Title: WordPress xmlPad Plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress xmlPad Plugin

 *  [Andrew2006](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrew2006/)
 * (@andrew2006)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-xmlpad-plugin/)
 * What’s this? XMLPAD plugin for wordpress syndicate [PAD](http://www.padspec.org/padfaq.php)
   file in wordpress.
    REQUIREMENTS
 * To run xmlPad you will need WordPress 2 or greater and PHP 4.3.0 or greater.
 * INSTALLATION
 * You can download it here (xmlpad).
    The installation process is very simple and
   no special steps are needed. Drop the “xmlpad” directory into the “plugins” directory
   in WordPress.
 * The “xmlpad” directory should now contain the files “xmlpad.php”, “reader.php”,
   “
   config.php”, “template.php”, “readme.txt” and the “cache” directory. The cache
   directory must be writeable by web server user. If you are new to linux these
   commands will help you to give proper permissions to cache directory:
 * cd xmlpad/directory
    chmod 755 cache chmod 755 cache/img
 * In the “Plugins” section of “Site Admin”, click “Activate” adjacent to
    “xmlPad”.
   Everything is done! Now you can use your xmlPad plugin for WordPress. USAGE
 * Insert “[xmlpad:URL]” into the post and replace “URL” with the URL of the
    XMLPAD
   file location. Choose “Save” and look at your post. The first time it loads the
   xmlPad plugin will try to get information from remote file and cache it in the
   local directory. The images used by xmlpad file will also be cached.
 * CONFIGURATION
 * You can find the most common setting in the config.php file. Let’s look
    at it
   a bit closer:
 * $config[’cache_lifetime’] – the number of seconds the cache is valid
 * $config[’encoding’] – you can change the output encoding of xmlpad plugin
    to
   that your blog uses
 * $config[’dateformat’] – there are a lot of date fields in xmlpad file and
    you
   can set your own date format
 * $config[’relurls’] – should we use absolute or relative paths for cached images.
   
   The default value is false.
 * The most interesting settings are located in $config[’fields’] variables. The
   
   second key in this associative array is the name of xmlpad field caption and 
   value is the path to element in remote xmlpad file. For example the line
 * $config[’fields’][’Program name’] = ‘program_info/program_name’;
 * tells plugin to read data from “program_info/program_name” xml node and give 
   it
    “Program name” caption in the output. You can also add separators to the 
   output by adding special record to configuration file. Here it is:
 * $config[’fields’][] = ’sep’;
 * Try to experiment with configuration file and you will be able to fully customize
   
   the plugin output.
 * If you need to change the appearance of xmlpad output you can take a look at
   
   template.php file. It’s responsible for output formating. This file is very small
   and it’s easy to understand the logic behind it. Just plain php, nothing more.
 * NOTES
 * The cache time is set to 24 hours by default, so changes to the remote xmlpad
   file
    may not show up immediately. You can set cache time to whatever you want
   in the configuration file as described above. To clarify the cache you need to
   remove all files from “cache” except “img” directory.
 * If you want to change the output encoding you’ll need iconv php extension to 
   be
    installed. Home page: [http://www.opensourceinitiative.net](http://www.opensourceinitiative.net/)
   Plugin download link: [XMLPAD](http://www.opensourceinitiative.net/xmlpad.zip)
   Plugin link: [WordPress xmlPad Plugin](http://www.opensourceinitiative.net/2006/10/10/wordpress-xmlpad-plugin/)

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