Posted 9 months ago #
Hi, I want a feature on my website for my users (who will have accounts) to be able to subscribe to certain external RSS feeds of their choosing, instead of a list already showing.
I am building a news section on my website, and I'm sure that not all of them are interested in all categories/websites.
Is there a plugin or simple code to be able to do this?
something like this, maybe?
Posted 9 months ago #
I'm actually talking about external RSS feeds, as in, content pulled from another news websites' RSS feed.
I'm actually talking about external RSS feeds
My bad, that's a custom job. Use a plugin, go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ and look for a plugin that gives you this functionality. Short of you building it yourself, this is a custom feature that a plugin can handle.
Questions comes to mind: will it echoed in the Dashboard or in a static page?
Is there a plugin or simple code to be able to do this?
I have built similar features using WP for the Dashboard. Do you know how to use the built in RSS reader within WordPress to generate an HTML output of an RSS Feed? I've never come across a "simple" script for this.
Additionally, you need to generate specific permissions for different user roles and store those variables within the database so that each user keeps their own feeds and configurations. It's simple alright, but you need to know what you're doing. Hope the plugin directory helps. :)
Posted 9 months ago #
Thank you so much Jorge! I'll definitely look into it.
I'm not good at programming, so I'm not sure if I'll actually do it.
I may just look into creating a static webpage with images from the articles themselves in a table/chart looking thing. (Think FlipBoard for iPad app). I'm sure that's even harder to create though :/
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