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aggrw

aggrw is a widgetized version of aggr (my plugin that allows you to place the contents of an external feed into your pages or posts).
Unlike aggr, aggrw allows you to place the contents of an external feed into one of your sidebars.

It is limited to display one feed (it doesn’t have a cache so this is a way to reduce the load of your server).

Its use is trivial (I list here the obvious steps):

  1. download it
  2. unzip it
  3. upload it to your wp-content/plugins/ folder
  4. activate it (plugin menu)
  5. place it somewhere (widget menu)
  6. give it a title (widget menu)
  7. give it a feed (widget menu)
  8. save the options in the widget menu

5 responses to “aggrw”

  1. Crooked Press » links for 2007-12-04
    Crooked Press » links for 2007-12-04 2007-12-04 at 06:25 am |

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  2. Fernando F.
    Fernando F. 2008-01-17 at 05:05 pm | | Reply

    There’s a way to limit rss itens on this widget version, like with $item_count on aggr?

    Thanks

  3. Carlo
    Carlo 2008-01-17 at 05:27 pm | | Reply

    Fernando: not at the moment (excluding changing the code, of course). I might add this feature in a future release.

  4. Nicolas Sosnowiez
    Nicolas Sosnowiez 2008-03-18 at 04:18 pm | | Reply

    thanks that’s so cool :)
    I’ve modified a bit your code to get the item count by taking the function from aggr and copy paste it to aggrw :)
    here //$item_count = 10;
    $feed = fetch_rss($body);
    $items = array_slice($feed->items, 0, $item_count);// and here
    $channel = $feed->channel;
    $feed_contents = ”’;

  5. Carlo
    Carlo 2008-03-18 at 05:26 pm | | Reply

    Nicolas: good. I’ll study your changes and possibly I’ll add them to aggrw. Thanks.

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