Comments on: Wordpress development techniques #2 – Fetching RSS feeds with wordpress

By: bamajr

bamajr — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:40:03 +0000

There was an article which caught my attention on MSN about Facebook. (See it by clicking here) This article was written by a writer for PCWorld and posted on the PCWorld site. (See it by clicking here) This article was pulled by MSN and displayed as a post to their tech site. Credit was given to the PCWorld Writer, but it was posted as a new article on MSN. This is what I'm trying to do. I want to pull related tech articles from places like PCWorld and put them on my site as a new blog article (Of course, credit would be given to the original writer!) How is this done?

By: Mike Jolley

Mike Jolley — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:24:26 +0000

Not sure why there are errors…maybe wordpress team changed something. There is a new function called get_rss however. Maybe that will work.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:46:33 +0000

How can I add things like author and date? I’ve tried things like:

echo $item['dc:publisher'];

echo $item['pubdate'];

Unsuccessfully.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:59:05 +0000

Is it just me, or does anyone else see, “Warning: array_slice() [function.array-slice]: The first argument should be an array in /home/sites/blue-anvil.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/phpexec.php(41) : eval()’d code on line 4″, in the example boxes? The only reason I ask, is because I am getting this error too, when I try to parse a feed from my own website. It works the first time, but then on refresh it dies and give me a similar error.

By: Feedburn your delicious rss feeds! | nemetral

Feedburn your delicious rss feeds! | nemetral — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:02:44 +0000

[...] a nice how-to on Blue Anvil Journal, but you may see an error happening right in the [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:07:37 +0000

Your lesson is similar to one I found on the wordpress codex but yours is more detailed. I have one question: Do you know if there is a way to display/echo the pubdate for each item? I have not been able to figure that out.

Thanks!

By: Christopher Miles

Christopher Miles — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:38:46 +0000

Thanks a lot for this post; I’m now using the native RSS fetcher in Wordpress to create a blogroll on my site using del.icio.us links, and a current and recent reading list from my Google Library RSS feed

I’m spending half my waking day thinking of new and fiendish ways of parsing RSS feeds to my site now!

(“Half my waking day” and “fiendish” are probably overstating it a bit.)

By: Lakshmi Mareddy

Lakshmi Mareddy — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:52:25 +0000

Pretty cool Mike! or should I say “Jolley Good”… I had played with Magpie separately long back, but didnt know it was built-in in WP. Now after reading your article, my mind is racing… A big THANK YOU to you for coming up with this…

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:02:26 +0000

Hey, man. I love your site. I use it all the time to make sure I’m coding stuff right. :]

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:18:04 +0000

I am totally lost. But I wanna figure this out. I really do.