Archive for Wordpress Plugin
Insert RSS into wordpress posts or pages
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Today I had to find a quick RSS reader that worked in wordpress pages. I searched and I searched for a plug-in that could process my RSS feeds from Linkshare affiliate network. None of them processed my feeds (in particular iTunes) , the URLs from Linkshare do not end in a .xlm extension and for some reason none of the plug-ins could handle that. I had 2 choices, fix it or find a faster way; I went with the faster option as my client was in a rush.
I stumbled across the google News Bar Wizard this wizard generates Java script to be used on your page template.
I used the generator to make the base code then just inserted my Titles and RSS URLs in place of Google’s generated information. You can download my template file with the link below:
Download PHP wordpress page template here
- Edit Line 29 , replace GOOGLE API KEY HERE with your google AJAX API key
- Edit line 41 and replace TOP TITLE HERE with the title of your RSS feed
- Edit line 41 and replace YOUR FULL RSS URL HERE with the URL of your RSS feed
- Edit line 46 and replace SECOND TITLE HERE with the second heading for your RSS feed
This all took me 30 mins to do and it gave me a result that the client was pleased with – have a peek at music club’s page, they use Linkshares iTunes RSS feed for top 25 new releses.
It should take you 10mins with these instructions, I hope it helps.
CFORMSII Bug – Add form box not working
Posted by: | CommentsI use the CFormsII Wordpress plug-in by Delicious Days on several blogs and have had a bug / error appear on 
several of them. When in the page editor; CformsII provides a button to allow you to add a form to the page , when not properly installed this button shows an error. Here is how I corrected that error:
- Deactivate the plug-in in Wordpress
- Go to your server and change the permissions to the CFormsII folder to 777 ( how do I change permissions? - UNIX – Windows)
- Reactivate the plug-in making sure to use the “activate” link and not the check-box.
This fixed the problem for me , I hope it helps you.