Title: Choosable Sequential RSS Feed
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Choosable Sequential RSS Feed

 *  [chryton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chryton/)
 * (@chryton)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/choosable-sequential-rss-feed/)
 * So the client wants an accordion-style news feed on their front page. I was hoping
   to use an RSS feed in each part of the accordion to display the newest post, 
   then second newest post, etc.
 * So what I am needing is a way to choose how far back the RSS feed starts. For
   instance, i am wanting the second accordion section to start with the second 
   newest post, the third with the third newest post, and so on.
 * Along with JShortcodes, the following is what I am using in functions and was
   hoping to add an `if` statement to make it work but I am a PHP noob and google
   isn’t helping.
 *     ```
       /*
       *	Re-usable RSS feed reader with shortcode
       */
       if ( !function_exists('base_rss_feed') ) {
       	function base_rss_feed($size = 5, $feed = 'http://wordpress.org/news/feed/', $date = false, $cache_time = 1800)
       	{
       		// Include SimplePie RSS parsing engine
       		include_once ABSPATH . WPINC . '/feed.php';
   
       		// Set the cache time for SimplePie
       		add_filter( 'wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime', create_function( '$a', "return cache_time;" ) );
   
       		// Build the SimplePie object
       		$rss = fetch_feed($feed);
   
       		// Check for errors in the RSS XML
       		if (!is_wp_error( $rss ) ) {
   
       			// Set a limit for the number of items to parse
       			$maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity($size);
       			$rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $maxitems);
   
       			// Store the total number of items found in the feed
       			$i = 0;
       			$total_entries = count($rss_items);
   
       			// Output HTML
       			$html = "<ul class='feedlist'>";
       			foreach ($rss_items as $item) {
       				$i++;
   
       				// Add a class of "last" to the last item in the list
       				if( $total_entries == $i ) {
       					$last = " class='last'";
       				} else {
       					$last = "";
       				}
   
       				// Store the data we need from the feed
       				$title = $item->get_title();
       				$link = $item->get_permalink();
       				$desc = $item->get_description();
       				$date_posted = $item->get_date('F j, Y');
   
       				// Output
       				$html .= "<li id='post-$'$last>";
       				$html .= "<h3><a href='$link'>$title::</a></h3>";
       				if( $date == true ) $html .= "<span class='date'>$date_posted</span>";
       				$html .= "<div class='rss-entry'>$desc</div>";
       				$html .= "</li>";
       			}
       			$html .= "</ul>";
   
       		} else {
   
       			$html = "An error occurred while parsing your RSS feed. Check that it's a valid XML file.";
   
       		}
   
       		return $html;
       	}
       }
   
       /** Define [rss] shortcode */
       if( function_exists('base_rss_feed') && !function_exists('base_rss_shortcode') ) {
       	function base_rss_shortcode($atts) {
       		extract(shortcode_atts(array(
       			'size' => '5',
       			'feed' => 'http://www.andrewemauney.com/doublesecret/?feed=rss',
       			'date' => false,
       		), $atts));
   
       		$content = base_rss_feed($size, $feed, $date);
       		return $content;
       	}
       	add_shortcode("rss", "base_rss_shortcode");
       }
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/choosable-sequential-rss-feed/)
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