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CNN has a number of RSS feeds with current news available, on a number of topics. This widget allows the WP admin to select which feed, how many items to show from that feed and optionally set a widget title. If no title is selected, the name of the feed is used. The feed is fetched for every view, so users are guaranteed up to date information. No local storage of feed is done. Clicking on a news item will of course take you straight to the relevant article at CNN, as per CNN Terms of Use.
This plugin works both as a widget, as inline content replacement and can be called from themes. Any number of inline replacements or theme calls allowed, but only one widget instance is supported in this release.
For widget use, simply use the widget as any other after selecting which feed it should display. For inline content replacement, insert the one or more of the following strings in your content and they will be replaced by the relevant news feed. For theme use, add the do_action function call described below.
1. for the default feed
2.
Shortcodes can be used if you have WordPress 2.5 or above, in which case these replacement methods are also available.
1. [cnn-news] for the default feed
2. [cnn-news name="feedname"]
Calling the plugin from a theme is done with the WP do_action() system. This will degrade gracefully and not produce errors or output if plugin is disabled or removed.
1. for the default feed
2.
Enable plugin, go to the CNN News page under Dashboard->Settings and read the initial information. Then go to the CNN News page under Dashboard->Manage and configure one or more feeds. Then use a widget or insert relevant strings in your content or theme.
Additional information:
The available options are as follows.
Name: Optional feed name, that can be used in the widget or the inline replacement string to reference a specific feed. Any feed without a name is considered “default” and will be used if the replacement strings do not reference a specific feed. If there are more than one feed with the same name, a random of these is picked every time it is used. This also applies to the default feed(s).
Title: Optional, which when set will be used in the widget title or as a header above the news items when inline. If the title is empty, then a default title of “CNN News :
Feed: A dropdown list of the current feeds provided by CNN. This list is hard coded into the plugin, presumably CNN does not change the list too often.
News item length: Short or long. The short version is really just the news item title as a one liner but probably the one most WP admins will use. The long version is the title followed by a 3-4 line teaser. For the short version, the long text is available as a mouse rollover/tooltip.
Max items to show: As the title says, if the feed has sufficient entries to fulfil the request.
Cache time: The feeds are now fetched using WordPress builtin MagpieRSS system, which allows for caching of feeds a specific number of seconds. Cached feeds are stored in the backend database.
Clicking on a news item will of course take you to the relevant article at CNN, as per CNN Terms of Use.
If you want to change the look&feel, the inline table is wrapped in a div with the id “cnn-news-inline” and the widget is wrapped in an li with id “cnn-news”. Let me know if you need more to properly skin it.
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Tags: feed, rss, cnn news, News, cnn, plugin, widget
This is version 1.1.1 of the feed-need plug-in. It fixes the broken 1.1 releas. I would like to say sorry for that broken package. You can tell what you think or report any bugs at this location. http://www.phpvrouwen.nl/forums/forum.php?id=3
This plugin was born out of curiosity. I wanted to know how many of my readers where actually using my news and comment feeds. So i wrote this plugin, After installing the plugin you will find an option called “Feed Need” under your Manage section. This page will give you a description of how many subscribers you have to both your main news feed and your comment new feed both unique as the number of hits the feeds have gotten. I have also added an option to reset the counters, this way you can meassure how long it will take for new readers check your feeds`s.,
Tags: posts, subscribers, communicate, rss
Google aggregates news from over 4500 news sources, updated continously. The results can be retrieved as a number of RSS feeds, where you can create your own specific feed by specifying one of more than 40 regions/languages, and an optional topic ranging from Domestic to Most Popular to Entertainment. Currently there are nine topics, including, of course, All. In addition to this, any feed can be filtered through a search query so that only news items matching your query will be shown. Note that not all combinations of region/language and topic has been enabled by Google but it should degrade gracefully.
This plugin works both as a widget, as inline content replacement and can be called from themes. Any number of inline replacements or theme calls allowed, but only one widget instance is supported in this release.
For widget use, simply use the widget as any other after selecting which feed it should display. For inline content replacement, insert the one or more of the following strings in your content and they will be replaced by the relevant news feed. For theme use, add the do_action function call described below.
1. for the default feed
2.
Shortcodes can be used if you have WordPress 2.5 or above, in which case these replacement methods are also available.
1. [google-news] for the default feed
2. [google-news name="feedname"]
Calling the plugin from a theme is done with the WP do_action() system. This will degrade gracefully and not produce errors or output if plugin is disabled or removed.
1. for the default feed
2.
Enable plugin, go to the Google News page under Dashboard->Settings and read the initial information. Then go to the Google News page under Dashboard->Manage and configure one or more feeds. Then use a widget or insert relevant strings in your content or theme.
Additional information:
The available options are as follows.
Name: Optional feed name, that can be used in the widget or the inline replacement string to reference a specific feed. Any feed without a name is considered “default” and will be used if the replacement strings do not reference a specific feed. If there are more than one feed with the same name, a random of these is picked every time it is used. This also applies to the default feed(s).
Title: Optional, which when set will be used in the widget title or as a header above the news items when inline. If the title is empty, then a default title of “Google News :
News region: A dropdown list of 40 choices, determining the region/language of the feed.
News type: Another dropdown list, determining what type of news you are after. Sci/Tech, Business, Health etc.
Output type: Some Google feeds come with just text, some pictures or pictures on nearly every news item. Chose which one you want here.
News item length: Short or long. The short version is really just the news item title as a one liner but probably the one most WP admins will use. The long version is a 3-4 line teaser that has been severely stripped of useless markup that Google insists on passing along, including tables, links, colour/font/style settings etc. I’ve tried to clean it up so it won’t mess up your theme. For the short version, the long text without html tags is available as a mouse rollover/tooltip.
Max items to show: As the title says, if the feed has sufficient entries to fulfil the request.
Optional query filter: One of the most important parts of the Google News RSS Feed is the ability to filter the news with your very own search query. Get relevant, up to date news on the exact topic you want. Note that if you add a search query, then the short item length will include an “all N news articles” link curtesy Google. If you choose to add a query, then you most likely want to set a title as well. To explain to the viewer what kind of news you have selected for them to see. The News Query isn’t like a standard Google Query, so you can’t use || between words to search for one or the other. So IFF you start your query with the word OR then the rest of the words will be or’ed together. I.e. a query string of ‘OR this that’ will look for news containing either this or that. This is really just a test, so the actual query language used here may change in future versions.
Cache time: The feeds are now fetched using WordPress builtin MagpieRSS system, which allows for caching of feeds a specific number of seconds. Cached feeds are stored in the backend database.
Clicking on a news item will of course take you via Google to the news site with the relevant article, as per Google Terms of Use.
If you want to change the look&feel, the inline table is wrapped in a div with the id “google-news-inline” and the widget is wrapped in an li with id “google-news”. Let me know if you need more to properly skin it.
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Tags: feed, rss, google news, News, google, plugin, widget
This plugin makes a widget to your sidebar and shows the latest discussions from your miniBB forums. You can configure the number of the latest discussions, the maximum number of words of each one to be displayed and the time difference from your server. More info can be found in plugin’s page.
Have fun and keep blogging!
Tags: widget
Update: 0.6 version includes a new “harvest-this.php” file which works like the “Press This,” except with the added meta fields for DFE News Harvester. Note that the wp-admin folder is included in the new package, but you’ll need to move the “harvest-this.php” file to the actual wp-admin folder in order for it to work.
For a complete list of functions and uses, please see the plugin support site.
This plugin allows administrators who want to feature and link to news articles to register news feeds, select articles from those feeds and post them as items on a blog. This is intended for link blogging, primarily. Uses WP meta fields to create special records including a teaser title, image, image credit, link to the original article and a blurb about the article which you can then display as you like on your site. Note that special instructions for how to use meta should come from the WordPress.org support pages on the subject.
Tags: feed, rss, News
The Twitter News Feed plugin has a specific use case, that is to import tweets from defined Twitter users containing specific hashtags into WordPress.
Why Use Twitter News Feed
Let’s say everyone in your company has a Twitter account and you would like their updates to appear on your site but some of them tweet about pizzas and beer as well as some good links and company news. Twitter News Feed allows you to import tweets tagged with certain hashtags from those users.
For example you might want to import tweets from @johndoe and @janedoe containing the hashtag #news. Twitter News Feed can do this for you. There is no limit to the number of users or hashtags you can add. The main benefit being that you can power your news feed using Twitter as well as allowing the conversation to continue using WordPress comments.
Automatically add Tweets as Posts
Twitter News Feed is designed to add the imported tweets as posts, although you can choose to not add them to the database as posts and just grab them on each page load using a template function. In the admin panel (available from the Settings menu) you are able to specify hashtags, usernames as well as define a category to add your imported tweets to as well as a default user.
When adding Tweets as posts a number of custom fields are added that you are then able to use in your templates. These are:
* status => The full tweet returned from the RSS feed
* status_href => A href to the tweet
* status_id => The status id of the tweet
* twitter_username => The username of the tweets author (NB: keirwhitaker NOT @keirwhitaker)
* twitterusernamelink => A href link to the tweet authors homepage (NB: includes the @)
Use the Jabber field to Map Users to Tweets
Twitter News Feed goes one step further and will attribute posts to the correct author. It does this by looking in the “jabber” field in the user profile for a Twitter username. Let’s say we enter “johndoe” in the jabber field any tweets from @johndoe will be attributed to him. If no match is found the post will be added to the default user defined in the Twitter News Feed admin panel.
Features
* Allows multiple Twitter users to add news to a WordPress blog based on defined hashtags
* Automatically adds Tweets to WordPress to a defined category
* Maps Twitter usernames to the “jabber” field in the user profile, if not found Tweets are attributed to a “default” user e.g. Twitter News Bot
* Uses WordPress scheduled events to look for new tweets for every hour
* Provides a template function to grab updates but not store them as posts
Support
If you have any problems with of feedback on Twitter News Feed please email keir[at]keirwhitaker.com
You can also follow me on Twitter – http://twitter.com/keirwhitaker
Tags: News, twitter
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