,http://theantimedia.org/feed/" items="10" max_items="15" excerpt="22" thumbnail="true" cache="10800" source="false" columns="3" newspaper="1" merge="true" blocktitle="politic"]
[newsblocks url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/wmexperts,https://www.cnet.com/rss/news/,http://feeds.gawker.com/lifehacker/full,https://www.smashingmagazine.com/feed/,http://www.androidpolice.com/feed/" items="10" max_items="15" excerpt="22" thumbnail="true" cache="10800" source="false" columns="3" newspaper="1" merge="true" blocktitle="technology"]
[/newsblocks-merge]

• You can choose between newspaper=”1″ and newspaper=”2″ styles
• In merge mode, since all RSS are mixed/merged, it’s preferable to add the blocktitle option to give this block/column a title like: blocktitle=”technology”
• Give the right numbers of columns according to the numbers of newsblocks inside the shortcode columns option. If you have 3 newsblocks shortcode inside the [newsblocks-merge] shortcode, write: columns=”3″. It help News RSS Feeds Blocks to put the right numbers of columns for the CSS and a good looking NewsPapers style.
• You do not need to use the [newsblocks-merge] shortcode around the [newsblock] shortcode if you are using the merge options with only one columns and just one block: columns=”1″ OR if you do not use the newspaper option.

PLEASE NOTE: Using thumbnails can cause longer load times depending on the feed you are fetching from, use with caution.
Please post any issues under the support tab. If you use and like this plugin, please don’t forget to rate it! Additionally, if you would like to see more features for the plugin, please let me know.

[newsblocks url="https://fr.sputniknews.com/export/rss2/archive/index.xml,http://feeds.feedburner.com/elise/simplyrecipes,http://feeds.feedburner.com/boingboing/ibag,feeds.bbci.co.uk/sport/0/football/rss.xml,http://feeds.feedburner.com/readwriteweb,http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews" items="5" max_items="10" excerpt="50" thumbnail="60" cache="10800" source="true" columns="3" tooltip="true"]

Fetch RSS from URL query

Allow you to show RSS Feeds from url query

Create a page or article with a title like “Show RSS” or any Title you prefer.

Add this example shortcode with fetchfeed=”true” to enable search query in your page or article

[newsblocks items="10" max_items="20" excerpt="50" thumbnail="70" cache="50000" source="false" columns="1" fetchfeed="true"]

you can use au url like this to make fetch a RSS ?rssurl=gizmodo.com

In the same page you can add some url to test like:

<ul>
<li><a href=”?rssurl=news.yahoo.com/rss/”>Yahoo News</a></li>
<li><a href=”?rssurl=api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=beach&lang=en-us&format=rss_200″>Flickr- Beach</a></li>
<li><a href=”?rssurl=feeds.twit.tv/tnt_video_large”>Tech News Today (Video-HI)</a></li>
<li><a href=”?rssurl=gizmodo.com”>Gizmodo</a></li>
<li><a href=”?rssurl=www.lexpress.fr/rss/alaune.xml”>LEXPRESS.fr – A la Une</a></li>
<li><a href=”?rssurl=www.tatw.co.uk/podcast.xml”>Armadamusic Podcast MP3</a></li>
<li><a href=”?rssurl=www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday”>Youtube (user:RT)</a></li>
<li><a href=”?rssurl=news.google.com/,dailymail.co.uk”>Google News | Daily Mail Online <em>(Multiple)</em></a></li>
</ul>

In your page the full url will look like: http://mywebsite.com/show-rss?rssurl=gizmodo.com

If you do a link from the home page to go to your search page
(it can be your home page to if you insert the shortcode in your home page) <a href="http://mywebsite.com/show-rss?rssurl=gizmodo.com">Gizmodo</a>

You can add http or not but some shared hosting service do not allow url query with http. You can enter the full RSS URL like :  http://feeds.gawker.com/gizmodo/full or feeds.gawker.com/gizmodo/full

Search demo on http://altnews.top/rss/getrssfeeds?rssurl=news.yahoo.com/rss/

Youtube & Audio or Video Podcast.

Podcast, MP3, OR Video MP4,  Audio, Youtube Channel or Youtube User videos  (demo)

Youtube
Just go to Youtube and grab the Youtube USER or CHANNEL url
Youtube USER RSS example : https://www.youtube.com/user/peapolzmedia
Youtube CHANNEL RSS example : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7BnmF_65GTc6WCq_IEFgRQ

Podcast
Video Podcast RSS example : http://feeds.twit.tv/tnt_video_large
Audio Podcast RSS example : http://www.thecurrent.org/collection/song-of-the-day/rss
Here a iTunes podcast url grabber (Convert a iTunes URL and find the Podcast RSS)

You can search RSS on this RSS Search engin

Merge all RSS Feeds in one demo

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

• Upload Feed-News-Blocks to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
• Unzip the file
• Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
• Use the shortcode [newsblocks] anywhere in your content
• Use a text widget who accept shortcode to put RSS Feeds News Blocks in your sidebar or footer

Video

Demo RSS Feed News block who show: 3 columns, 6 feeds, 5 items
Demo Pro version with Favicons and Videos icons. Show more/Show less feeds, Show descriptions and images on hover. see more and the Minimize and Maximize +/- buttons to reveal the description
Video Pro – Skin Builder

Tricks to use to find RSS Feed.

Use this Chrome plugin to help you find RSS Feeds in website home page or categories pages, when the icon become orange, it mean there’s one or multiples RSS feeds

For BBC, there’s no Orange Feed icon in the Chrome Extension.
When this happen like BBC, Search Google with these key words. “rss bbc.com”

The first result give: http://www.bbc.com/news/10628494
All RSS Feed from BBC are there.