Eter RSS

July 24th, 2007 Fadi El-Eter Posted in WordPress, Plugins |

Eter RSS is a WordPress RSS reader. Eter RSS allows WordPress powered sites to seamlessly integrate RSS feeds from other sites.

Specifications

  • Powerful infrastructure: Eter RSS uses lastRSS, known for its stability and its huge userbase.
  • Total control over your RSS feeds: Ability to change the settings for all your feeds and to overwrite these settings on a feed-by-feed basis.
  • Filtering: Ability to filter RSS entries containing unwanted words/sentences.
  • Clean RSS data: No more seeing the & (ampersand) as &.
  • User friendly interface: You will feel in control of your application.
  • Limit the # of RSS entries being displayed: You can set the maximum # of RSS entries to be displayed per RSS feed either globally or on a feed-by-feed basis.
  • Caching: Eter RSS allows you to cache your RSS results for faster access. Caching can happen every 30 minutes or every week, your choice. Caching can be completely turned off.
  • Absolutely free: Free to use, free to modify, it’s a free world!
  • …and more!

Requirements

  • WordPress 2.0+ (older WordPress versions may work)
  • PHP 4+
  • Writable directory anywhere in your website for caching (Eter RSS will attempt to create such directory, but will not complain if it can’t, it just won’t cache).

Installation

  • Extract the zip file and upload the directory Eter RSS to your plugins directory. (usually wp-content/plugins under your home directory).
  • Login as administrator to your WordPress application, and then click on Plugins.
  • Click on Activate next to Eter RSS.
  • Click on Options, and then click on Eter RSS, and follow the instructions.

Quick Start

Eter RSS is quite easy to use. After saving your options here, go to any Post or Page and add the following: <!--eter-rss:url::the_rss_url--> For example, if you want to display Yahoo’s Oddly Enough RSS, just add the following (in code mode): <!--eter-rss:url::http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/oddlyenough-->

Advanced

You may want to override the global options set above with specific options for a certain URL:

  • To override the “Maximum Entries Per RSS” option, use the “maximum” keyword followed by the number of maximum entries you want to show, for example <!--eter-rss:url::http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/oddlyenough|
    maximum::5-->     (no line break between the pipe | and maximum) will only display the latest 5 RSS entries from Yahoo’s Oddly Enough.
  • To override the “Filter Entries With Keywords” option, use the “filter” keyword followed by your filter strings, separaterd by commas, for example <!--eter-rss:url::http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/oddlyenough|
    filter::curtain,small table,door-->     will only display the RSS entries not having “curtain”, “small table”, or “door” in either the subject or the description. Note that entries containing “table” but not containing “small table” or “curtain” or “door” will still show. Note that entries containing “SMall taBLE” will not show; comparison is case insensitive.
  • To override the “Show RSS Title” option, use the “title” keyword followed by “yes” or “no”, for example <!--eter-rss:url::http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/oddlyenough|
    title::no-->     will not display the RSS title.
  • To override the “Popup Links in New Window” option, use the “popup” keyword followed by “yes” or “no”, for example <!--eter-rss:url::http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/oddlyenough|
    popup::no-->    . This code will make the RSS links open in the same window.
  • You may mix your options using the pipe (|), for example <!--eter-rss:url::http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/oddlyenough|
    maximum::5|popup::no|filter::curtain,small table,door|title::no-->     will display a maximum of 5 RSS entries where the links open in the same window, where the entries having “curtain”, “small table”, and “door” will not be shown, and where the title of the RSS will not be displayed. Note that there’s no special order when writing your options.

Download Eter RSS Now!

Check the demo at http://www.genoc.net/eter-rss-demo/

I would definitely appreciate your comments.


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25 Responses to “Eter RSS”

  1. moshu Says:
    July 25th, 2007 at 6:16 am

    Thanks for fixing it (see my comment in the forum). Now it works as “advertized”.

    Great job!

  2. Fadi El-Eter Says:
    July 25th, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    Thanks for your comments! Hope you use it and like it :).

  3. John Says:
    August 26th, 2007 at 2:28 am

    Not having much luck. Believe I followed the directions. This is on WordPress 2.2. Thoughts?

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class lastRSS in /home/.jonkuil/john/myblog.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-eter-rss/lastRSS.php on line 34

  4. kin cricket Says:
    October 31st, 2007 at 4:55 pm

    Hey if you get a chance take a look at my site. the rss does not work right…

    http://midcitykingdom.com/blog/

  5. king Cricket Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 11:59 pm

    The picture are not showing up… Can I get some help…

  6. John Says:
    November 23rd, 2007 at 5:55 am

    Hi,

    Looks like a nice plugin.

    However I need to add RSS feed to my sidebar. Is this possible to integrate in template with PHP and not just in pages and posts?

    Thanks.

  7. peter Says:
    November 28th, 2007 at 5:01 am

    Hi, I can’t get it to work with WP 2.3.1. There’s either no feed is shown or the format is totally screwed. I would like something like FirstRSS plugin but with the function of limiting the number of items.

  8. peter Says:
    November 28th, 2007 at 9:41 pm

    I’m also having trouble deleting the cache folder created. it says permission denied and I can’t remove them.. help!

  9. Fadi El-Eter Says:
    November 29th, 2007 at 5:26 am

    Hi Peter,

    Could you please send me the URL of your site?

  10. Fadi El-Eter Says:
    November 29th, 2007 at 5:27 am

    John,

    This requires some custom programming from your site. Please email me (through the contact us form) and I’ll tell you how.

  11. Pano Says:
    December 3rd, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    Hi Fadi,

    Thank you very much for the plugin, I have found it very useful for my website, www.trainharder.com. To see it in use go to the “Training Blogs” page.

    I have one question however I was hoping you could help me with. I cannot find where to customize how the RSS feed is displayed on my page. For example, is there any way to shorten the length of each RSS feed that is displayed on my page? Besides the title I want only the first one or two lines (10-15 words) for each RSS displayed.

    Regards,
    Pano

  12. Fadi El-Eter Says:
    December 3rd, 2007 at 4:32 pm

    Hi Pano,

    I like what you did with Eter RSS, it looks very nice on your site. Currently there’s no way to do it but it’s a simple and useful functionality and I will add it as soon as I have time.

  13. Pano Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    Thanks Fadi. It would be much appreciated.

  14. topheading Says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    Hi Pano and Fadi,

    Looking at your discussion, I managed to get a customizable feed on my page, www.amrabat.com . I use feed2js to generate javascript which I then use on a page. All form settings can be adjusted in a seperate CSS page and also a lot of other variables from feed2js can be adjusted.

    My big problem or question is how to make use of the popup script which perfectly works from feed2js but stops working in Wordpress…

    Well 1 and 1 is 2 so I thought it would be good to let you know.

    Chaio

  15. R. Richard Hobbs Says:
    February 14th, 2008 at 7:29 am

    I am getting the fatal error like the person above when a tag search is performed in WP 2.3.2 / K2:

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class lastrss in /home/user/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-eter-rss/lastRSS.php on line 34

    If you want to see this error recreated find “Tag Archive” in the menu on my home page, find the tag “entertainment” and see the last article about Mardi Gras.

    I have had a few instances trying to add feed urls that the feed probably had errors that either would not display and / or Feedburner didnt like (I also use one of the Feedburner plugins to handle my feeds) and the post would not be included in my feed but probably not much can be done about that unless it is possible to make your plugin somehow more tolerant or able to correct feed errors on the fly(?)

    What I like about Eter-RSS is that is easy to configure the number of items you wish to display - FirstRSS might have have this capability but seemingly only via some hacks that are possibly beyond my expertise or amount of available time to investigate.

    Thank you for the plugin and your work.
    RH

  16. Fadi El-Eter Says:
    February 14th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    I have just fixed the “Cannot redeclare class” issue. Please download the latest version and upload it to your server. Sorry for the delay and the inconvenience.

  17. R. Richard Hobbs Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 9:20 am

    Feature request!

    To be able to limit:

    1. Content display of feed to *just* the title
    2. Content display to a certain number of words

    (some of the feeds I have been importing are *really* a mess, with code showing and mismatched characters sets)

    Some of the feeds are also set to display the entire article - I just want to give readers “a taste” so they will visit the site that generated the feed - NOT potentially plagiarise their content - also too much “quotage” can ONLY be bad SEO (duplicate content)

    Be nice to be able to configure in admin as well as overide individual articles.

    Thank you again for a very useful plugin and all your hard work.

  18. R. Richard Hobbs Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 9:40 am

    I went into LastRSS and tweaked “strip html” from ‘false’ to ‘true’ and emptied the wp-eter-rss-cache:

    1. It didnt seem to break your plugin :-)
    2. It cleaned up at least one feed that was showing lots of ugly code in the feed.

    ?

    thx

  19. R. Richard Hobbs Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    p.s. I also tweaked the CDATA switch from default ‘nochange’ to ‘content’ -

    CDATA
    Allows to set how to proceed CDATA information.
    nochange = default value; don’t make any changes (get CDATA content including CDATA tag)
    strip = completely strip CDATA information
    content = get CDATA content (without CDATA tag)

    I havent noticed that it changed anything (or bad) so far - (knock on wood ;-)

    Wish there was a switch to limit the number of words or characters - maybe appended with “…” (or something?). To hard code this in is beyond my current coding abilities.

  20. Luca Says:
    March 13th, 2008 at 1:16 am

    Hi, there is a way to force the image showing? I mean, the feeds are ok but the images are not included into the feed while they are showing using a normal feed reader. Thanks and keep up the good work!!!

  21. Tom Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 8:09 am

    Can you modified your plugin to use filtering to include feeds based on keywords? In other words, I want to use your plugin to parse feeds for certain content. If the content is found then the feed is displayed.

    Thanks.

  22. Jeff Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

    I’m having some trouble with the setup. I followed the instructions and activated the plugin; then I go to settings and click on Eter RSS, and all it does is take me to my home page. It’s not giving me any “instructions” to follow …

    Help?

  23. Fadi El-Eter Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    Hi Jeff,

    Which version of wordpress are you using?

  24. Jeff Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    2.5.1

  25. kyle Says:
    August 29th, 2008 at 7:44 am

    I tried to install this on a clients’ website and all that appears is a commented out line of code. It does not pull in any feeds.

    http://thegreenhousetavern.com/blog/

    Running WordPress 2.6.1

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