[Plugin: WP RSS Aggregator] Limit Results

I have just installed the Aggregator and it does just what I want and is simple to use but I have the same issue as gfa202. So I am pleased to see you intend to address this. It would be better from my point of view if there was a way of setting the numbers of entries displayed in each section.

Thanks.

Hi there,

I’ve read Jenny’s solution on adding thumbnail but would like to know in specific location of adding those codes to wp-rss-aggregator.php.

I’m not so sure of where to insert the following codes to wp-rss-aggregator.php?
1) preg_match_all(‘/<img([^>]*)>/i’, $item->get_content(), $matches);
// Get all of the image tags

2) $all_images = $matches[0];

Could anyone please guide me on these? Many thanks.

hi! I am really new here, stupid than a newbie. 😀 I need some help.

1. How do I limit the feeds to just the most recent? Like maybe 5 or 6 items?
2. How to put the thumbnails?

I am actually working on it, with de.pinque WP theme. I am trying to put it in my sidebar. Thanks a million. 🙂

Wow! Thanks. 🙂 Looking forward to it. 🙂 I wish I could also show the thumbnails. 😉

Ok folks, I couldn’t wait and am very happy to announce that I have a solution for us 😀

Modifiy the shortcode declartion in wp-rss-aggregator.php at line 223, by replacing

// Register a new shortcode
    add_shortcode( 'wp_rss_aggregator', 'wprss_shortcode');

    function wprss_shortcode( $atts ) {
        if ( !empty ($atts) ) {
            foreach ( $atts as $key => &$val ) {
                $val = html_entity_decode($val);
            }
        }
        wp_rss_aggregator( $atts );
    }

with

// Register a new shortcode
    add_shortcode( 'wp_rss_aggregator', 'wprss_shortcode');

    function wprss_shortcode( $atts ) {
	extract( shortcode_atts( array(
		'limit' => '20',
	), $atts ) );

        if ( !empty ($atts) ) {
            foreach ( $atts as $key => &$val ) {
                $val = html_entity_decode($val);
            }
        }
        wp_rss_aggregator( $atts );
    }

This will add the “limit” variable with a default of 20.

Then, before the (or each of the) foreach statements replace:

`foreach ( $items_today as $item ) {

echo $link_before . ‘<a class=”colorbox” href=”‘ . $item->get_permalink() .'”>’. $item->get_title(). ‘ ‘. ‘</a>’;
echo ‘<br><span class=”feed-source”>Source: ‘.$item->get_feed()->get_title()/* . ‘ | ‘ . $item->get_date(‘l jS F’).”*/ . ‘</span>’;
echo $link_after;

}`

with

$feedlimit = $limit; //call variable
foreach ( $items_today as $item ) {
$counter++; //add counter
echo $link_before . '<a class="colorbox" href="' . $item->get_permalink() .'">'. $item->get_title(). ' '. '</a>';
echo '<br><span class="feed-source">Source: '.$item->get_feed()->get_title()/* . ' | ' . $item->get_date('l jS F').''*/ . '</span>';
echo $link_after;
if($counter >= $feedlimit) break; //break if count is met
            }

Then, in your shortcode simply add limit=X, where X is the number of posts you want to show. Et voilà ! works on my end, let me know how it works for you!

-jennyb