About this plugin
- Author: C. Johnson
- Project URI: http://fwpplugin.com/
- License: GPL 2. See License below for copyright jots and tittles.
FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress weblog, and then the content it syndicates appears as a series of special posts in your WordPress posts database. If you syndicate several feeds then you can use WordPress’s posts database and templating engine as the back-end of an aggregation (“planet”) website.
It was developed, originally, as a utility/hobby project, because I needed a more flexible replacement for Planet for aggregator sites that I administered.
FeedWordPress is designed with flexibility, ease of use, and ease of configuration in mind. 2 or later), and it helps to have SFTP or FTP access to your web host. The ability to create cron jobs on your web host is helpful but not required.
Using and Customizing FeedWordPress
FeedWordPress has many options which can be accessed through the WordPress Dashboard, and a lot of functionality accessible programmatically through WordPress templates or plugins. For further documentation of the ins and outs, see the documentation at the FeedWordPress project homepage.
License
The FeedWordPress plugin is copyright © 2005-2021 by Charles Johnson. It uses code derived or translated from:
- wp-rss-aggregate.php by Kellan Elliot-McCrea
- SimplePie feed parser by Ryan Parman, Geoffrey Sneddon, Ryan McCue, et al.
- MagpieRSS feed parser by Kellan Elliot-McCrea
- Ultra-Liberal Feed Finder by Mark Pilgrim
- WordPress Blog Tool and Publishing Platform
according to the terms of the GNU General Public License.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.