Nokko RSS Aggregator

Description

Nokko RSS Aggregator is a powerful yet easy-to-use RSS news aggregator for WordPress. Add any RSS feed as a source, choose a display layout and let the plugin automatically pull in fresh articles — visitors click a headline and go straight to the original article on the source website.

Perfect for news portals, niche blogs, topic hubs, industry digests, sports sites, tech roundups and any site that curates content from multiple sources.

5 Display Layouts

• Featured — large hero article + 2 sub-featured cards + responsive grid (default)
• Grid — equal cards in a responsive multi-column grid
• List — articles with side thumbnail
• Newspaper — oversized first article, rest in two columns
• Masonry — variable-height Pinterest-style columns

Content Management

• Visual moderation panel — hide any article with one click
• Restore hidden articles at any time
• Keyword exclusion filter — block articles containing specific words
• Smart deduplication — removes the same story covered by multiple sources
• Configurable deduplication sensitivity (50%-95%)

Images

• Built-in image proxy — fixes hotlink blocking from external domains
• Local image cache (3-day TTL)
• Graceful placeholder when no image is available

Full Design Customisation

• WordPress Color Picker for 4 independent colour slots
• 9 font options including 8 Google Fonts
• Configurable articles per page (4-60)
• Configurable cache refresh interval (5-1440 minutes)

Feed Management

• Add unlimited RSS feeds with name and category
• Enable or disable feeds individually
• Test button to verify each feed URL before saving
• Recommended feeds panel with one-click adding
• Live layout and category switching without page reload
• Integrated search bar

Shortcode

[nokko_news]

Available parameters:

• layout — featured, grid, list, newspaper, masonry (default: featured)
• limit — number of articles, 4-60 (default: 12)
• category — filter by category (e.g. Technology, Sports, News)
• show_filters — yes/no (default: yes)
• show_search — yes/no (default: yes)

Examples:

[nokko_news layout="featured" limit="12"]
[nokko_news layout="newspaper" limit="9"]
[nokko_news layout="list" category="Technology" show_filters="no"]
[nokko_news layout="masonry" limit="20"]

Legal Notice

This plugin displays headlines, short descriptions and images from original articles and always links back to the source. It is the user’s responsibility to ensure compliance with the terms of service of each RSS feed they aggregate.

External Services

This plugin fetches RSS feeds from URLs configured by the site administrator. This is the core function of the plugin.

RSS Feeds

When fetching a feed, the plugin sends a standard HTTP GET request to the feed URL configured by the administrator. This request includes your server IP address and a browser user-agent string. No personal data of your site visitors is ever transmitted. Feeds are always fetched server-side, never client-side.

Feeds are fetched automatically at the interval set in the plugin settings (default: 30 minutes) and cached in your WordPress database.

The plugin ships with a few example RSS feeds for demonstration purposes only. These are all standard, publicly available RSS feeds. The administrator can remove, replace or add any feed at any time. The plugin has no affiliation with any of the default example feed sources.

Google Fonts (optional)

If the administrator selects a Google Font in the Design settings, the plugin enqueues that font from fonts.googleapis.com. This causes the visitor’s browser to connect to Google’s servers, sending the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent to Google.

To avoid this entirely, select “System default” in the typography settings — no external font resources will be loaded.

• Service provider: Google LLC
• Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Terms of Service: https://fonts.google.com/attribution

Image Proxy (optional)

If the image proxy is enabled, the plugin fetches images from external domains and stores them in your WordPress uploads folder. This is a server-to-server request only — no visitor data is involved in this process.