Description
The RSS Feed Reader addon further enhances the functionality of WPeMatico by allowing to read and display the RSS feed results using shortcodes, page templates or the get_the_content function on your WordPress site without creating the posts.
How it works
The RSS Feed Reader plugin simplifies RSS feed integration and allows you to customise the way feed results are dynamically displayed on your WordPress site with flexible options such as shortcodes, page templates and WordPress’ internal function to change the content with get_the_content filter on each selected Custom Post Type.
In addition many options of the WPeMatico standard campaigns are available to parse and filter the content displayed in the feeds.
Features
The most important characteristics that makes this add-on the first choice comparing to others are the next ones:
- Allows to display RSS feed results dynamically, without create new post types on your WordPress site.
- Set a maximum limit on how many feed items will be shown in the selected post type, regardless of the method you have chosen.
- Choose a specific post or post-type previously created to display the feed content using the WordPress function get_the_content.
- Page template for pages only, select a previously created page to display the feed content, you can also choose the default page template from the plugin or theme’s page templates.
- Generate a [shortcode] using the campaign slug and insert it anywhere on your website (posts, pages, cpt, widgets, and more) to display the feed content.
- Choose a ready-made display layout — List, Grid, or Excerpt & Thumbnail — from a visual picker in the campaign editor.
- Customize the HTML structure where the feed items will be displayed, adjust the layout, styles and visual components to perfectly fit your site.
Requirements
As WPeMatico Add-on requires WPeMatico base plugin installed and activated.
PHP 7.0 or higher
Works with Professional, Better Excerpts and Full Content add-ons but there are not required.
Screenshots
Installation
You can either install it automatically from the WordPress admin, or do it manually:
Using the Plugin Manager
- Click Plugins
- Click Add New
- Search for
wpematico_rss_feed_reader - Click Install
- Click Install Now
- Click Activate Plugin
- Now you use the addon features in WPeMatico’s campaigns
Manually
- Upload
wpematico_rss_feed_readerfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin from the WPeMatico Extensions menu.
FAQ
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Can I use this plug-in without WPeMatico plugin?
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No. Plugin requires WPeMatico Free Version installed and activated.
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Contributors & Developers
“WPeMatico RSS Feed Reader” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Interested in development?
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Changelog
2.0.0 Sep 30, 2026
- New: Display layouts — choose List, Grid, or Excerpt & Thumbnail from a visual picker in the campaign editor.
- New: “Customize HTML” advanced mode to edit the per-item template without changing the selected layout.
- New: ItemImage template tag to show each item’s image (from the source feed) in the image-based layouts.
- Improved: feed items are stored as structured data and rendered on display, so layout or template changes apply immediately without re-fetching. Rendered output is cached for performance.
- Improved: a campaign with a layout selected but no custom template now renders that layout’s preset (Grid / Excerpt & Thumbnail) instead of the plain list template — so campaigns imported from other plugins keep the right arrangement.
- Improved: the Posts column of the campaigns list now shows how many feed items the campaign has stored. Reader campaigns publish no posts, so that column read 0 however many items had been fetched. Needs WPeMatico 2.9.
- Improved: with the “get_the_content()” and “RSS Page Template” display modes the feed is now added below the content of the chosen post or page, which keeps everything that page already said.
- Improved: only the post or page a campaign targets is touched now. The rest of the site is left exactly as the theme and the other plugins render it, embeds included.
- Improved: reader campaigns no longer copy the source’s images, audio or video into your site. They display a feed, so nothing is downloaded to your Media Library or your uploads folder whatever the global media settings say.
- Improved: the Schedule Cron box is available on reader campaigns, so the feed refresh interval can be set from the campaign editor like any other campaign.
- Improved: lowering “Max items to show” now shrinks the stored feed right away instead of waiting for the campaign to fill up again.
- Improved: feed items whose title carries quotation marks, ampersands or apostrophes render correctly in every layout.
- Improved: an item that comes with no image no longer leaves an empty thumbnail placeholder in the Grid and Excerpt & Thumbnail layouts.
- Improved: the plugin row on the Plugins screen links to your RSS Feed Reader campaigns, and the review link goes to this plugin’s own page.
- Improved: clearing a campaign’s stored feed items is limited to users who can edit that campaign.
- Improved: a campaign kept on the Excerpt & Thumbnail arrangement with an item template that has no image now reads as a clean stacked list instead of squeezing the title into a narrow column.
- Improved: the campaign editor no longer offers the Categories, Tags and Post Format boxes on a reader campaign, which publishes no posts. Needs WPeMatico 2.9.
- New: Spanish (es_ES) translation, bundled with the plugin and loaded on every supported WordPress version.
- Works on WPeMatico 2.8.27 and on 2.9. Update this add-on before moving WPeMatico to 2.9, which asks for this version.
1.0.0
- First release