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CIS News Aggregator

by cisinlabs

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Description

CIS News Aggregator is a powerful and easy-to-use WordPress plugin that allows you to aggregate news from multiple XML/RSS feed sources and display them on your website. With this plugin, you can easily add, edit, and remove feed URLs, categorize them, and control the number of news posts fetched per feed. It also supports fetching images from the feed, adding a read more link to the original post and allows the admin to differentiate the aggregator posts in the admin area.

Displaying the News

You can display the news on any page or post using the [cis-news-aggregator] shortcode. The shortcode supports the following attributes:

  • category: (Optional) The slug of the category to display news from. If not provided, news from all categories will be displayed.
  • posts_per_page: (Optional) The number of posts to display per page. The default is 10.

Example:

[cis-news-aggregator category="my-news-category" posts_per_page="5"]
  1. Upload the cis-news-aggregator folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to CIS News Aggregator > Feeds to add your first feed.
  4. Add the [cis-news-aggregator] shortcode to any page or post to display the news.
How do I add a new feed?

Go to CIS News Aggregator > Feeds and fill in the form to add a new feed.

How do I display the news?

You can display the news on any page or post using the [cis-news-aggregator] shortcode. See the “Displaying the News” section for more details.

Does the plugin support images?

Yes, the plugin will try to fetch the featured image from the feed and set it as the featured image of the post.

How can I differentiate the aggregator posts?

In the posts list table, you will see a new column named “Source”. If the post is from the aggregator, it will show “Aggregator”.

1.1.1

  • Fix invalid id issue in feed fetching.

1.1.0

  • Add support for fetching images from the feed.
  • Add a “Read More” link to the original post.
  • Add a column in the posts list to differentiate aggregator posts.
  • Set “external-aggregator” as the default category if it exists.
  • Add uninstall.php to clean up the database on plugin deletion.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.
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