RSS Multi Importer for WordPress

RSS Multi Importer is the all-in one plugin that helps you create a feed reader on your WordPress site.  Main features:

  • Templates (which can be customized and saved)
  • Feed to post option (put the feed directly into your blog posts)
  • Excerpts with images
  • Categorize feeds and show groups of feeds on separate pages
  • Pagination

You can get the plugin here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

Here is a quick 6:28 minute video on how to get this plugin up and running fast.

Check out the FAQs here.

If you run a site on Host Gator and are running into problems..there is a good chance my plugin won’t work for you as people using their servers keep running into problems and I’m convinced the problem lies with those servers.

If you like (or don’t like) the plugin, please rate it at WordPress (go here) since that helps others determine if they want to give it a try.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=689394073 Kenny Elkjær Andersen

    Can I see it in action somewhere on the www?

    BR Kenny

  • http://www.secularnewsdaily.com JennyD

     How would I go about displaying an excerpt from the feed, say the first 20 words?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Good idea. It’s not available in this release but I’ll add that capability next week.

      • http://www.secularnewsdaily.com JennyD

         Great, can’t wait! :)

  • http://www.secularnewsdaily.com JennyD

    Are you considering added functionality to allow for multiple aggregated feeds?  Say, on Page 1, feeds on the subject of “Squids”, and on Page 2, feeds on the subject of “Octupi”. 

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Hmm.. That might be tricky. I’ll look into adding that too.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Just added the ability to have excerpts (version .5, just launched).

  • ohsoang

    Does this work with feedburner URLs? I’m not having any luck getting it to work on a website.  

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Hi Ohsoang..  there have been known problems with SimplePie (the program that actually gets the feed) with Feedburner…try ending the feedburner url with

     ?format=xml

    and let me know if this does or does not work.

    Thanks,
    Allen

  • ohsoang

    No luck. :(

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    hmm..ok..I’ll see what I can come up with since everybody is having problems using SimplePie with Feedburner (e.g., http://drupal.org/node/361056

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Ohsoang…can you give me the RSS feed you’re having problems with so I can see if I can get the code to work with feedburner?  Thanks.

  • http://www.christopherwere.com/ Christopher Were

    The plugin-in works some of the time, but there’s one post in an RSS feed it duplicates at every opportunity. But just that one post. I don’t know what in that plug-in is making that happen.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

       Hi Christopher…can you post the RSS feed here and I’ll try it out to see what the problem is.  Thanks.

      • http://www.christopherwere.com/ Christopher Were

         Not to worry, it was a bug with the feed itself. Thanks very much for your hard work :)

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Thank you Christopher!

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Hi Christopher…can you post the RSS feed here and I’ll try it out to see what the problem is.  Thanks.

  • Dermod Moore IAHIP Internet Su

    Hi there thanks for the plugin.

     I’m getting a one-liner just before the two feeds I have selected are displayed at http://iahip.org/newspaper. It goes: file_get_contents could not read the fileAny ideas?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

       Let me look into this and see what’s going on.  I’ll get back to you asap.  Thanks.

  • FKonig

    Hi Allen,

    We recently noticed the feed isn’t showing up anymore.
    http://salusjuristen.nl/actualiteiten/
    It should be on the right side of the page beneath “Rechtennieuws”

    Any ideas?

    Best regards,

    F. Konig
    fjk@salusjuristen.nl

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

       Hi FKonig
      Are you sure you have non-empty RSS feeds?  If there are empty, nothing will show.  If you send me an example of one or two of the RSS feeds you’re using (and they are not empty), I’ll see if there is some bug I can fix.
      Thanks,
      Allen

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Amar-Vora/100003292828578 Amar Vora

    Plugin is working really nice,
    Can I use the shortcode categorywise?

    I have different RSS like Sports, Art, Entertainment etc… Each category have an 6 to 7 RSS Feeds.  I need to import category wise multi URL.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

       Hi Amar
      Thanks…do you mean you’d like to put in all of your feeds and identify a category for each feed, and then have the ability to place the shortcode on different pages that shows only certain categories?

      Allen

  • http://twitter.com/keithr2 kobab

    Hi! Thanks for nice plugin.
    It works fine with my test site with WP3.4.0

    But the last character of Japanese languages excerpt are  garbling. Anyway to fix this?
    http://ksroom.crimsonj.net
    is my test site.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

       Hi Kobab
      Thanks..hmm, since I can’t read Japanese, not sure if I can see the problem on your test site.  Are you saying this is the question mark character I’m seeing?  If so, sometimes this is due to bad ascii characters in the site giving the RSS feed.  Can you send me the RSS feed you’re using?

      Allen

  • http://twitter.com/keithr2 kobab

    Let me ask you about another issue.

    http://ksroom.crimsonj.net
    Please see the bottom of the article. Can you find English sentences which I copied from a Newsweek web article? This is the one I put BEFORE short-code of the plugin. But the texts appears AFTER RSS. Its HTML source shows that RSS feed renders before the texts.

    To solve this, I made a page for the feed and tried to use Exec-PHP plugin to call this page. But the result was same.

    Is this a default setting of the plugin? Any way to make the page contents show BEFORE RSS feed?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

       Hi Kobab
      This is bug in wordpress…I’ll need to find a workaround for it and will post a message here when I fix this and upload a new version.  Thanks for letting me know.

      Allen

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

         Ok..solved the problem..and will post another update within the next few days.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

           New version just uploaded that fixes this problem.

          • http://twitter.com/keithr2 kobab

             Allen,
            Thanks for an update!
            It works fine!

  • Andrew Scott

    Hi – I’ve been experimenting with your plug-in and am very pleased with the results. One aspect of it’s performance, however, I would would like to change: How would it possible for the links to open in the same window as the link itself. 

    It is important for me that all the usual browser funktions are available once the link is clicked but with the “lightbox” method these tools are no longer available in the window that the link opens.

    Thanks once more for the excellent plug-in!

    Andrew

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

       Hi Andrew…thanks.so you would just like it to open like a target=_self (meaning no pop up lightbox)?  If so, I can make the lightbox and option if that’s what you’re looking for.  But as you know, that would mean your web site would be replaced by the web site the link points to.  Let me know.

      Allen

      • Andrew Scott

        Yes target=_self is what I’m looking for. As I am using the tool to aggregate links from other parts of a departmental and multiuser site this is no problem. Thanks for the prompt reply! /Andrew

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

           Ok..I’ll push a new update in a bit so this should solve your problem..look for the option in the settings panel (when you get the update) and there you can choose between opening the links in the lightbox, a new window, or the current window.

          • Andrew Scott

            Many thanks – it’s exactly the solution I need: both same window or new window. Also I’m mightily impressed by your response. I’m making my first WP site and am finding the whole experience very satisfying – especially after such an incredible response from a developer. Respect! 

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

             Great Andrew..also, if you just happen to have a WP site that is open to the public, let me know, since some people want to see an example of how the plugin works, I’d put the web site as a real-world example.

  • Steve m

    hi Alan.

    I like your plugin a lot. I have tried several others and keep coming back to yours.

    Is there  any way to display differentseperate feeds on more than one page? Also, is there a way to include feed images if they are available and a way to format the css on those images?

    Cheers.

    Steve

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

       Hi Steve…thanks…that’s an interesting idea…let me understand first.  You want to input feeds but then say which page they will be displayed on?  If you could give me an example, that would help me understand if I can pull this off.  As for feed images, many rss feeds are now putting images inside the description container, so they show up just like they do in the RSS feed.  But I understand that some may put an image tag (e.g., … and this is what you want to show (and format)?

      Best wishes,
      Allen

      • Steve m

        Hi Alan and thanks for a speedy reply.

        Your understanding is correct.  I would love to be able to have a site with many pages which display a  different feed on each page, sort of like having multiple instances of the plugin operating on lots of pages.

        http://news.yahoo.com/rss/tech Being able to format the tags  in a feed would be great. I would like to be able to customize formating such as borders, margins, position etc.

        Thanks again!

        P.S. I really like the lightbox feature. I haven’t seen that on any other rss plugin I’ve tried.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Steve

          Ok…the first request is coming out in the next update (at the end of this week). You’ll be able to assign every feed to one of 8 categories, then use a shortcode parameter to show the feeds from that category. So you could make up to 8 separate feeds this way.
          As for the images, that would be more difficult as your example from yahoo shows. The images are in the body of the text and not in a separate container…if they we’re in a separate container, then this is possible (in principle one could look for any image in the body, but that would quickly blow up since many sites put the whole kitchen sink of images in the body of RSS feeds these days – like:
          http://feeds.feedburner.com/readwriteweb

          If I can figure something out, I’ll let you know.

          Best wishes,
          Allen

          • Steve m

            Thanks Allen.

            That sounds brilliant, I look forward to that. Is there a reason why you chose 8 categories? Would it be possible for me to add more?

            I appreciate that images in the body would be a pain and I wouldn’t want to include the kitchen sink – messy lol.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi Steve
            How many categories would you like to have?

            Allen

          • Steve m

            hmm a good question. The type of site I’m building is a personal site, which will include news feeds from the many sites I visit. I then intend blogging about certain items that appear in those feeds. So I might visit a feed on tech news, religion, art etc – and then cherry pick one or two items to blog about from them.

            I probably visit 20 odd news sites, blog sites on a regular basis. Having them all on one site (mine) would save me some time. I prefer it this way rather than using a dedicated newsreader.

            Dreaming, I would like unlimited numbers ;-> or the ability to add more than a default number, not necessarily more categories (but that is a brilliant and very useful addition)  - but multiple  instances to include on lots of  pages. Or maybe blank categories that a user can customize?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..I’ll see what I can do…having unlimited or the ability to add more by the user requires more development (new tables, etc.), which I’ll likely do after I push this new update. Thanks for the ideas!

          • Steve m

            Thanks Allen.

            You’re Great!

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

             Hi Steve,
            Would you like to beta test the next major update that comes with categories..if so, let me know.  I’d like to release this asap but need to make sure it’s backward compatible.

  • http://twitter.com/ArepitasCom Arepitas.com

    Hello,
    This plug in is great! I have tried other plug-ins and this one works perfect. However I would like to know if I can limit the number of RSS entries per page. Let me explain, I have almost 300 RSS configured but I just want to show the first 50 most updated. Is there a way I can do that?
    Thanks in advance.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

       Hi,
      Yes, that seems doable…I’m working on a major update right now and I’ll try to include that as an option..should be available in a week or so.

      Thanks,
      Allen

      • http://twitter.com/ArepitasCom Arepitas.com

        Thanks for the quick response! I´ll wait for the update of this great Plug-in.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Hi All
    To anybody who likes my plugin (which I’m working on to bring new features, like being able to categorize an RSS feed and have those in a category put on a separate page), please go to the WordPress site and rate the plugin…this will help others who are trying to decide whether or not to try a plugin.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

    Thanks,
    Allen

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

     If you’d like to beta test my new version of this plugin, leave your contact information here.  The new version allows you to assign categories to all the rss feeds and display them as you like.  There are other features as well.  I need to have at least one other person beta test this before I can release it.

    Thanks,
    Allen

    • http://twitter.com/ArepitasCom Arepitas.com

      Hello, I can test the script mi email is webmaster@arepitas.com. Is one of those new features to limit the number of feeds per page? Also, is there a way to translate the date into another language? Thanks a lot for this script.

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Hi,
        First, thanks for willing to test this..at this point, I think it’s ready to push (I had a few others test it), but I’ll send the next beta (after this) to you for testing.

        The new version will allow you to limit the number of feeds per page. The translation isn’t in the version, but let me see about doing this for the next version.

        Thanks again,
        Allen

  • jrsinc

    Hi Allen, Thank you and great job on this plugin. I am running into one issue. I have other lightboxes on my site that seem to be in conflict with your plugin. I’m wondering if there is anything that can be done about this as I would love to use your plugin on this new site (in development right now). I think the issue is that I am already using the jquery.colorbox-min.js for the other lightboxes on my site. 

    Basically whenever I open one of these lightboxes on a completely separate page than where the rss multi support is located, in the lighbox another copy of the page where the lightbox was opened from is displayed in an Iframe. 

    Any thoughts you have would be much appreciated.  

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

       Hello,
      Yes, I became aware of this problem a few days ago..where people have jquery based code already somewhere else on their page (typically from a wordpress theme that installs that with the theme).  After I push the new updated version later this week, I’ll try to see if there is some way around this (it’s tricky, because it’s hard to code something when you’re not sure what theme people are already using – you can see if the wordpress installation has it running, but not some theme someone might install).  Anyway, thanks for bringing this to my attention again.

      Best wishes,
      Allen

  • http://www.facebook.com/Anders.C.Pettersson Anders Pettersson

    This plugin looks nice. Is it possible to have the feeds in a widget?

    /Anders

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Anders
      Great idea. I’ll make this happen after I push the next update later this week. Allen

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Dana,

      I was able to reproduce the problem…after all the testing,not sure how
      this problem wasn’t found…I’ll see what I can do to put up a fix
      asap.

      Thanks for letting me know.

      Allen

  • Dana Byerly

    Hello,

    Let me first say that I love this plug-in and am very excited about
    getting it working on one of my sites. I had a nice installation of
    about 65 feeds (2 entries per feed) working with v1.1 but it was
    extremely slow to load. I was hoping that the v2 update with the ability
    to limit the number of entries per page would help with initial load
    time but I’ve run into a few issues with the upgrade.

    On my initial update all of my feeds were munged in the “RSS Feeds and
    Options” tab except for the first feed, which was fine. After that each
    feed seemed to be a random combination of Feed Names and Feed URLs, in
    some cases an entry would have two Feed Names, etc. The source (feed
    name) rendering was odd on the actual (public-facing) page as well,
    displaying feeds from other entries as the source.

    I deleted the plug-in and started fresh with v2 (about three times) but
    each time I got further than one feed I encountered another issue.
    Again, the first feed was fine, but each one after that instead of
    listing “Feed Name [number]” and Feed URL [number] it listed “Feed URL
    [number]” and “feed_cat_[number]. Here’s an example:

    Feed Name 1 [text input]

    Feed URL 1 [text input]

    Feed URL 2 [text input]

    feed_cat_2 [text input]

    Feed URL 3 [text input]

    feed_cat_3 [text input]

    In the inputs the feeds were correctly displaying and 0 was populated in the category.

    Many thanks in advance and please let me know if you have any questions,
    I have some screenshots if that’s helpful. I also have some feature
    requests but I’ll save those for a separate post! :)

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    I just pushed an update to the 2.0 release based on someone (Dana, see below) who pointed out a bug. Make sure to download the latest version (2.01).

    Thanks for your patience on this.

    Allen

  • http://twitter.com/sirhcllenrad Chris Darnell

    Having issues signing in with Facebook. Get an error from thr http://wp-coder.net/fb/request_permissions.php page that says:

    Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user ‘tlach_wrp’@'localhost’ (using password: YES) in /home/tlach/public_html/fb/request_permissions.php on line 5
    Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: Access denied for user ‘tlach’@'localhost’ (using password: NO) in /home/tlach/public_html/fb/request_permissions.php on line 6
    Warning: mysql_select_db() [function.mysql-select-db]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/tlach/public_html/fb/request_permissions.php on line 6
    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/tlach/public_html/fb/request_permissions.php:5) in /home/tlach/public_html/fb/request_permissions.php on line 45

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello..my plugin has no relationship with facebook..doesn’t need require to login or anything.

  • http://lynnhappens.com mediaseth

    hello – I love the plugin but since the update, and the latest fix, even, some of the sites from the feed have dropped. Some are listed on the “RSS Feed and Options tab” as two categories, no name, no feed url, though they used to be there. Some lost their feed names, but the url stayed. I don’t even know which ones they were any more and wish I kept a handy list in another document. Have others experienced this issue? Thanks.

    • http://lynnhappens.com mediaseth

      Also, for example, I have “Feed URL 2″ displaying in the same box as “Feed Name 3″ :( I don’t even know….

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Right…as I mentioned, this was fixed in Version 2.01..sorry that this might have caused problems and the need to renter the feeds.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Upcoming in the next update: A widget option to show your feeds, cleaner image handling, separate out Today and Earlier posts. Should be pushed by August 28, 2012.

    • http://www.richmeme.com/ Dennis the ‘Richmeme’

      Suggestion: it will be even better if there’s a dotted line separator / bullet for each feed displayed. what do you think? doable? And regarding image handling, it will be even better if we have option to disable/enable image feed (I think I request too much.. :/)

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Hi Dennis…sure, the next version has the ability to eliminate all images as an option. I’ll see about the dotted line separator too. Thanks.

  • Stukish

    I would like to suggest a feature. Can you make the plug-in smaller by making the feed scroll in a box? That way if you have 6 feeds (or more) you could contain them in a smaller widget window and have them scroll by instead of appearing as a list. Does that make sense? I love the way they pop-up in a window instead of redirecting to another site. Keeping the visitor on my site is critical.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Sure, that makes sense…I’ll see if I can get this option working on the next version.

  • jrsinc

    Hi Allen,

    1) I have found a need to only have one entry per feed. Perhaps others a have as well. I tweaked the file to make this work for myself but it would be cool to not have to do this every time there is an update. Would you consider making this a permanent option?

    2) Can a feed be added to more than one category? To do this would I need to add the same feed twice and then assign each instance to a separate category?

    Thanks again!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Joel
      Sure, I’ll add the ability to have 1 entry per feed..no problem. Having feeds added to more than one category, however, is a bit more complicated (requires a fair amount of development work but let me see what I can do).
      Thanks,
      Allen

  • becky

    Hi there – I love your plugin and would love to see the ability to assign each feed to already established categories and to import as posts. That would be fabulous!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Becky..right now, you can assign each feed to the categories you have established..am I not understanding what you need?

  • http://twitter.com/VeganNewsNet VNN

    Hi!
    All is well with your wonderful plugin, but not getting images (thumbnails). Something I need to setup in WP?
    Thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Do you have the option set to suppress all images…if it is not set to
      suppress images, then the thumbnails might be not coming through if they
      aren’t the first item in the RSS feed. Please send me the link to any
      RSS feed that you believe where the images aren’t coming though.

  • http://twitter.com/VeganNewsNet VNN

    Hi! Thank you for your fast super fast response. Here are the 2 feeds I am using to test: http://veganzeitgeist.org/feed and http://freefromharm.org/feed

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi..well, it appears that neither of these two feeds are putting an image in their feed. To see an example of a feed that puts in a leading image (one that goes first in the feed), look at this http://feeds.gawker.com/Lifehacker/full.
      Let me know if you have any questions about this.

      Best wishes,
      Allen

  • http://twitter.com/VeganNewsNet VNN

    Whoops, forgot to give the web address :)
    http://vegannn.com/society/ working great on both a page and widget, but no images.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      thanks..but as I mentioned below..the images are (which won’t show up on the widget, in any case) are not part of the RSS feed…I do notice that they add some images as a media link, but at this point, only images that are a major part of the RSS feed are included in the plugin. I hope this makes sense.

  • http://twitter.com/VeganNewsNet VNN

    Thank you, I think that makes sense to me. So I need to find feeds that have “images that are a major part of the RSS feed “. Thank you very much for your time with this.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Right..not all feeds have images…it depends on the site that constructs the feeds..let me know if you find one that does and if still doesn’t work, let me know of the site and I’ll grab the feed and test it myself.

  • http://twitter.com/biancagilly Bianca Gilly

    Hello,
    I think this plugin is great.

    I have two questions:

    I attempted to make a table and use the category shortcode on a page, however any time I had more than 1 piece of shortcode (e.g. Cat 1 & Cat 2) the page was blank. Is it possible to show multiple categories on a page in a table or columns?

    Is it possible to have category links at the top which will filter to show only news from 1 category?

    Thank you

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Bianca
      Thanks…the ability to show multiple categories on a page will be available in the next update. As to having links that will filter, that’s interesting and I’ll need to look into that…although technically you could program that yourself (of course, this assumes you like programming :) .

      Allen
      Please spend a moment and rate my plugin by going to
      http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

  • Deborah

    I just recently downloaded your plugin but I have an issue and question:

    1. Issue: when I select Show Excerpt and then go to the front end to test, the “morestyle” link is not working. Here is the url where the plugin is being used: http://www.sleepproducts.org, under the BedPost Blog section in the middle of the page, just below the slider images.

    2. Question: Is there a way to make the date show in a different color or perhaps italicized so that it is different than the rest of the text. Would also like the ability to have the date show under the title.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Deborah
      Thanks..it looks like there is a problem I’ll need to fix for opening up a link in a new window. I’ll get this fixed in the next version that I hope to push this weekend. In the meantime, please use the lightbox option for now (which works). Sorry about this. As for #2, let me see about adding this as an option as well.
      Thanks,
      Allen

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Actually, just found the bug..go and download the latest version (I just pushed it) and it should work now.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Anders.C.Pettersson Anders Pettersson

    Thanks for getting the possibility to have the feeds in a widget, it works great.
    But, if I may wish some more regarding the widget it would be great if it had the same options/settings as the ordinary WP RSS widget. Like show date or not, show excerpt in the title tag, have a RSS icon in the heading, option to link the heading (to the page where you post all feeds) etc.
    /Anders

    • http://www.facebook.com/Anders.C.Pettersson Anders Pettersson

      I should add also that the dates showing in the widget show up in English (and I would like it to show in Swedish as all other dates on the site I’m using it). Is there a setting somewhere or something I have missed?

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Hi Anders….can you try doing this and see if this solves your problem. You need to in an edit the plugin file called wp-rss-multi-importer.php, go to line 1033 and change this:

        date(“D, M d, Y”,$items["mystrdate"])

        to this

        date_i18n(“D, M d, Y”,$items["mystrdate"])

        save the file and see if this changes the date into your local format.
        Let me know if this helps or not. Thanks….

        • http://www.facebook.com/Anders.C.Pettersson Anders Pettersson

          Hi Allen.
          Yes, this worked, but I had to change it in the rss_multi_importer_widget.php since I was looking to get the dates in the widget (I guess it works the same in both places).

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            right…yes, it has to go in both places…glad to hear this fixed the problem. I’ll add this to the code for the next update. Thanks for the help.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Anders..I’ll have the optional date in the next release (along with the option for a smaller footprint and motion). I’ll see what I can do about the rest. Thanks for the ideas.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Just pushed the next update (version 2.15)…thanks for your suggestions..many of those were incorporated in this update (be sure to see the parameters you can configure in the shortcode as this will give you more customization).

  • http://twitter.com/marcomoro2 Marco Morotti

    An addon: I actually like the fact that it open in the same window, I would like the background to be my site instead of the dark grey.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Marco…are you talking about the widget (where you can change the background) or the regular RSS feed (using the shortcode). If the shortcode, it doesn’t change any background colors nor if you open in the same window the plugin doesn’t do anything to background colors. If you provide the link to the page where you’re running the plugin, I can see what’s going on. Thanks.

      • http://twitter.com/marcomoro2 Marco Morotti

        Beg U pardon for my short english: using the shortcode the lightbox opens and the background AROUND the lightbox is dark; I would like to show the backgroun of my site is that possible?

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Marco..well, that’s the way Lightboxes work so that can’t be changed unless you work with the css file and see if somehow you can get the background to be transparent. I can’t make this work in the plugin at this point. In the meantime I’d chose the open in new window option since that will keep you site open even though the reader might go to another site.

  • http://twitter.com/milijulidotcom Milijuli

    can we add comments to rss feeds excerpts or in lightbox?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi, that’s an interesting idea…maybe something I can add in a future update. Thanks.

      • http://twitter.com/milijulidotcom Milijuli

        that’ll be great… thank you…

  • http://www.timmelideo.com/ Tim

    I am trying to use this to add my tumblr feed to a wordpress page and it is pulling the text but not the images. i basically just post an image with some description on my tumblr.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Tim
      right now, the plugin takes in the first image in the description feed. Perhaps if you send me a link to your rss feed, I can see if I can add an option that will help you.
      Allen

      • http://www.timmelideo.com/ Tim

        Thanks for the quick response! http://blog.timmelideo.com/rss

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok…what’s happening is the plugin currently picks up the first image that is hyperlinked..which yours are not. If you know how to edit a plugin’s program (in the admin section of wordpress), I can send you some code to change to see if this helps.

          • Paco Retaco

            I have the same problem as Tim, and is very important for me to get this.
            Think you can help?
            Sorry my bad English.
            Thanks for support.
            Regards.

  • http://www.facebook.com/nikolay.ichpekov Nikolay Ichpekov

    Hey Allen, trying out your very latest image float on left but it’s not working for me again. Seems I’m the stepchild here. :)

    Have a look at http://www.dasilvamotorsport.com/experimental to see what I mean. top 2 items seem ok, 3rd item gets offset. DIvs look ok, imagefix looks fine but the positioning is off which is maybe why subsequent items are thrown to the right for some reason.

    This plugin has a lot of promise and you seem extremely responsive so keep it up. I’d also suggest creating a horizontal layout for the feeds as an alternative. Maybe even a bit of javascript/scrolling animation would make it look very polished.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Nikolay..ok, can you post the link to the RSS feed and I’ll see what’s going on…thanks.

      • http://www.facebook.com/nikolay.ichpekov Nikolay Ichpekov

        rss is: http://classifieds.dasilvamotorsport.com/feed

        The link in my earlier post goes to your plugin that reads that feed.

        Thanks.

        Nik

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Ok…I can see that the image in your rss feed has an inline style of float:left. If you get rid of that in your rss feed and then turn off float:left in the plugin option, that should work.

  • Joe Fasulo

    This is a great product! I love the lightbox feature but for some reason it does not work well on my site when viewing via an iPad. You can see the first few lines of the rss feed that fill up the lightbox but there is no way to scroll rest of page. It might be something on my site causing this but have not found a fix. Anyone else experience this?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Joe…since the lightbox I’m using is not in flash, there should be
      no reason for you to have problems on your ipad (I don’t run into this
      myself, but maybe others do). Now, the scrolling action might be a
      problem with the ipad…anyway, send me a link to your site and I’ll
      take a look.

      Best wishes,
      Allen

      • Joe Fasulo

        Hi Allen, Thanks for responding so quickly. Here is the page with the rss feed… http://www.optimumbank.com/optimumbank-financial-reports/ It works fine on PC’s but for some reason I’ve seen the problem on iPad2, iPad3 and iPhone4 (only devices I have access to). Not a big deal, worst case I will have it load on a new page. Please let me know if you think it might be something on my end…Thanks, Joe (-:
        Joseph Fasulo
        3137 Johnson Street
        Hollywood, Florida 33021
        954-989-3341
        954-610-5000 (Cell)

        fasuloj@hotmail.com

        Subject: [allenweiss] Re: allen weiss – WordPress – RSS Multi Importer

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Joe
          I think this isn’t on your end but is a function of how the iPhone and similar devices handle lightboxes. I just reproduced this on my iPhone so my best suggestion is to open in a new window until I can find (if this is even possible) to this problem.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Ok. Did some research on this and it appears this is a safari issue on the iPhone and iPad. People have found a workaround but only if you control the content. Unfortunately if you bring in an rss feed you don’t control the content. I may see if there is another way to handle this.

  • http://twitter.com/kitemonkey David Hathaway

    Hey Allen, great piece of code! 1 quick question, any way to pull in content based on post tags?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi
      Not sure I understand your question. What do you mean by pulling in post tags?

  • http://twitter.com/milijulidotcom Milijuli

    what are ur plans for your next update, if u dont mind letting us know:)

  • http://twitter.com/milijulidotcom Milijuli

    can we have “more” option rather than post counts

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      You mean have, say 10 posts with a more link to load more posts?

      • http://twitter.com/milijulidotcom Milijuli

        yes… but hey thank you for a great plugin…

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          well, since this would likely be a javascript program, the best I could do with the current program is have an option where it loads, say 10 posts with a button at the end, that when clicked loads, say another 10 posts…for a total of 20. That would be easy. It would take much more to have it so you could continue to add more posts at the bottom.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hey…are you willing to test out a version that allows you to have paging? This would solve the problem without relying on javascript, etc…let me know.

  • Jim Abegglen

    Trying to use the widget to display posts and I’m getting the following error message:

    Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/rss_multi_importer_widget.php on line 121

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,
      Let me check this out and get back to you asap.

      Allen

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        ok…until I fix the code, it looks like this happens if you don’t select any category…have you selected any category (or, at least, all categories)?

  • tofftrader

    Hi there, a really good plugin I’ve been after for ages. I’ve just installed it at http://www.companybug.co.uk/contractor-news-feed/. I was wondering if there was a way of automatically adding NOFOLLOW to all of the links in the feed? Many thanks.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      No problem..will add that on the next update which will get pushed this weekend. Thanks.

      • tofftrader

        Many thanks Allen.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Just pushed a new version (2.17) that adds the option to set the links to NoFollow, plus fixed a bug in the widget where you would get an error message if you didn’t select any categories.

  • Rene Berger

    Hello! Great plugin!
    How about creating single posts from every new feed-reload instead of displaying them on a page?
    Would love that feature much!
    Many thanks.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Thanks Rene. not sure I understand..can you elaborate a bit on your idea?

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Version 2.18 was launched today that allows you to give users the option to see the description from an RSS feed entry if they want to.

  • Dave Navarro

    Does this create a new post for each item imported? Does it let you select the items imported from the feed and format the post?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Not sure what you’re asking here. Each RSS feed brings in all the posts. The plugin can show one or more from the feed. But you can’t format each post differently. All posts are formatted the same.

  • http://www.facebook.com/emmanuel.bilheude Emmanuel Bilheude

    Hello !
    Thanks for this amasing plugin. But I’ve a trouble with your plugin : it uses colorbox, which is used by my theme too ! So, there is a conflict between the two colorbox. I just want to know why the plugin use colorbox, and if I can disable it ?

    Thanks a lot !

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Emmanuel…thanks for letting me know….the plugin uses the colorbox for the lightbox option (that many people use) for viewing the contents of a post. My plugin only puts in the code for colorbox on any page where the plugin is being used…but your theme puts it everywhere (probably on pages it doesn’t need it)..and that’s why you get the conflict. Until I can figure out a solution, you can go into the code and look for the function footer_scripts and take out the lines that refer to colorbox. Does that help?

      • http://www.facebook.com/emmanuel.bilheude Emmanuel Bilheude

        Yes it works perfectly :)
        Thanks

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Great…so, on the next update, look for a checkbox where you can, by checking, not load anything related to colorbox…similar to taking out those lines that you just took out.

          • http://www.facebook.com/emmanuel.bilheude Emmanuel Bilheude

            Thank you to add this option. You do a really good job.
            Thanks !

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Glad to hear it is helping you.

  • Henry

    Hi Allen,
    Nice Plugin. Just wondering if you have plans to add paging and searching to this plugin?
    Keep up the good work.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Henry
      Paging is possible, but not searching since the RSS feeds are being stored in a database.

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Are you willing to test out a version of the plugin that has pagination?

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Hi All….some people have found that colorbox (which handles the lightbox) has a conflict with some themes. So the most recent version of the plugin (2.19) has an option to turn off loading colorbox again. This should solve the problem of conflicts. I hope you enjoy it.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    A couple of people have asked me about putting pagination on the plugin. I have a script ready that now incorporates this…let me know if you’re willing to test it out.

  • Jeff Wilson

    Hey Allen, great plugin! How do I get the content import to a draft, so that I can control what content actually goes live?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Thanks Jeff
      Not sure I understand. Rss feeds pull in all content. If you want the feed not to be live then just don’t add that to the site. Am I missing something?

  • Robert

    Hey,
    I like this plug in verry much. But the server went down. My Hosting Company said that there is a lot of traffic going on with the imported feeds. Is there a Way/ Option to modify the time daley of how often the feeds are checked and where is it to find under wp 3.4.2?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Robert
      Look for the next update..sometime this weekend or early next week. There you will find a new parameter that you can set that will say how long the feeds are cached (i.e., not going out to get new posts). That should solve your problem.

      Best wishes,
      Allen

      • Robert

        Very kind! I’m looking forward to have that. Cheers and a have a nice weekend!

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Ok..at this point, it’s now available in the most recent update..so no reason to test it.

    • http://www.facebook.com/ranasagar सागर बिक्रम राणा

      i check ur page everyday :)

  • http://twitter.com/TonyD753 Tony D

    Plugin works Great! Thanks.

    Is there any way to change the color of the links and titles?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Tony
      In a future update I’ll be providing shortcode parameters where you can change the color of both links and titles. The update should be available in the next week or two.

      Allen

      • http://twitter.com/TonyD753 Tony D

        Great news, and thanks for the quick response.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok..in the next update you can change the title and link color (they are one and the same since the title is hyperlinked), but using this parameter anchorcolor, so to change it to black you would do this

          anchorcolor=”black”

          This will be available in the next update.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ranasagar सागर बिक्रम राणा

    hey allen i introduced your plugin to some companies and they liked it very much. They were asking if there is any section for donation to keep it running.
    thanking you
    milijuli.com

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi, Thanks….ok, on the next update I’ll put a link to donate..I do this mainly for fun, but it may take a bit of financial reward to keep plugging away at it :)

      • http://www.facebook.com/ranasagar सागर बिक्रम राणा

        i agree..

  • Tony

    Hey Allen,

    Great plugin. I am having trouble because the images and post headline are not lining up and its all out of whack. Is there anywhere in the styling for me to edit this?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      You should try going into the settings tab, look at the section on excerpts and try either floating images to the left (or turn this off if it’s now on), resizing (by checking the box). You might also post the URL so I can maybe see what’s happening. Better yet, post the rss feed that is causing the problem.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tayo.awobotu Tayo Ezekiel Awobotu

    hi

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Pushed a new version yesterday with performance improvements. On tap, another version later this week with a clearer admin page and I’m making it so when you change anything in the admin, the transients get deleted. That makes sure any changes are reflected immediately on your site. My near term plans are to start adding templates so you can change the way the RSS feeds are presented.

  • Fire

    Is there any chance of a ‘development’ cache setting value so that you either switch off caching or set it to a minute? Otherwise where are you storing the cached version so I can delete it?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      I’ll be adding the ability to turn off caching in the next version which I’ll make available today. All cache is stored in the options table (it’s a wordpress transient, so it gets stored where wordpress stores transients – in the options table)

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Just pushed an update that gives you more control over caching..now you can turn this off. FYI, I added this because some people said they needed caching because there site was running slow trying to bring in 30 or more RSS feeds..which is a lot to go and get every time the page loads. Caching allows the results of that fetch to be stored temporarily in the database).

  • http://www.facebook.com/tayo.awobotu Tayo Ezekiel Awobotu

    Allen! You don’t reply my Comment… Not Fair

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      What was it about ?

      • http://www.facebook.com/tayo.awobotu Tayo Ezekiel Awobotu

        the image below… share button on each Feed… And Am having problem with the New Update Version 2.22 i did these morning, i get Feeds late from the Site i added… i think its has to doing Cache Setting

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Sent cache at none in admin

          • http://www.facebook.com/tayo.awobotu Tayo Ezekiel Awobotu

            its Working Now… thanks boss

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Send me the rss feed that is causing you problems

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Also, when I used the Rss feed from you site, here is what I get

          http://screencast.com/t/sEHAAzrq

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Hi All
    My next major version will allow people to use various templates (the look and feel of the RSS feed output). the default will be what is in the plugin now and I’ll supply a few variations (and then users who are php savvy can go in and make their own templates. If you see a layout you really think is cool, post it here and I’ll see if I can provide that as one of the default templates.
    Thanks,
    Allen

    • http://twitter.com/StuffiLoveBlog StuffiLove

      I like the option of also being able to just post the photo and a title from the RSS feed…. like this example below:

  • Ali

    Hi,

    I am using your plugin….. I have a question …i want to display last Rss Full article on the main/home page.

    I tried but its only showing the heading and summary…..

    I have already checked Setting > reading > full text

    also in plugin settings > show full excerpt.

    Please help thanks

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi…to help me help you send me the rss feed that that you want the full article…that is the only way I can test to see what is going on…thanks.

  • http://twitter.com/CMSLtd2 CMS Ltd

    Hi
    I added the plugin to Word Press nearly an hour ago – but cannot see anything on my site – is there a time delay or should I activate something?
    David
    david@cms-uk.co.uk

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      First, did you add feeds to the admin section…then, did you also put the shortcode on your page?

      • http://www.facebook.com/gabrielle.m.loomis Gabrielle M Loomis

        I’m having the same issue. Where do I find instructions on how to get it up and running? I installed the plugin, but nothing has happened.
        Thanks!

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Gabrielle,
          Give me 20 minutes and I’ll post a link here to a short video that shows how to quickly get up and running. Actually, something just came up so I’ll post this tomorrow…sorry.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            actually, ok, here is a short movie that shows how to do a quick set up.

            http://screencast.com/t/VeH2hQTFWT4

          • tuba

            Dear admin,

            I can not see picture from rss feed. How to show image of rss feed? please help me

  • http://twitter.com/The_NewsBlog The News Blog

    Allen, Love what you have done but I have gotten feedback by my viewers to make in between each post feed more noticeable, like a line, ect. To separate each new feed post from another besides the little space in between each one. -Xyphien

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Xyphien

      Thanks…in the next version of the plugin I’m going to have templates..one of which is the ability to put a nice line between each entry. In the meantime, if you know css you can go into the file called frontend.css and look for this line:

      div.rss-output {

      padding: 1.025em;

      /* border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc !important; */ /* Uncomment to put a dotted line between each post */
      }

      then uncomment out the border-bottom like this:

      div.rss-output {

      padding: 1.025em;

      border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc !important; /* Uncomment to put a dotted line between each post */
      }

      That should help for now.

      • http://twitter.com/StuffiLoveBlog StuffiLove

        I agree with The News Blog. I love the plugin, but I would like to see more templates. I would like the ability to have columns and lines, etc to make everything look more organized and unified. Right now my page looks unorganized and confusing.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi,
          In the next version, I’m going to have the ability to have templates…if you post an example of, say, a look that you like, I can possibly add that as a template. Also, post the page that you say looks disorganized so I can see what might be going on.

          Thanks,
          Allen

          • http://twitter.com/StuffiLoveBlog StuffiLove

            Here is a link and I’ve attached a pic of one of the looks I like. Thanks :)
            http://sloantechsolutions.com/?page_id=76

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hey, that would be cool..but here’s the thing…every RSS feed would have to provide a well formed image that to work (many do not – check out Yahoo or Gawker who provide wildly different sizes, etc), so something pretty crazy would need to be done to get that to work. But it might be worth a try. Let me first launch the basic template concept (i’m including 6 templates at launch) and then see if this is possible. Thanks for the suggestion.
            Allen

          • http://twitter.com/StuffiLoveBlog StuffiLove

            I totally understand. Thanks and I look forward to your new templates :)

        • http://www.thecolicsolution.com/ Nicolette Roux

          yes please! columns and lines :D

  • becky

    Hello – Is there a way to import individual feeds as posts? Thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Becky
      You mean just having one RSS feed (instead of many) or having just the latest post from an RSS show up? Or something else?

      Allen

  • becky

    Hi – I mean having each article imported as a post. The theme I am using shows the last 3 or 4 posts as articles on the front page, so if I had 1 feed with 10 entries, all 10 entries would come in as individual posts. I import news articles, so I have the following categories – Local News, World News, Business, Entertainment, etc. Thank you so much for your fast reply!!!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Well, technically, you would choose to have only 1 post from each feed…assuming you are sorting with the most recent coming first, that would be the only post you would see from that RSS feed. Have you tried that?

  • becky

    I guess what I’m struggling with is the fact that my main page has many categories and many different feeds on it and I don’t really have a “home page” per se – so I don’t know where to put the shortcode [wp_rss_multi_importer] please refer to questcny.com and hopefully it will help clarify what I am referring to. Thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      ok..here is what I would try…first create a bunch of categories. Then if you want just one feed to go into each category, you can assign it that way, or put several feeds into that one category.

      Then, go to the category options page and it will show you what shortcode (see attached) you should use to display only the feeds from that category. If you choose to only show 1 post for each feed, then you should only get the most recent post (assuming whoever is giving you the feed did their part correctly).

      Does that make sense?

  • http://danetidwell.com Dane Tidwell

    Crosspost from wordpress.org:

    I’m on WordPress Multisite/Network. I’ve activated your plugin and can configure the options but the green buttons on both the RSS Feeds & Category Options don’t do anything when they’re clicked. It doesn’t reload the page or anything, it is almost as if they’re href=# or something.
    I’m using the latest version of Chrome on a Macbook.

    • http://danetidwell.com Dane Tidwell

      It seems to conflict with a plugin called Recipress.

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Hi,
        Let me reproduce this on my local machine and get a fix for you. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

        Allen

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Dane
          Ok..I think I found the problem…until I get the next update, see if you can go in and find line 226 in the wp-rss-multi-importer.php file. find this line

          wp_enqueue_script( ‘add-remove’, plugins_url( ‘scripts/add-remove.js’, __FILE__) );

          and change to

          wp_enqueue_script( ‘add-remove’, plugins_url( ‘scripts/add-remove.js’, __FILE__),array(‘jquery’));

          let me know if that resolves your problem..if it does I’ll push an update with this bug fix.

          Thanks,
          Allen

  • becky

    Hi Allen – Thank you for your reply – I tried your suggestion to create the categories and I found out the issue. The theme I am using requires you to select the categories that you want to appear on the home page and it pulls from the wordpress categories – there is no way to pull from the categories that I created in rss multi importer. Is there a way to link the categories with your plugin to the wp categories?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Becky
      How about this…what theme are you using…I’ll try using that theme and see if I can successfully get my plugin to work there. So, let’s try this…give me the name of your theme and one or 2 RSS feeds you’re trying to use at the same time.

      Will that work for you?

      Best wishes,
      Allen

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Becky
      the categories WordPress uses is different than the categories my plugin uses….this would requires a completely different plugin concept (but is an interesting idea). What you could do, is determine what categories you have on a given page, then create those same categories in my plugin. Then use the widget and put that in the side bar and and title it something like (Posts from Around the Web on this category).

  • http://www.raisingmiro.com ilainie

    Hello. The plugin was installed and doing correctly (wonderfully, I might add) and after the updates, ALL of my rss feeds are no longer functioning. I have tried to re add a feed and after adding any new feed, I get the red error that I need to remove the feed.
    http://brandingvaluenow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-21-at-8.15.07-AM.png

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi. Hmm not sure what the problem is. First, once you add a feed you always get the red button the tells you can remove this feed if you want. You don’t need to remove it. Am I missing something?
      Allen

      • http://www.raisingmiro.com ilainie

        Now all new adds default to the red button. However, when I first installed the feeds were working fine. Not sure the time duration in between the feeds working and stopping to work. They were displaying on our page (now removed) for several days at least without a problem. All of the feeds are rejected, not just one which is why I am inquiring with you to see if it’s a bug within the plugin v. rss server reject.. Any thoughts? I love(ed) the plugin.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi…take a look at this short movie I just made where I added a new feed, and get the red button (as it should be since that will allow me to remove the feed if I want).
          http://screencast.com/t/mVXLpqvF

          As for the duration, make sure you have caching turned off (see the attached) in the options panel.

          Let me know how it goes.

          Allen

  • http://www.facebook.com/eddie.martinie Eddie Martinie

    Hello. Can you help? I added a page and it worked great. then i copies and pasted (not in html view) to add multiple categories. But now i cannot save, publish, delete or anything else to the page. Even if i delete all content and click ‘publish’ i get this error You’ve either entered a category ID that doesn’t exist or have no feeds
    configured for this category. Edit the shortcode on this page with a category ID
    that exists, or go
    here and and get an ID that does exist in your admin panel.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Did you add a parameter to the shortcode? Did the parameter match any if the categories the feeds were assigned to?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      also, I just verified that at this point you cannot add two shortcodes to the same page. What you can do is add more than one category to the shortcode, but simply using commas, as in

      [wp_rss_multi_importer category="1,3"]

      In a future version, I’ll see if I can get multiple different shortcodes to work on a single page.

      • Tyler Regas

        I’m having the same issue as Eddie, but I’m posting feeds using categories in the widget, one category per widget on the homepage. I had added four feeds, each with it’s own category, and had created four widgets on the homepage. Now only the first feed shows in the list. It worked fine with three. Any thoughts?

        Oh, and I’m not using any shortcodes at all just yet.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hey Tyler
          You mean it worked fine with one widget and choosing multiple categories for that one widget, but doesn’t work if you install multiple version of the widget, each with it’s own single category?

          • Tyler Regas

            Close :) I had first run one widget with all categories shown. I had three feeds there. I added categories for each feed, associated the feeds with their categories, then added two additional widgets, configuring each with it’s own category. That worked fine. I then added a fourth feed and category. That’s when I got the missing feed error and then found that only the first feed was in the Feeds list.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok..then the issue is that when I coded the widget I didn’t assume people would make multiple instances of widgets, so there is no id associated with each widget. I’ll need to put that into a future development..but thanks for letting me know.

          • Tyler Regas

            No problem :) Any way now to make each feed distinct in a single widget, like adding CSS to use a different background color for each feed or add a simple banner with the category name before the feed items?

            Thanks for the most ass kicking RSS plugin ever! :D I rated your plugin at WP.org and gave it all five.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Thanks…and by the way, here is a screen shot of 4 widget instances, all pulling in different categories. They all have different titles (but I can certainly add the ability to CSS the titles)…but at least, for me, I can’t reproduce the problem..unless I’m missing something.

          • Tyler Regas

            Hmm. That’s odd. I will delete it and reinstall and see if that cleans things up. I’ll also disable all other 3rd party plugins to see if that’s where my problems are and let you know. Thanks for the immediate feedback. It’s rare on WP space :)

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            right…that’s for sure…most questions I’ve had go unanswered for days or weeks :)

  • Brandon Dennis

    Hey Allen,

    I love the way the plugin displays RSS feeds, but its only letting me add one feed. When I install a fresh copy of the plugin, where there’s no categories setup yet, it lets me create multiple feeds. When I go to create categories, however, only my first feed shows up in the menu. The button still works to let me type in the info for a new feed, but as soon as I hit Save, the new feed disappears. I’ve tried everything I can think of to fix this. Any ideas?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hey Brandon
      Yes, I noticed a problem last evening with the plugin, so I’ll be fixing this today. I’ll post a note here when I found and fixed the bug…thanks for letting me know (it really helps since I don’t have but one beta tester – namely, me :)

      Allen

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Hi,
    I’m working on some bug fixes today that some kind people have noticed…Once again, I’ll fix these and push another version (the probably mainly happens for people new to the plugin). I’ll also be posting some quick start videos which should help new users.

    I’m trying to get these fixed before I push the next major version which includes templates. Thanks for your patience as this project is not my main job :)
    Allen

  • http://www.facebook.com/frank.vest Frank Vest

    The float needs work. With images, the articles stagger with the title of the next article beside the previous article.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Frank,

      yes, I know it does…thanks…this happens because every rss feed (just about) puts out different image sizes and different descriptions. One thing you can do until I figure out how to standardize this (which will come in a template I’ll launch in the next week or so) is simply turn off the float and uncheck the fixed width (or change it with a parameter)….then the image will show up first with the text below). That’s what a photographer who is using my plugin is doing and it appears to be working well for him.

      If you want to post the RSS feed of something that is giving you problems here I’ll see if I can figure something else out.

      Thanks,
      Allen

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    I pushed a new version last night…please download if you are running into any problems…there was a bug that caused some users to not see feeds in the admin panel. Let me know if you run into any problems.

    Also, check out the video (see link above for the 6:28 min quick start.

  • http://twitter.com/barefootbrooke Brooke Whitley

    Allen,

    Is there a way to change the font that the RSS feed appears in?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Brooke..you mean the size, color, etc and is it the title or the text (the text, fyi, is usually determined by the wordpress theme you are using, as well as the color of the hyperlinks (again, that’s determined by your theme). But there may be a workaround if I know more specifically what you want to have happen.

      Best wishes,
      Allen

  • Guest

    I added the plugin and managed to get it working, but I am unable to get photos from the feed to post on my page. I clicked all the right buttons to enable photos, but still nothing. Any advice on how to get this to work?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,
      Please give me an example of an RSS feed where this isn’t working for you…then I’ll see if there is a problem and if not, I’ll post a movie here to show how to make this work.

      Thanks,
      Allen

  • http://www.facebook.com/adavis084 Andrew Davis

    The plugin just stopped working this morning and its been fine for weeks before this.
    Page is just showing line errors.

    also is it possible to set the timezone the feeds display in as my tie always shows 12hrs ago and when i check the actual feed the time is showing correctly so it makes me think it is something in the plugin

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Andrew,
      Hmm…not sure what is going on…nothing special changed as far as the time zone…can you send me either a link to the problem page, or better yet the rss feed that is causing problems as that’s the only way I can see what might be going on.

      Allen

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Andrew..can you give me a link so I can see what might be going on, and also an RSS feed that might be causing this?

      Allen

  • McManiaC

    Is it possible to re-export all feeds as one single valid RSS feed again?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi

      Hey, that’s an interesting idea…let me see if I can pull that off.
      I’m going to be launching a major update (with templates) and once
      that’s launched (hopefully within the next week) I’ll see if I can add
      this feature.

      • McManiaC

        Cool. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/taylor.pensoneau Taylor Terry Pensoneau

    Allen,
    I followed your video and set up the plugin just as shown. After pasting the shortcode and adding feeds in the admin panel nothing happened on the applicable page. I was trying to add a lot of feeds, 22 in fact. Is the number of feeds the reason nothing is happening?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      No…the number of feeds shouldn’t matter…..are you sure you saved the data in the settings options? that’s the first thing I’d look at..also, can you post the page url where you are having trouble..that might help me see what’s going on.

      • http://www.facebook.com/taylor.pensoneau Taylor Terry Pensoneau

        I saved the data in the settings option. The url for the page is http://www.comicsninja.com.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok..well, the first thing I see is your site page isn’t loading completely…I don’t know if that’s the result of my plugin or something else you are running. Look at this short movie I created shows how your site code doesn’t close off with proper html while a normal site has an ending body and html tag. That could be due to your theme, or any number of other things. Try getting rid of my plugin and see if your theme loads correctly.

          http://screencast.com/t/F9NTEfjyDPVs

          • http://www.facebook.com/taylor.pensoneau Taylor Terry Pensoneau

            When I get rid of the plugin it loads correctly.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            hmm…are you running this on your home page…right now, it looks like the inside pages load correctly, but not the home page (at least, not for me even after flushing out my cache)

          • http://www.facebook.com/taylor.pensoneau Taylor Terry Pensoneau

            It is the home page. I tried a different rss widget on the page earlier today and it worked fine.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok..not sure what to say..from here, the home page is messed up..in both Firefox and Safari browsers. I only see the upper nav bar. Anyway, glad you found a widget that appears to work for you.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Or just simply delete the shortcode from your page and see if it loads correctly.

  • http://www.facebook.com/caro.cisco Caro Sanfran Cisco

    Hi Allen, Thx for this. I’d like to suggest having a French version of it, ie, instead of ” Today”: ” Aujourd’hui”, “Earlier” becomes ” Antérieur”, and then dates in the French format, as in: ” Sep.25,2012″ becomes: “25 Sept.2012″ or at the least, a simpler translation like: ” 25/09/2012″. In French the day is put BEFORE the month. Izat possible? Caro

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Bien sur…je vais essayer

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Anybody interested in being a beta tester for the next major update? This one will have a variety of templates. Let me know here or send email to me@allenweiss.com

  • http://www.facebook.com/JulianHoltom Julian Andrew Holtom

    Morning Allen. First, thanks for writing and sharing this great plugin.
    I wanted to know if it’s possible to get the short-codes to allow the same features as appear when using this as a widget? Namely the scrolling action. I’m not using the widget but have the feed in the body of the page and in a restricted height column.

    Your help on this matter would be much appreciated.

    Kind regards

    Julian Holtom

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Julian
      Thanks….could you send me a link to the page where you want this to happen? Also, let me get this straight..you’d like to have a a set height (where you can set it) and have it scroll vertically, like the widget does?

      Allen

      • http://www.facebook.com/JulianHoltom Julian Andrew Holtom

        It’s ok, I’m fighting with the theme settings and using this as intended. I will ask however, if you intend to support snippets with scrolling rather than just headlines? Also to only show one heading at a time?

        One final thing, I’d also like to change the heading size for the widget title. I can see when I inspect the element it’s set to h3 but can’t find out what file/line of code it is I need to change to get that heading in line with the sized used on the rest of my page.

        http://spectrum-group.uk.com/

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Julian
          Ok…..I can do both of these…..the h3 setting is easy, the trickier part is the one headline with snippet at a tiime, since that is very CSS dependent. I’ll see what I can do however to make this happen since it’s something a lot of people might want. Thanks for the suggestion. I’m pushing a major update this week, so this will be available in the next release. You can poke me here if you don’t see it happening fast enough :)

          Thanks,
          Allen

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          also, a quick way to change heading size, assuming you know CSS, is go into your wordpress theme stylesheet (styles.css) and put a style on that h3 (by the way, the h3 is styled by your theme, not by my plugin).. I would need to find a way to override this.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Just launched version 2.3, that now includes templates…you can see what the various templates look like here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PwO8eCiD1w

    • Mauricio Luque

      Just updated and the listings went away.

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Hi Maurico

        Did you make sure to go into the settings page and save the settings options again. Do that and let me know if that solves the problem.

        Allen

    • Mauricio Luque

      Please, delete this and my previous post because, once again, the break came from something unrelated with your script.
      Sorry.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Is anybody having problems with the version I pushed this week (version 2.3)? If so, let me know

    • Toni

      I’m having issues

    • Toni

      Hi Allen. Great plugin i most confess. I’m currently having issues with the new version. it didn’t display any feed on the page. pls help

    • http://www.facebook.com/kdiddilydoodalydo Kelly Lynn

      I am having problems with it. It worked fine before I updated it, now only one category will show. Is there anyway to go back to the previous version?

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Ok. Could you give me the URL of a page where you used to have this working on?

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Also. Did you you have more than one shortcodes on the same page to get the multiple categories to show?

        • http://www.facebook.com/kdiddilydoodalydo Kelly Lynn

          It is on troublesoup.com, in the middle of the page, there are titles Entertainment, Financial and Sports. These are separate posts, but are displayed there in the same category. I did put a separate shortcode on each post, and it worked fine before.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok. I can fix this. In a couple of hours ill send you instructions.

          • http://www.facebook.com/kdiddilydoodalydo Kelly Lynn

            Thank you!

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi Kelly,

            ok..here is a quick fix until I work on this..if you know how to edit
            the plugin’s files in wordpress,

            if you don’t know, you can see where this is by watching this

            http://screencast.com/t/9XTZ8a1394

            go into the main plugin file
            (wp-rss-multi-importer.php) and change line 1387 (which is near the bottom of the file) from this:
            require_once ( WP_RSS_MULTI_TEMPLATES . $template );
            to this
            require( WP_RSS_MULTI_TEMPLATES . $template );

            if you don’t know how to do this, let me know and I’ll see if I can send more instructions…but this will fix your problem until I can push an update which I can’t do until probably Saturday.

          • http://www.facebook.com/kdiddilydoodalydo Kelly Lynn

            Worked great! thank you!

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Perfect. In the next update this will be fixed. Thanks for letting me know.

        • http://www.facebook.com/kdiddilydoodalydo Kelly Lynn

          when you click to the post from the headlines, the feeds do display there. But not how they all did before on the homepage

  • Toni

    hi Allen, after the last update, i noticed the plugin those not work any more. it simply display nothing on the page. pls help. http://www.aprokocity.com

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Which page? I only see the home page. Is that the page?

  • http://www.facebook.com/kdiddilydoodalydo Kelly Lynn

    I am having problems, troubelsoup.com. It worked great until I updated it. I had three categories but now only one will display. Financial, Sports. and Entertainment on the page. I changed nothing but the update, and then even went back through and made sure everything was the same as before. Thanks!

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Ok. I’ll take a look and see if there is something going on.

    • Toni

      great!

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Hi Toni
        Can you
        1) verify that you have the shortcode on that page? If so, then verify
        2) you can see the RSS feeds in the panel titled RSS feeds….are all the feeds showing up there correctly?
        3) did you set up any categories (on the category options panel) and if so, are the feeds correctly assigned to a category?
        4) Make sure to go to the settings page and hit submit.

        Knowing this will help me narrow down what might be going on.

        Thanks,
        Allen

        • Toni

          Everything is in place. I’ve being using the plugin for the past two months without issues. this just happened.
          Thanks

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi Toni…ok..then the next step, if you’re willing is for me to send you an updated script which allows me to have you put in some parameter so I can get some information I need to diagnose this..are you willing?

          • Toni

            Hello Allen… thanks for your concern. I’m willing…any time. just tell me what to do.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok. I’ll send you an email with instructions

          • Toni

            Okie dokie…

  • Nik

    Got latest 2.30 version. Seems to be some javascript conflict in chrome. Sometimes the template/options box is shown, other times not. Clicking on more then back to settings seems to fix it occasionally.

    Love the new templates. Any chance we can get the smooth scroll template to include images like the default?

    Nik

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Nik,
      Thanks for the feedback..interesting as I sometimes work on the plugin using Chrome (just did right now) and don’t see this happening….the tempate/options box comes in as a function, not javascript, so at least I know that isn’t a conflict (while there are indeed other parts that do use javascript and ajax).

      I was thinking about images in the scroll, and I’m going to look into this next. One issue is that it will require image processing (like in the default) to make sure it doesn’t mess up the widths or the scrolling boxes, but its something that should work. Look for this ability in the near future.

      Thanks,
      Allen

      • Nik

        Thanks Allen. Today it seems to be working for me so maybe it was a one off glitch in chrome. I’ll let you know if the issue comes back.

        Looking forward to the near future for that image addition. I’m ok with image processing if you set fixed image sizes.

        Nik

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Nik
          In the meantime, go into the smooth scroll template and change the code where it says showexecpt to

          showexcerpt($items["mydesc"],10,$openWindow,0,$items["mylink"],1,1,$noFollow)

          You’ll need to change the CSS for this template so that the boxes have more height.

          Once you do both of these things to your liking, go to the Template options tab and save both the template and the CSS so you can use these in the next update of the plugin.

  • erika harvey

    hi allen, just beginning to configure now, but my lightbox does not seem to load properly. http://rabbitholefoods.com/news/

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,
      I can see you are running lightbox on your theme (i.e., other plugins and your theme also use their own lightbox – and this is causing a conflict). This happens sometimes when other plugins put their code on pages they shouldn’t be on (something I try to not do with my plugin :) . anyway, there is a setting in the options page at the bottom where you can check it off if you have a lightbox conflict…see if that helps). If not, I’m not sure what I can do because, as I said, it’s being caused by other plugins and your theme that is showing on the same page).

      Allen

      also, my guess its this script that is in conflict

  • Foaad

    Hi Allen,
    Thanks so much for such a great plugin. I had an issue that none of the external links would open in the lightbox. However, after deactivating and reinstalling the plugin, now everything works. The only issue I have is in the front page. None of the external links in the front page open up the lightbox and clicking the link opens the external page right in the same window. Could you please take alook at it and let me know how I can resolve this issue, please? my site is milautoconnection.com. Thank you in advance.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Sure. I’ll take a look and see what’s going on.

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        ok..something look like it stripping off the binding on the colorbox that handles the lightbox. Try this, go into the backend admin on your site, go to plugins and edit my plugin. Choose the page for the widget (called wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/rss_multi_importer_widget.php). Scroll down until you find the code as shown in the attached, and add the word cboxElement to the line indicated by the arrow….then save, and see if this solves the problem..let me know.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      actually, now that i look closer, here is a possibly easier solution…go into the plugin’s admin screen, click on settings options and make sure you have lightbox chosen as the way links open. click save…see if this solves the problem.
      Also, if this doesn’t work, I’m going to push an update tomorrow that should solve this problem.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      FYI. The update 2.31 I just pushed resolves this problem.

  • Manolis

    Hey there,

    I was wondering, how could one auto reload the div with the feeds to display newer ones, without reloading the whole page.
    I’ve seen something similar there: http://www.joepettersson.com/demo/jquery-and-php-rss-autoloader/

    Regards.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,..I’ll see if I can provide this as a template in the near future. Also please spend a moment and rate my plugin by going to
      http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

      It helps a lot with motivation since I don’t make any money improving this plugin :)

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Manolis…I’m going to be releasing an update this weekend which will have a vertical scrolling template. There, you can set the vertical scroll to 1 entry, which will be very similar to the example you indicated.

      Allen

  • http://twitter.com/drdony Dr Don Yates Sr PhD

    I would like to use on more than one page, with different RSS feeds to each page?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Don
      Sure. You can do that. Just assign the feeds to categories. Then use the shortcode parameter to limit the feeds on each page to the categories you want. Let me know if you need help with this.
      Allen

      • http://twitter.com/drdony Dr Don Yates Sr PhD

        Thanks, Let me try and learn something and get back to you

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Great….have fun learning :)

  • John

    Hi there I have been using this plugin for a while now and its been perfect untill I upgraded it. Now I keep getting sent here every time I try to add a new category?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi John
      Not sure what you mean you get sent here after you try to add a new category. You mean you add a new category…then look at the page where the feeds show should and you get a message?

  • john

    sorry I meant to say add a new category to a page, when I go to view the page all I get is a link to here.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Ok. Can you either give me the URL where this is happening (the best option) or the shortcode you are using.

  • David

    I love the flexibility of this plugin. However, I am using it in a custom theme and the space between headlines is just too much. Where and in which CSS file can I edit this?

    http://0348373.netsolhost.com/AHC/

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      go into plugin edit and look for the template.css file. If you don’t know where that is, let me know.

      • David

        Found it. Now where?

      • David

        Figured it out. Thanks

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          great…if it works for you, please spend a moment and rate my plugin by going to
          http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

          thanks

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          also, if you change the template.css file, go to the templates panel in the admin section and save the css file…that way, when I push a new update you can restore your template file.

  • brandnewbaby

    Allen
    Thanks for the plug-in. However, I also have the problem of scrolling excerpts running into each other. Is the cure to add “padding-botton: XXpx” to wp-rss-multi-importer/templates/templates.css? Didn’t work for me…Am I missing something?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,
      Send me the url where this is happening and I might be able to tell you what to change in the templates.css file (yes, that’s where the changes need to be made.
      Allen

  • brandnewbaby

    Thanks Allen – appreciated. Site is http://homesecuritycamerasystems.co/ Widget is on the front page

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      ok..since this is the moving version, it would be easier if you could also give me the RSS feed urls..that way I can examine this on my development server..thanks.

  • brandnewbaby

    Just one feed at this stage – http://www.askhomesecurity.com//feed. Happy to set up a log in at my site if you think it worthwhile.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      well, I found the feed and problem stems from the fact that your sidebar is very narrow..that’s why the side boxes (both my plugin, but also your tag cloud (Most popular)..this may be due to your theme (I can see the both the left and right columns are only 200px wide). Not sure if you want them so narrow..if you do, let me know and I can maybe see what changes need to be made to the css to fit a narrow sidebar.

  • brandnewbaby

    Just changed the column width to 253 and it’s not quite so cramped, although they could maybe do with some more room. Is there an optimum width or does it just depend on set up/feed?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      hmm..this is tricky since to make this work best it should probably be 300 px wide….if you need to have it less than that then the widget may not work. What you could do, however, depending on your theme is add an html widget (where you can put in any html) and use the shortcode for the main plugin..and choose the vertical scrolling template. That would give you a lot more flexibility given your constraints.

  • brandnewbaby

    It’s looking pretty good with a wider column, although I think the shortcode answer will be better in the long run. Will investigate tomorrow.

    Thanks for the prompt replies – appreciated (and well the worth the 5 stars awarded :-) )

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Thank you.

  • Reubs

    Hi, I installed your plugin a couple of days ago, and it worked ok. I noticed today you have updated it so I installed the new updated version. Now the thing does not work any more. Tried resetting everything…still no go
    Prior to this, the plugin won’t show any images I have on my blogs no matter what options I select. If I have to faf about with code to do this, then I think I will have to find another plugin that is more compatible with my site. Shame really, cos yours looks great and shows great promise. keep up the great work :)

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,
      First, for me to help you, you need to 1) give me a url where I can see where the plugin is supposed to work. and 2) regarding the images, send me an RSS url that you think has the images and I’ll give it a try.

      Thanks,
      Allen

  • Alain

    Hi,
    I make an entire traduction of the plugin in French. How make to give you for insert

    Thanks

    Alain

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Alain…are you translating the entire admin section into French? If so, let me know as I can possibly make this into an .po and .mo files for languages.

  • Jenn Ubaldo

    Hey Allen,

    Just wondering if I can create one RSS feed for all the RSS feeds included in a page. Seems like I have no luck. Any chance you can help with this?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Jenn…right now, this would be difficult with the current plugin, but I’m going to see if I can make that work as an option in a future update…thanks for the suggestion.
      Allen

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Hi Jenn
        I just pushed an update that has this ability. Look for it in version 2.34.

        Allen

  • Todd

    Hi, great plugin! We are using the plugin in a Widget, but would like to show 6 or 7 feeds rather than the default 5 or 8. Can this be done using it in a Widget?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Sure. I’ll add that option to the next update ill push this weekend.

  • Toni

    Hey Allen!
    thanks for this great plugin. it has done a lot of good for me. i still have issues with pagination. I need help! any body with an idea

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      you had this working before when you checked off the Youst plugin you were using (recall, they added another layer of pagination that was interfering). Something in your setup, like that, is not allowing query strings to pass, which is needed for pagination with my plugin.

  • Werner

    This is a very great plugin!
    I use it in a responsive design (on http://www.eselsohren.at) and the light-box doesn’t show up on smartphones or is too small.
    Do you know, how I could turn off the light-box on small screens or how could I make it responsive?
    Thank you.
    Werner

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Interesting question…I’ll need to see if WordPress allows for recognition of devices so that the lightbox can be turned off…in any event, I’ve noticed even on large screen mobile devices (like Ipads), lightboxes don’t work well (they won’t scroll). Thanks for bringing this up.
      Allen

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Ok…I got a solution for this and will have it available in the next update.

        • Werner

          great! thank you.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      fyi…I just pushed version 2.35 (you can download it within WordPress) which detects mobile devices and overrides any settings to make sure the links open up in a new window, instead of the lightbox.

  • http://www.thecolicsolution.com/ Nicolette Roux

    any news on a columned theme? also my images dont seem to be displaying on my feeds for some reason :( i know they are there because rss feed posted to facebook and readers displays them..

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi…could you give me a link to where this is happening? That way I can see what’s going on and might have a solution.

      • http://www.thecolicsolution.com/ Nicolette Roux
        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Ok..here is what’s happening…the RSS feed does not have a “leading image” in it (what is what my plugin picks up and shows in the output…you can see the difference between your feed and one that has a leading image):

          http://www.powerfulmothering.com/feed/

          http://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml

          In a future update, I may be able to search through the description looking for images (other than the leading image), but that isn’t available now. What I may do is provide an option to output the entire description tag (which includes the image) but that will make the output kind of a mess).

          • http://www.thecolicsolution.com/ Nicolette Roux

            a mess? but will it work in the meantime until you are able to do a future update? for what i want to do with this page a picture is worth a thousand words type thing.. hehe

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            well, it depends…I may have to write specific code to override a bunch of stuff…the problem here is there are literally thousands of different RSS feeds out there, and many have unique characteristics (like a leading image, or the image stuck in the description or the image stuck in a tag, etc, etc.). Almost all RSS readers do way with these problems by simply stripping out all the images and other html. I’m confronting it by trying to incorporate them into the code, but it’s tricky since, as I’ve said, there is no standard way they are presented.

            I’ll give this a try though :)

          • http://www.thecolicsolution.com/ Nicolette Roux

            sounds way complicated! pity there is no standard protocol :( heres another page i’ve been playing with, because i like the 3 column look, the feeds keep going on and off? is it the extra plugins fault? http://www.powerfulmothering.com/latest-news-from-around-the-web/

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            not sure what you mean, go on and off..I can see there is a problem with 2 of the feeds where it says “There is a problem with the feeds you entered. Go to our support page and we’ll help you diagnose the problem.”…that shouldn’t be due to the other plugins, but something is going on with the RSS feed you have there. I only give that message if the feed is loading properly and it’s usually (not always but typically due) to a problem with the feed.

          • http://www.thecolicsolution.com/ Nicolette Roux

            maybe the rss is just not happy today. thanks for your efforts.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            I may have a fix for this..if you’re willing to give it a try, let me know and I’ll send you instructions.

          • http://www.thecolicsolution.com/ Nicolette Roux

            yes sure :D

      • http://www.thecolicsolution.com/ Nicolette Roux

        it is also not showing images for http://blogs.babycenter.com/feed/ & http://feeds.feedburner.com/cafemom/thestir the one on the page is from my own website.

  • mastr

    Hi Alllen – Great plugin ! I am seeing – Warning: file_get_contents(http:) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/h/h/o/hhoffmann2/html/wp-includes/class-feed.php on line 88 generated on my page. Re-loaded class-feed.php and no change. It’s not Yoast.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      first of all, where are you when you see this…since this error has to do with simplepie (which gets the the RSS feed), this suggests there is something going on with RSS feed you are using….so first,do you get this error when you’re in the admin section or on the site? Can you send me the RSS feed urls you are using?

  • Margo Millure

    Hi Allen, I think I’m going to love your plugin. I’m setting it up for a group site and I have a couple of issues: 1, with getting all the feeds to show up w/o error warnings and 2. with some layout tweaking. First up the feed that seems to be causing a problem: http://feeds.feedburner.com/caroundtheworld/yfEB – sometimes the feed items for it display and other times they don’t – either way, I get this message at the top of the page:

    Warning: getimagesize(http://caroundtheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/adventure-collection-logo.jpg) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in/home/andyha2/public_html/valueluxurytravel/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/wp-rss-multi-importer.php on line 1033

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Margo..I’ll give this feed a try and see if I can figure out what’s going on. This can happen when the feed giving the image is having problems…anyway, I’ll see what’s going on.

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        one other thing, how many different RSS feeds are you using (if you have them assigned to a category, and are display only this category, how many feeds are assigned to that category)? I’m asking because I’m running this on my server with no errors.

        • Margo Millure

          There are 4 feeds and I haven’t set up any individual categories. 3 by feedburner and 1 (mine) by feedblitz. I’ll also mention that for one of the feeds (mine) it wasn’t pulling the first image – so I set my site via php to pull a thumbnail with the feed… it’s a recent problem with my feed that has presented itself elsewhere, which I’d love to get rid of (meaning go back to feed not pulling thumbnail and instead pulling a featured image like it did until recently) – if you have any clue about this feed issue too, let me know: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/thetravelbelles

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            this should be the url for the RSS feed
            http://feeds.feedblitz.com/thetravelbelles&x=1

            Notice the &x=1…that needs to be in there to make it a valid RSS feed, otherwise it is not an RSS feed.

          • Margo Millure

            oh! thanks, for that! As far asthe other issue with http://feeds.feedburner.com/caroundtheworld/yfEB the warning doesn’t show up on a dummy site either – any ideas on what could be the configuration problem at our site end?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            not sure what’s going on…here is this rss feed on my web site (the css is a little strange, but that can easily be fixed), and there is no warning

            http://www.allenweiss.com/test

            Now, if you want, I can send you another file to replace the current main file for the plugin that will check if a an image exists and if not, just not show it…that should eliminate the error message (I’ll be including this in my next update anyway).

          • Margo Millure

            no, problem, Allen – at this rate (as far as me figuring out this stuff) I”ll wait for the update :) I do want to go back to the topic of my feed, when I put it in with the characters at the end, it shows my feed from several month ago if I go directly to the url. http://feeds.feedblitz.com/thetravelbelles&x=1 (what I’m seeing is an article about Melbourne from June)

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Here is what I get when I put in that feed.

            http://www.allenweiss.com/test

            the most recent is today….do you have the sort by set to descending (if ascending, it will pull the oldest articles first)

          • Margo Millure

            thanks – it seems to be resolved now as far as my feed! one step in the right direction. I am curious when the next update will be as far as the other issue? Thank you so much for your help!

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            not sure when the next update will be, but as I said, I can send you a file that should eliminate the error message if you like.

          • Margo Millure

            that would be great! margom3720@gmail.com

          • Margo Millure

            Do you think it has something to do fact that it is the one feed that doesn’t show full content? It seems to be the only feed that’s images don’t resize correctly (on this particular site anyway, images from this feed resize fine on another site where I tested). For clarification, I’m talking about http://feeds.feedburner.com/caroundtheworld/yfEB

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            if you’re using the same plugin on two different sites and getting different results, then it has to do with the sever configuration and how they handle the getimagesize function, which is embedded in their php set up. My plugin calls this getimagesize function.

          • Margo Millure

            thanks!

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            sure… now, if you could please spend a moment and rate my plugin by going to
            http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

            It helps a lot with motivation since I don’t make any money improving this plugin :)

          • http://www.travelbelles.com Margo Millure

            will happily review when issue is resolved :) changing the file out that you sent, didn’t fix issue on this one site – the error shows, and the feed always either shows up with images not resized or doesn’t show up at all. I’ve tried using different versions of caroundtheworld.com ‘s feed to no avail – (xml verson, source feed, etc…) Know the problem is on my side with this site, I don’t know what to try – searching around I saw that 403 errors of this type might have something to do with something in the htaccess file? Any more suggestions?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            well, at this point, the only thing I can do short of looking at your admin directly is trying this.
            go to where the shortcode is placed, and put this in instead.
            [wp_rss_multi_importer dumpthis="1"]

            then send me (via email) what you see on the page…that is the only way I can see what is in the array that comes from the RSS feed.

  • http://twitter.com/VirtualHybrid VirtualHybrid

    Allen, LOVE this plugin. The only issue I see is that it does not appear to be pulling images for me. Even if I see images in the direct RSS feed from other sites, I am not able to see them on mine…looks pretty dull. I saw and tweaked the image settings under ‘setting options’ then excert.. but that does not seem to do anything. An example would be hotair.com, their feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/hotair/main shows images with every post. Should not I be able to pull those? Thanks for a great plugin!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello,
      I looked at the RSS feed, and the images are not in the description tag but in a content tag. The plugin currently looks for content in the typical description tag…which is where simplepie (the wordpress feedreader checks for content). I will need to look into why simplepie isn’t recognizing the content tag (given that this feed is an Atom format. Thanks for alerting me to this.
      Allen

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Ok..here’s the deal. There are two tags to display content…the content tag and description tag. Almost all feeds put the content in the description tag, even though that is used for summaries – which is what RSS feeds typically show. In your case, they put the content in the content tag, which isn’t wrong, but results in the image and everything else being in a tag my plugin isn’t searching for.

      I’ll need to think about adding this functionality, especially when very few sites use the content tag.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    regarding image, if you look at the RSS feed, you’ll see there are no images showing there (check it out in Firefox).
    I’ll need to check the feeds you’re using to see if there is some problem I can reproduce.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Ok..to find out what’s going on with that error message, you need to try this. Change out the short code you have their now and put this in instead:
    [wp_rss_multi_importer dumpthis="1"] (you can add any category parameter if you current have them)

    Then, go to the page and refresh until to see the error message. Above the output you’ll see a lot of garbage (it’s actually an array of the information brought in by the RSS feeds), but that is what I need. So, wait until you get the error message, then send me the garbage output. You can send that to me using the contact form on this site.

  • Javier

    Hi there Weiss: Erroe on Installation. From my WP installation I went to Install Themes and after browing my PC to the place where I had downloaded your Theme, I clicked on Install but it didn’t do it, the message was style.ccs file missing
    Any help is appreciated
    ( I also sent this message via email to you )

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Yes, I just responded by email. Not sure what is happening. I just downloaded the most recent version from wordpress and a) the styles.css file is indeed there, and b) the script that calls for that file is loading it correctly (when you’re in the admin section). I haven’t had anybody else have a problem with this. Did you try installing it from within wordpress (just searching for the plugin and installing it that way)?

    • Javier

      Sorry everybody This is a Plugin and I was treating it as a theme

  • Kosta

    Great plugin! One thing: Even if I use showdate=”0″ option, the date is still shown when “SIMPLE BULLET LIST” template is used.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Kosta,
      Right…many of the shortcodes work on the default template and some others. To make maximum flexibility, I added the ability to edit and save the templates. If you don’t want the date, you can get rid of that by editing the template. If you don’t know how to do this, let me know and I’ll show you.

      Allen

  • Werner

    Hi Allen,
    another question: I would like to have the widget-output as an unordered list, but I don’t want to do something in the php and eventually damage the whole thing.
    Could you show me, how to do it?
    Thank you, again.
    Werner

    P.S.: I would have done something like that (in the wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/rss_multi_importer_widget.php):

    echo ”; echo ‘‘.$items["mytitle"].’‘;
    echo ”; echo ”; if ($showdesc==1 && $addmotion!=1){ $desc= esc_attr(strip_tags(@html_entity_decode($items["mydesc"], ENT_QUOTES, get_option(‘blog_charset’)))); $desc = wp_html_excerpt( $desc, 360 ); if ( ‘[...]‘ == substr( $desc, -5 ) ) $desc = substr( $desc, 0, -5 ) . ‘[…]‘; elseif ( ‘[…]‘ != substr( $desc, -10 ) ) $desc .= ‘ […]‘; $desc = esc_html( $desc ); echo $desc.”; }
    if (!empty($items["mystrdate"]) && $showdate==1){ echo date_i18n(“D, M d, Y”,$items["mystrdate"]).”; } if (!empty($items["myGroup"])){ echo ”.$attribution.”.$items["myGroup"].”; }
    echo ”; echo ”;
    echo ”;

    • Werner

      ‘xept the second ;)

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Hi Werner…are you referring to the widget or the plugin (the shortcode)? Right now, the widget isn’t a template so any changes you make will get overridden by the next update (which I’m launching today). You could change it but you’d need to save it to your computer and upload it again after an update.

        So, is that what you want? If so, I can give you the code to change it to an unordered list..I think you’re close

        • Werner

          Hi Allen,
          close is fine for an amateur like me ;)
          I’d like to have the sidebar-widget as an unordered list (because all others are).
          Thank you for your support.
          Werner

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..in the next version I’ll make a option to have an unordered list.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..if you want, I can send you an updated widget file that will give you the option now to have a simple unordered list. Let me know.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    ok..thanks for getting this…I can see that the array is fine..which is why even though you get the error message, the feed still shows…this tells me there is a problem getting the feed from one or more of the sources. I’m going to look into this and get back to you.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Also, I notice that you have the feeds sorted for Ascending (with the oldest dates coming first)..you might try sorting the other way (with the newest posts coming first). That way I could see if something is going on with the newest posts (whether you’re missing posts due to this error – which helps track down the problem.

      • http://twitter.com/masterpiano Master Piano Tuner

        Yup, feeds decending now, error message has not been back! Thanks Allen

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Hi All…I just pushed the update version of the plugin (version 2.36). This version now picks up enclosed images (these are images in the feed as in the attached). If there are two images in the feed (a leading image – the image that shows first in the description tag – and the enclosed image), the leading image will be used).

  • Werner

    Hi Allen,
    just updated to version 2.36.
    I have a page with category-shortcode displaying 10 feeds with pictures – and after the update some pictured appear over and over again.

    • Werner

      oh, and I’ve lost my menu-bars on smartphones since the update (I think it’s because of the update). the iframe is still there.

      The code is:
      <div id="catnav" style=”border-top:0;”> false,’theme_location’=>’catnav’,'fallback_cb’=>’catnav_fallback’,'items_wrap’=>’%3$s’)); ?> <a href="”>

      and the responsive css:
      @media only screen and (max-width:560px) { .select-menu {
      background:#336699 !important; color:#ffffff !important; } #catnav .select-menu { background:#fff !important; color:#666 !important; }

      and:
      @media only screen and (min-width: 561px) and (max-width: 768px) { .select-menu { background:#336699 !important; color:#ffffff !important; } #catnav .select-menu {
      background:#fff !important; color:#666 !important; } }

    • Werner

      forget about the lost menu-bars on smartphones (posting below), please.
      not everything comes from Multi Importer ;)
      (it was some strange javascript)

  • Dennis

    I just installed 2.37, noting happen when I click the green button, same issue as here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-rss-multi-importer-cant-add-any-feedscategories I disabled ALL plugins and still nothing. I cannot find the code you recommend in that threat (see below) in the wp-rss-multi-importer.php, I saw you made changes to the code so I wonder if I should try this code? Or what else you might recommend?

    function wprssmi_register_scripts() {wp_enqueue_script( ‘jquery’ );wp_enqueue_script( ‘add-remove’, plugins_url( ‘scripts/add-remove.js’, __FILE__), array(‘jquery’), false, false);}

    WP 3.4.2
    Easel – Wolf theme

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Dennis….that fix you identified is from an earlier version (that wouldn’t work now since the folder structure has changes). It seems you may have a javascript conflict. Are you running into the same problem if you try to add a category (that would help diagnose this since it uses the same script).
      Thanks,
      Allen

      • Dennis

        Hi Allen, I have the same issue in Category Settings, As I said, I disabled all plugins without any change to this issue!

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok..try this..you can see if the javascript is loaded correctly but seeing if the file is there…watch this short movie to see how to determine this…view the source on the page where the problem is happening, find the link in the source code and click on it…see if it goes to a working script, as here:
          http://screencast.com/t/aGWT2wlzr96g

          • Dennis

            Here is what I get when I click the link: (Not the same as on the video!)

            jQuery(function(){var z=jQuery(‘div.wprss-input’).size();if(z==0){var i=0;}else{var i=(jQuery(‘div.wprss-input’).get(-1).id);}
            i=parseInt(i)+1;jQuery(‘a#add’).click(function(){jQuery(“Feed Name “+ i+”"+” Delete this feed“+”Feed URL “+ i+”"+”"+”"+”").fadeIn(‘slow’).insertBefore(‘div#buttons’);i++;});jQuery(‘a#addCat’).click(function(){var z=jQuery(‘div.cat-input’).size();if(z==0){var i=0;}else{var i=(jQuery(‘div.cat-input’).get(-1).id);}
            i=parseInt(i)+1;jQuery(“Category Name”+” Delete this feed“+”").fadeIn(‘slow’).insertBefore(‘div#category’);i++;});jQuery(“.btnDelete”).click(function(){var $id=this.id;jQuery(‘div’).remove(‘#’+$id);});});jQuery(document).on(‘change’,’.url-item’,function(){var $messageDiv=jQuery(‘#errormsg’);if(isvalidurl(jQuery(this).val())){jQuery(this).removeClass(“errorfld”);$messageDiv.hide().html(”);}
            else
            {jQuery(this).addClass(“errorfld”);$messageDiv.show().html(‘Bad URL- feeds start with http’);};});function isvalidurl(url){var regexp=/(ftp|http|https|Http|Https)://(w+:{0,1}w*@)?(S+)(:[0-9]+)?(/|/([w#!:.?+=&%@!-/]))?/return regexp.test(url);}
            jQuery(document).on(‘click’,’.btnDeleteNew’,function(){var $id=this.id;jQuery(‘div’).remove(‘#’+$id);});jQuery(document).on(‘change’,'#showdesc’,function(){if(jQuery(this).val()==1){jQuery(‘span#secret’).show();}else{jQuery(‘span#secret’).hide()};});jQuery(document).on(‘change’,'#pagination’,function(){if(jQuery(‘#pagination’).val()==1){jQuery(‘span#pag_options’).show();}else{jQuery(‘span#pag_options’).hide()};});jQuery(document).on(‘change’,’.cat-input’,function(){this.value=this.value.toUpperCase();});jQuery(document).on(‘change’,'#feedslug’,function(){this.value=this.value.replace(/ /g,”);});

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..that’s the correct file….and you’re sure you have javascript enabled on your computer? check this:

            http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=12654

          • Dennis

            Javascript is enabled, this is the only issue I have with my site, my shop and membership is running just fine. Will upload your plugin to another site on same VPS and see what happens.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..let me know what you find,,fyi, sometimes I try this in different browsers as well since some browsers mess with javascript

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            also, could you send me a link to your site..I’d like to see if your theme might be interferring somehow (I do this by loading the same theme and see if it breaks my javascript).

          • Dennis

            Works without an issue on my other site and I use chrome browser. I have had issues in past and had to find other similar plugins. The theme might be the reason?

            This is the theme I use, http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/easel Some months ago he updated the theme and removed the background, I use wolf as the child theme to keep the old background.

            my site http://thetaxhavenreport.com

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..well, I use the scientific method here and if it works on one host (site) and not on the other, then the problem is typically not with the plugin (unless there are different plugins, etc on each site), but with the host.

          • Dennis

            I switched theme to twenty eleven, no change, still wont work. Don’t know but, do you think some leftover from some old plugin I removed that might be conflicting?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            not sure…sounds like it’s not the theme…could be another plugin (some plugins don’t clean up their javascript and create conflict) did you try seeing if this would work in Firefox or Safari? the only way to truly know what’s going on is to use a browser error console..I could do that but would need access to your admin area.

          • Dennis

            Where can I send you login info?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            just use the contact tab on this site..I’ll see what I can do later today.

          • Dennis

            Thanks Allen, email sent.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok…I think we found the problem…try it now and see if it’s working for you.

          • Dennis

            Thank you Allen, your service is outstanding.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Thanks Dennis

  • allemaos

    I had to disable the jquery enqueue in script.php,
    otherwise the “Camera slideshow” WP Plugin and our rest jquery ui’s collapse heroically.
    It works fine up to now.
    10q

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      ok…I would have thought, given WP docs, that when it’s enqueue, it wouldn’t load if there was already jquery there..

  • Vinu

    What Type of URL i need to be add in the “Feed Url” section???

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,
      You put in the url of the RSS feed for a site. If you’re not sure what that is, maybe this will help

      http://www.problogger.net/what-is-rss/

      Let me know if you have any questions.

      Allen

  • Nick

    Hi Allen,
    This is such an awesome concept for a plugin .. nice one!

    Please can I check … when using the ‘Feed to Post Option’ is it possible to have certain feeds assign to different categories or tags? I’m talking about the categories and tags used in the rest of the site .. not the categories under the ‘Category Options’ … unless that’s the same thing?
    Thanks,
    Nick

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Nick…thanks..the way it works is you can have as many categories as you like (under the Category Options)….the feed to post tab recognizes all the categories). Lets say you want to have several feeds going into posts…what you would do is associate these feeds with one category (say Posts). Then choose Posts in the Feed to Post tab. Does this help?

  • http://www.facebook.com/nikolay.ichpekov Nikolay Ichpekov

    Hey Allen,

  • Nik

    Hey Allen,

    Any chance we can get the option of including images in the smooth scroll template? I did your hack (from a few weeks ago) of the smooth scroll php and it works well. Hoping you can include it in your builds.

    Nik

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Nik…I’ll need to think about how to do this since I don’t want to get people confused with the image handling for the default template (which is why I created templates in the first place, so people can hack them to to personalize them and then save them, rather than me creating thousands of options..if you know what I mean).

  • Me

    When or how often does this import the feed?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Once per hour

  • Alex

    Hello, Thank you for your very nice and usefull plugin.
    I’ve got a question for RSS > article
    I want to get as description the item I tryed to modify import-posts.php but I’m not good with programation !!!
    Thanks for your help

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Alex

      ok..that would take some programming as it’s embedded in an enclosure…why don’t you send me the url of the RSS feed you’re talking about and I’ll see how easy or hard this is to do.

      Allen

  • http://www.facebook.com/marijn.dewulf Marijn Dewulf

    Very nice too, but a lot of troubles with LightBox. Sometimes it works, but mostly each link is just loading in the same windows, leaving my website!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi

      If you give me the url where this is happening I may be able to see if there is conflict going on – sometimes another plugin is causing this.

      Allen

  • http://twitter.com/bhollingdrake Bruce Hollingdrake

    Hi Allen, sorry if this has been previously mentioned. Suppose we have 4 feeds coming in but only want 1 of those feeds to go into Posts? Any chance of a selection option for feed to posts?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Bruce
      What I do is create a category called Posts, and assign that one feed to Posts….then choose Posts as the category for the Feed to Post.
      Does that make sense?

      Allen

      • http://twitter.com/bhollingdrake Bruce Hollingdrake

        Sure does, I hadn’t created any categories so the option wasn’t visible. Thanks.

  • http://twitter.com/bhollingdrake Bruce Hollingdrake

    Is there any way to adjust the word count used in the Feed to Post excerpt?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      no right now…presently, it’s just pulling in everything in the description tag – that’s why I called this feature beta…I’m going to add that ability in the next update which will probably be available this weekend.

      • http://twitter.com/bhollingdrake Bruce Hollingdrake

        That would be a welcomed addition – thanks again.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Bruce..I just launched version 2.41 that gives you more options for the Feed to Post.

  • Norm

    Hi Allen. I am interested in this plugin if I can find a way to add a share button on each feed. Is this possible?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Norm
      Interesting idea. What share buttons did you want (a generic share this, twitter, Facebook or what?

      • Norm

        Yes, that’s what I’m looking for – one button opens up option to share with Twitter, FB etc. (I’ve seen it on another site that’s based on RSS aggregation) and it makes it easy to share any of the feeds. They were using sharethis.com

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          well, I can give you a facebook and twitter sharing link right now…maybe add the sharethis option later…look for this twitter and facebook sharing option in the next few hours when I update the plugin.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..I just launched version 2.42 which has a social links option (for Twitter and Facebook) for the default template and the Feed to Posts option.

          • Norm

            Wow, you are certainly on the ball. Thanks

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            No problem..by the way, if you haven’t had a chance, please rate my plugin by going to
            http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

            It helps other people know whether they should try it or not.

          • Norm

            I have the default template but I’m not seeing the social links option showing next to the feeds. Am I doing something wrong? I do have this “Get Social” box ticked in settings “Add social icons (Twitter and Facebook) to each post.”

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..regarding the lightbox, this is a problem with Youtube and Pinterest (and possibly the colorbox code) since it’s trying to bring in an iframe and isn’t making a connection..I’ll need to see if other programmers have found a solution to this.

            As for Pinterest, I’m going to have to make a specific Pinterest template since the RSS feed for this is so different (very short or no title, no description, etc.)…this is why you’re getting weird results. I’ll have a pinterest template in the next update.

          • Norm

            Hi Allen, Twitter and FB social share icons are not displaying / working for me in some browsers (Safari shows question mark as icon) and Firefox does not display the share buttons for me.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..I need to see examples of pages where this isn’t working…that’s the only way I see if this is something in the code, the browser, or what..please give me a url where the share icons don’t show.

          • Norm

            Thanks Allen: http://www.cathlick.com/ Home page and the various pages.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok..3 things..first, do you have the most recent version of the plugin installed (2.45…if not, please upgrade). Second, make sure you choose the default template..right now, you have the regular template..which doesn’t have the social links.

            Finally, on the home page, are you using shortcode on the right hand side or the widget? If it’s the widget, there are no social links in the widget at this point.

            Let me know when about this and I’ll look again.

          • Norm

            Thanks for your help. Yes I have 2.45 installed. Default template is back on. I am not using RSS multi importer in sidebar.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok…I’ll need to look into this as I can see the links to the social icons are fine, but for some reason (not sure why) your server can’t find the images)..I’ll see if I can reproduce that on my servers and find a fix.

          • Norm

            Hi Allen, Just wanted to say thanks for whatever you did these Share buttons are working fine now since I updated

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            great…glad it’s working for you…

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            also, in the the admin section are you able to see this image where your feed urls go (I’m asking because this image is in the same location and pulls in the same way as the social icons)

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok…I located the problem…it turns out the icons were never downloaded to your server. If you contact me, I can show you how to solve this problem now or wait until the next update of the plugin (hopefully this week).

          • Norm

            To clarify: I have not tested Feed to Post – I’m speaking of the regular RSS feeds having social share option

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            yes, the social share for twitter and facebook is in the default template. Did you check off the option for that?

  • SLIAdmin

    My news feed was working great. I just updated the plugin on 10/28/2012 and now my feed no longer works. Do you know what could be the issue? Feed is ‘http://feeds.feedburner.com/surfertoday/surfing’. Thanks

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      when you say it no longer works, is this is the only feed you have (do the other feeds work?) Also what do you mean it no longer works (nothing shows, you get an error message, or what?)…thanks

      • LSIAdmin

        Wow. Thanks for quick reply, Allen! Yeah, I only had one feed and it always worked. I just updated the software today and now my website screen says the following: “You have one feed and it’s not valid. This is likely a problem with the source of the RSS feed. Contact our support forum for help.”. But, Ive since tried another feed and it is also not working. I did notice that I deleted the feed and re-entered it twice and now I only see ‘Feed Name 3′ in my Settings/RSS Feeds tab. Feed name 1 and 2 disappeared. Not sure if that is the problem. Thanks Eric

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok..let’s try this….go to the page where you put in the shortcode and put this in instead:

          [wp_rss_multi_importer dumpthis="1"]

          then let me know when you’ve done this and I’ll check out the page which will give me diagnostics.

          • LSIAdmin

            Done. I get the following message: “Feedsarray(1) { [0]=> array(3) { ["FeedName"]=> string(17) “Surfer Today News” ["FeedURL"]=> string(47) “http://feeds.feedburner.com/surfertoday/surfing” ["FeedCatID"]=> string(1) “0″ } } WP HTTP Error: Couldn’t resolve host ‘feeds.feedburner.com’You have one feed and it’s not valid. This is likely a problem with the source of the RSS feed. Contact our support forum for help.”

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..did you happen to change servers recently or done anything other than upgrade the plugin (and didn’t change anything else)? I’m asking because the error indicates this is problem with the server (not the plugin) trying to make a connection with feedburner.

          • LSIAdmin

            I havent changed servers. My site is hosted by hostgator and no notifications were sent. However, I just accepted ‘all’ updates so it may have included a WordPress upgrade. I just noticed that when I try to search for new plug ins now in WordPress Im getting the following error: “An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with WordPress.org or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums.”. So, could this be a WordPress issue or are you suggesting it might be host server config? Thanks

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            well, this could be a problem with hostgator since you’re seeing it in other situations…I have this up and running fine on my server:

            http://www.allenweiss.com/test

            Also, are you sure you are running version 2.41 of my plugin (I ask because I’m not seeing diagnostics come out on the page that specifically added during that version.

          • SLIAdmin

            Yep, Ive got 2.41 installed. I will touch base with HostGator. A little nervous as this seems to be an issue others have had with WordPress (found several instances in their Forum) but i couldnt find a consistent resolution. I guess I will start with my host. Thanks for your help, Allen. Your plug-in is awesome!

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Thanks..also, you might try other RSS feeds to see if this is a problem between hostgator and feedburner..like try

            Reuters

            http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/INtopNews

            CNN

            http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss

            The Verge

            http://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml

          • LSIAdmin

            I completed this. U can see the code on my main page surfinglongisland.com. Not sure if my previous message came through..

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            yes, it has nothing to do with deleting feeds, etc…as I asked, have you changed servers or anything since you’re getting a connection failure.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          It looks like you got this working…did you find something out from hostgator that helped?

          • SLIAdmin

            Sorry Allen, I had to step out. I just called HostGator. Ive deactivated all my plugins and the problem went away. I have since activated yours and it is working fine now. So, Im still going through the rest of them to see which one is the culprit. Again, I really appreciate your quick response and you plug in is the best part of my site. Thanks! Eric

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Thanks for the update Eric. If you find a culprit in this will you let me know as it will help with others who run into the same problem.

          • SLIAdmin

            The cuplrit was another plugin called ‘Sliding Youtube Gallery’ by Webeng. It caused the problem with both my add in search capability as well as the RSS feed.. Thanks for helping, Allen.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Great to know…thanks…also if you haven’t had a chance, please rate my plugin by going to
            http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

            It helps other people know whether they should try it or not.

  • Norm

    Youtube channels and Pinterest boards have RSS feeds which are very handy. When I add their RSS feeds they import and display fine but the only problem is that neither of them open in the lightbox popup. Any way to fix that? (I’d imagine that’s out of your control?)

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      let me try this and see if there is something going on that prevents the lightbox from working…in principle this should be a problem. Can you give me a specific RSS feed where this is happening so I can see if I can reproduce the problem?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Norm. I just pushed an update that handle the YouTube videos in the lightbox

  • http://www.facebook.com/bob.eager.5 Bob Eager

    Hello Allen,

    I am trying out RSS multi importer to show images from a Pinterest feed in a site.
    There are plugins for that and they work but they use the smaller thumbnail images which results in poor quality.
    So I am looking into a better solution and trying out your pluging.
    I added the feeds from the RSS feeds pane and added the shortcode to a testpage.

    The feeds show in the page but the images do not.

    the testpage is here: http://astridpoot.nl/wp/test-2/

    the Pinterest feed (which uses thumbnails) is here: http://pinterest.com/astridpoot/omg-advertising.rss
    What I am really interested in is using the high-res images which are used in this feed: http://pinterestfeed.appspot.com/b/astridpoot/images-for-generating-ideas.rss

    My question: How can I make the images show in my page?

    THank you

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Bob…it looks like you’ve chosen the boxes template which doesn’t (at least right now) allow for showing images..but try the default template and see if this is better. The plugin captures whatever image is in the description tag (hi res or not) but needs to resize them to fit. You can override that in the shortcode (if you’re using the default template), by using this:

      [wp_rss_multi_importer maximgwidth="160"] (or whatever max width you want

      • http://www.facebook.com/bob.eager.5 Bob Eager

        OK Allen, that works, very cool, thank you. But clicking in the image does not link me to the corresponding picture on the Pinterest board. The boxed template did link to the source.Any suggestions on how to fix that?Thanks again.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Yes, that all depends on the template and the RSS feed and how the image comes into the RSS feed…I’ll look to see if Pinterest’s feed includes a hyperlinked image (many do not) and then see if I can associate the picture with the link.

          • http://www.facebook.com/bob.eager.5 Bob Eager

            Yes, I updated the plugin, it works now, fantastic.I am reluctant to start using this on the site though: In order to get the full sized images from Pinterest I use this app: http://pinterestfeed.appspot.com/ which gives me the full size images instead of the small thumbnails that Pinterest uses in its feeds. The app runs on Google app engine, which uses quotas, meaning that the service will not work when the quota is hit. Which happens a lot since it is popular. If anybody has a workaround I’d like to hear it. Thank you!

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi Bob
            It looks like Pinterest may have a limit on pulling images too..anyway, you can set the plugin to pull in n number of posts, so that you’re quota hit.

            I guess the main issue is whether you’re desire is to get full sized images on your site so that people will then click to Pinterest or what exactly you need to have on your site for this to work for you.
            Allen

          • http://www.facebook.com/bob.eager.5 Bob Eager

            I did not intend to show the full size images as such, but rather reduce them on the page so that I have a quality image. The thumbs that Pinterest gives me standard are a bit on the small side. For a reason, offcourse it is using their bandwidth. For the site, it may or may not be a good idea trying to serve the bigger images, especially for users on mobile devices. For the moment I’ll wait until the developer of the pinterest appspot has a solution for the appengine quota. Or any other solution that turns up. Still, the plugin and your support is awesome and I will rate it accordingly. THANKS

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Ok..I see what’s happening (Pinterest has messed up their links…the links around their photos are not fully qualified links….curious..anyway, I’ll have this fixed (a work around for Pinterest) in my next update which should be launched in the next day or so).

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok…it looks like something else is happening…if you want I can give you a fix right now until the update is launched.

  • Marc Krick

    Hi,

    I just updated te plugin and now i have an error massage:

    Warning: Illegal string offset ‘feedslug’ in C:domainsovdp-asse.bewwwrootwp-contentpluginswp-rss-multi-importerincrss_feed.php on line 18

    When i desactivete the plugin this message is also gone.

    What to do?

    Marc

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Marc

      That’s strange…was this the first time you updated the plugin in awhile since nothing changed in the last month or so. You can get rid of this message by editing a file for the plugin which I can show you. Just go to that file (in the wordpress admin section under Plugins and edit my plugin files..then find the rss_feed.php file and comment out this line like this:

      // add_feed($feed_options['feedslug'], ‘rssmi_feed’);

      • Marc Krick

        Hi Allen,

        Thank you fot the quick response.
        I changed the file and the message is gone.
        I never had this problem since I update your plugin at a regular base.

        Thanks

        Marc

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Marc,
          No problem..in fact, I just tried to reproduce it here on my development machine (where there is no table entry – which is what was happening on your end), but that didn’t result in an error message. Anyway, I will add error checking on the next update regardless so it shouldn’t show up anymore…thanks for letting me know (this is the benefit of having people tell me about bugs since I can’t always see them on either my development or production web sites).

          Allen

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          the new version has this fixed (version 2.45)

  • Indran

    Hi Allan, I tried to use the plugin in the side bar since I want to open the RSS link in a letter box. The issue is that the image doesn’t show in the side bars. But it works fine as a post. Any work around to get the image show on the side bar?

    Thanks

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi
      Are you using the widget or trying to use the shortcode in the sidebar?

      • Indran

        I am using the widget, picking up by category. The issue is that I cannot get the images to show.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Ok. Right now the widget does not show images. This might be available in an update although the images would need to resized very small.

          • http://myhavens.com/ Indran

            Thanks Allan. I will wait for the update.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi…would you be willing to try some code to see if this gives you what you want?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Also I assume know you can open the rss link in a letterbox using the short code on any page. You don’t need the widget for this.

  • Ed

    Allen, great widget. I have a black background on the site and need to thus change to color of the headline that is on the scroll. I’ve looked into the editor and tried to change several color palette codes but no luck. Where should I be looking? Thanks

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Thanks Ed. Ok, here is one way you can change this…go to the template.css file and add this to the top of the file:

      div.news a{
      color:#cccccc; //or whatever color you want
      }

      That should work…now, if this gets you what you want, then after changing the template.css file, go into the admin section to the template tab and make sure to click on Save the CSS…that way the template with your changes will go into the database and then whenever I update the plugin (which overwrites all the files) you can just go back and hit restore and the css (with your changes) will be ready.

  • Ron Stallman

    Allen, Thanks for a great plugin. What is the easiest way to have different feeds appear on separate pages? We are creating a outdoor guide and pulling feeds from different states. Each state would have their individual page and data feed.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Ron

      Here’s how you do it. First, set up categories on the Category Settings tab (perhaps title each category with a state name).

      Then add the feeds and you’ll see you’ll be able (once you save a feed) to then assign it to a category (a feed can then be assigned to a category).

      You’ll notice on the category page that each category also as an ID number (the shortcode is given for you). Just take the shortcode for any category and place that on the page where you want the feed that is assigned to that category to go).

      That’s it.

      Let me know if you have any questions.

      Best wishes,
      Allen

      • Ron Stallman

        Allen, Thanks for the reply. Is there a limit to the number of feeds? Here is a link to a sample page http://www.equine-traveler.com/flyfishing/trip-planner/oregon/ it is only showing the first item of the feed. Any suggestions?

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Ron
          There is no limit. You set that in the settings options tab in the admin section. It’s probably set for a low number. You can change that.

          Let me know if you need help with this.
          Allen

          • Ron Stallman

            Allen, This is a huge project for us. Do you do consulting?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Yes, I do consulting on Internet strategy

          • Ron Stallman

            Please contact me at ron@ads-synergy.com

  • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

    Thanks for your work on this great plug in! I would like to be able to show an excerpt on the front page, and have the link go into the full text of the story on my site. Is there a way to get full text rss instead of excerpt? I’m happy to drop the code in myself if you want to tell me what to put in which file. Also, I’d love to exclude posts that are supershort — any way to add that setting? Thanks much

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi.. well, this is tricky since there is no way to know which page the full text would be on unless I know what permalink setting the person is using (and that is very difficult to know with code). If you’d like to try it, the file is /inc/import_posts.php..let me know if you get something to work.

      • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

        Maybe I explained badly — I know how to limit the length of posts on the front page. What I don’t know how to do is pull the full text rss as a post, instead of a short excerpt.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Oh. Ok. This should be an option on the feed to post tab.

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            Do you mean its an existing option I am overlooking, or an option you need to develop?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Well go to the admin of the plugin, click on feed to post options and see if there is a setting for number of words to bring in to the post. If its not there I will need to add that. Let me know (not at my computer right now else I would do this)

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            Yes, there is a setting for number of words, and there is a “give me everything” setting, so a no limit setting. I went into your files via ftp and increased the max to 1000 to see if that would do anything, but no change. I think that the problem is that you’re pulling the description or summary field, and most people put just a short summary in that field, so no matter how you expand the character limit, the amount of text available to display in that field doesn’t change. It looks like you’re not pulling the full text, whatever field that’s in — no amount of Googleing has turned up that answer.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Yes. That is the problem with RSS feeds. It’s up to the provider to determine where they put in the content and most do it in the description tag. I’ll need to see if I can determine if its possible to pull in other content as that depends on how idiosyncratic the tags are. Why don’t you give me the rss URL you want to use and ill see if I can figure something out.

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            According to wikipedia, “the RSS 2.* core specification does not support providing full-text in
            addition to a synopsis, but the RSS 1.* markup can be (and often is)
            used as an extension.” Atom also seems to allow full text. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29. I have no idea how to implement, however. At the moment, I’m just playing around with various feeds right now, no one in particular I want, just the functionality in general.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Right. I know rss and atom differ. Just need an example to see if I can parse something out. Thx

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi…hey, I may have a solution for you..let me know if you’re interested…an easy fix that will bring in the content (or the description if the content tag doesn’t exist).

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            Yes of course I am! Thanks for getting back to me! I look forward to hearing about the solution.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok. Do you how to go in an edit a plugin file?

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            yes

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok…simply go into the main page (wp-rss-multi-importer.php) and find the line that says:
            $myarray[] = array(“mystrdate”=>strtotime($item->get_date()),”mytitle”=>$item->get_title(),”mylink”=>$item->get_link(),”myGroup”=>$feeditem["FeedName"],”mydesc”=>$item->get_description(),”myimage”=>$mediaImage,”mycatid”=>$feeditem["FeedCatID"]);
            change the word get_description to get_content, like this

            $myarray[] = array(“mystrdate”=>strtotime($item->get_date()),”mytitle”=>$item->get_title(),”mylink”=>$item->get_link(),”myGroup”=>$feeditem["FeedName"],”mydesc”=>$item->get_content(),”myimage”=>$mediaImage,”mycatid”=>$feeditem["FeedCatID"]);

            There are 2 lines that have this string, so replace get_description with get_content in both.
            What this does is force simplepie (that reads the rss feed) to look first for the content enclosure (where usually the longer story resides) and uses that, and if there isn’t a content enclosure it uses the description tag.

            I’m hoping this solves your problem..if not then it may be your rss feed isn’t using the typical content enclosure that most sites use to put their content in.
            Let me know if you have any questions.

            Best wishes,
            Allen

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            perfect, trying now. Thanks!

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Also if you want this for the feed to post feature you need to the same thing in the import_posts.php file

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            just saw this — I will give it a try! Thanks!

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            It’s alive!!! This appears to have fixed it. Thanks!

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Great. Didn’t know this was for feed to post. Anyway the most recent version I pushed this morning had the code changed in the places you changed.

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            I saw that! Thanks again for all your help! Do you have a favorite reference you suggest to newbies looking to learn how to work with RSS/atom & etc?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Well. Guess I learned all of this online. Programming actually makes you learn this stuff. So I suggest starting some small project and you learn very quickly.
            Now this RSS and atom stuff is tricky because they are standards but not everyone adheres to the standards. That’s why my plugin is tricky since I can only find out things when people tell me it’s not working for them.

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            Sound advice. Thanks much!

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            It doesn’t appear to be working. I tried it out with a number of feeds, including this one, which shows up as a full text feed in my reader. It’s only showing summaries on WP: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ochousingnewscom. Is it possible that the excerpt_functions.php file also needs to be edited? (fwiw, there are 4 instances of get_content in the wp-rss-multi-importer.php file).

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hmm…all the feed content is put into the array using the get_contents tag….I’ll need to check this out tomorrow, but you can see what gets into the get_contents field by using the dumpthis=”1″ parameter in the shortcode (which gives you the array of what is picked up in the rss feed). I can see that the feed you gave above does have a content enclosure, so this should have been picked up.

            And yes, there are 4 instances, but 2 of them are commented out.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            actually, I just dumped out the array for that feed and the get_contents is indeed picking up all the content that it is supposed to. Now, one thing is that if you are going to be pulling out everything, including all the images, the excerpt_functions.php needs to be changed (at least a parameter needs to be added) because the code is written to strip out all img and a tags.

            The key question to me is where do you want all the content to show up? Is this going to be used in the feed to post feature or in the more typical rss feed template?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi,

            Ok..I put your feed into the plugin, chose show me everything and this is what I get…so it appears to be working correctly

            http://screencast.com/t/aeX539CTGFf

            are you not getting the same thing?

            Allen

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            Hmm. No, still getting excerpts. Deleted and reinstalled the plug in twice. Updated to the new version. Still no dice. Could be something to do with the theme I am using. Well, thanks so much for trying so hard to help me. One day I’d like to learn how a USC Marketing Professor has time to figure out to be such a great and helpful coder in his spare time! :)

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Happy to tell you the story but you can get a glimpse of my background by seeing what else I do http://www.marketingprofs.com where I’m the CEO :)

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            Yes, I saw that. I taught at USC for a while and ran Online Journalism Review as well. Sorry we never met!

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            What department? Yes, maybe we’ll meet sometime

          • http://twitter.com/nicolosi Nicolosi

            Journalism.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Oh did you know Robert Scheer who teaches there?

  • Pedro Vale

    my rss are encoding = “UTF-8″ my wordpress (3.4.2) site is also, but the presentation generated by your plugin (2.45) presents a problem, in the words with accents appears a symbol (?)

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Can you give me an RSS feed that you’re using that shows this problem?

      • Pedro Vale
        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok..you can make a change in the excerpt_functions.php file where it says this

          $content = htmlentities($content, ENT_COMPAT, ‘UTF-8′);

          and comment out the line, like this

          // $content = htmlentities($content, ENT_COMPAT, ‘UTF-8′);

          that should solve the problem.

          • Pedro Vale

            Yes thanks, but one of the feeds is different, has the two situations, part of the news administrator appeared well and ads from users appeared badly, now the situation has reversed. But only in this feed, probably will not have a solution to this feed, but aproveiro to recommend an option to the plugin, a field of choice for encoding associated with each feed individually.

            Bad feed: http://www.horeca.clipdir.com/rss/listings/

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..I’ll need to see what is going on since it’s not clear yet what is causing the problem..fortunately I can reproduce it on my development site so I’ll let you know when I get a solution.

          • Pedro Vale

            resolved the issue inserting ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8 do not know if it will be the right solution, but everything seems fine.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            the culprit now appears to be the ccedil accent…but I’m having difficulty trapping for it right now..if I can solve this I’ll let you know, but use your solution for now (right, it’s not the best but will work)

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok…want to try another solution? try this..go into the excerpt function php file and do this:

            1. Add this line right before return $content;

            $content =_decodeAccented($content);

            then add this function

            function _decodeAccented($encodedValue, $options = array()) {
            $options += array(
            ‘quote’ => ENT_NOQUOTES,
            ‘encoding’ => ‘UTF-8′,
            );
            return preg_replace_callback(
            ‘/&w(acute|uml|tilde|cedil|circ);/’,
            create_function(
            ‘$m’,
            ‘return html_entity_decode($m[0], ‘ . $options['quote'] . ‘, “‘ .
            $options['encoding'] . ‘”);’
            ),
            $encodedValue
            );
            }

            if you don’t know how to do this, let me know and I’ll give you the whole file.

          • Pedro Vale

            It’s almost done, missing the following flag characters: (à) and (º)

            I do not know if missing any more, but the characters are Portuguese ãáâàéêíõóôúç

          • Pedro Vale

            beyond that modification should I keep?

            / / $ content = htmlentities ($ content, ENT_COMPAT, ‘UTF-8′);

            or

            $ content = htmlentities ($ content, ENT_COMPAT, ‘UTF-8′);

            if this change remains have everything resolved

            I have nothing, my mistake

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            No don’t uncommercial that line. The function replaces that.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            also, this is done by exception…so is this spanish or portuguese?

          • Pedro Vale

            Portuguese

          • Pedro Vale

            seems that with / / the texts that are not html still persists in the error in (à)

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Well send me the RSS feed where you are still having problems.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            you can add grave and ordm and see if that helps, as in

            acute|uml|tilde|cedil|circ|grave|ordm

          • Pedro Vale

            solved but persists (º) or (ª)

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok. I need an RSS feed to get this working.

          • Pedro Vale
          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            I’m not seeing any problems with this feed (at least not the last 20 entries). ordm and ordf are supposed to pick up the two accents you indicated..try adding ordf and see if that helps.

          • Pedro Vale

            yes, I added as recommended
            but in line:

            / / $ content = htmlentities ($ content, ENT_COMPAT, ‘UTF-8′);
            It is well

            $ content = htmlentities ($ content, ENT_COMPAT, ‘UTF-8′);
            Persists (?) Instead of (ª)

            keep left / /
            I think have been resolved

            Thanks, I recommend

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Right. That commented out line can be deleted.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Also if all is well now then please rate the plugin at WordPress so others will know its worth downloading even if for a trial. Thx

  • http://twitter.com/milijulidotcom Milijuli

    hello allen,

    when i read my feed on front page i get this at the top.

    “There is a problem with the feeds you entered. Go to our support page and we’ll help you diagnose the problem.Earlier”

    is there any problem???

    Thank you

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Yes. It appears there is a problem. Here is what to do. Add this to the shortcode
      dumpthis=”1″

      Then let me know what you get on the page.

  • Charles

    Thank you for this wonder plugin. I have one small issue, the plugin is no picking the rss feed i have set quick enough. it can up to 6 to 7 hours to update the feeds. Is there something i am missing on the setup. I would like it to pick the feed immediately they are generated. Is this possible. Kind Regards

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Do have caching set in the settings tab? If you want the feed not to be cached, make sure this is set to no cache. Also, give me an example of a feed that is not working for you so I can see if I can reproduce the issue.

      • Charles

        i have removed the cache and at the moment seem to be picking the feeds. Is there a way to make sure the feed picked are in the same order as the source. I have noticed the order is different from the source. Please see http://eastandard.net/?page_id=313 and the souce is http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/africa/rss.xml

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Charles

          First of all, the plugin sorts by date and time…..what I see in the rss feed is that the order is not always sorted in time..attached is an example. Does the help you understand what’s going on?

  • http://www.flickharrison.com/ Flick Harrison

    Hey Allen… thanks for the plugin!

    I can’t get it to work with this new update. It’s been working fine, but every time I update I have to delete the feed and re-add it. But this time, that hasn’t worked – still getting

    “You have one feed and it’s not valid. This is likely a problem with
    the source of the RSS feed. Contact our support forum for help.”

    This feed has worked in the past. I tried your “dumpthis” shortcode and got this:

    array(1) {
    [0]=>
    array(3) {
    ["FeedName"]=>
    string(23) “Our Footprint @ Renfrew”
    ["FeedURL"]=>
    string(55) “http://ourfootprintrenfrew.somethingcollective.ca/feed/”
    ["FeedCatID"]=>
    string(1) “0″
    }
    }
    The data could not be converted to UTF-8. You MUST have either the iconv
    or mbstring extension installed. Upgrading to PHP 5.x (which includes
    iconv) is highly recommended.You have one feed and it’s not valid. This
    is likely a problem with the source of the RSS feed. Contact our
    support forum for help.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,
      Hmm…not sure what is happening here…there is nothing I did in the updates (not for a least 3 months) that has changed anything related to this issue. The RSS feed looks fine in the array, so something else is going on. What I would try is going into the widget section of your site, choose the RSS widget that comes with wordpress and activate that and put in this feed. If it works there, then it tells me its working with simplepie (which is what really handles the feeds and this is what is causing the problem)…but if the wp rss feed is working then something else is going on.

      • http://www.flickharrison.com/ Flick Harrison

        Hi Allen – thanks for the response. I tried the rss feed plugin in the sidebar and it works fine; oddly, the RSS Multi Importer plugin works fine as a sidebar widget as well! So the only problem is the actual shortcode embed in a page.

        And now it’s doing this odd thing: Not sure what’s changed.

        Warning: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: http:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0 in /nfs/c02/h05/mnt/28150/domains/somethingcollective.ca/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/excerpt_functions.php on line 181

        [repeats several variations of this]

        Then the feed, working fine?! How bizarre. I haven’t changed anything that I know of – neither in my blogs settings or anywhere else… just clicked “edit” on the page and then saved changes (didn’t make any changes, just saved).

        Here’s the page:

        http://somethingcollective.ca/?page_id=665

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Ok…well, that tells me the problem is with your server…the error message indicates it is having problems getting information from server….here is a workaround…first, take off the option to resize the image in the settings options panel…then look at this http://www.allenweiss.com/faqs/warning-getimagesize-function-getimagesize-failed-to-open-stream
          which gives you code to change the image size using css

          Let me know if you have any questions.

          Best wishes,
          Allen

  • Aaron

    I am trying to get the plugin to set a post thumbnail/featured image. I am in the import_posts.php file, but nothing i add into the post array is doing it. Do you have any info as to get this set? this is what i have so far – $post['post_thumbnail'] = Just need to get the proper var to get it to create / pull the image..

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Aaron

      Ok…this is a bit tricky….the image comes from either the content or the enclosure in the feed item…if in the content, it is located in the variable $matches[2] that is in the excerpt_functions.php file (this would need to be globalized for it to work). If it’s in the enclosure, then the variable is $items['myimage']

      let me know if you get this working.

  • sudhir

    Geting this error in fetching
    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 524288 bytes) in/home/coverwmz/public_html/sudhirkalyan.com/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 14403

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi
      How many different RSS feeds are you putting into the admin panel?

      Thanks,
      Allen

  • Nik

    Allen, just discovered a pretty major bug. I’m running version 2.44. Every time the plugin is active it breaks wordpress 3.4.2 custom (postname) permalinks on portfolio items. This has been bugging me for weeks now but finally got around to deactivating all plugins and testing it out properly. This didn’t happen all the time as I’ve had your plugin since day 1 almost but at some point after one of your updates it broke it for me. Just FYI, I’ve not upgraded to the very latest version to figure this out.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Thanks…I’ve seen a conflict between my plugin and that theme before (one other person mentioned this awhile ago)…guess I’ll need to buy the theme to see what is going on.

      • Nik

        Thanks allen. Drop me a note on ichpen@gmail.com so I can give you some details.

      • Nik

        What I mean is send me an email and I can help you fix the plugin with this theme if you prefer. :)

        Nik

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          HI Nik
          Sure, all you have to do is download the plugin from the wordpress site and you’ll have all the code for the plugin. If you can find out what is going on, let me know..you can contact me here for email:
          http://www.allenweiss.com/contact

          Allen

  • gusssss

    hello there . and thank you for the greate plugin that is working very fine .

    the new update added pictures into excerpt . but there is an issue .

    on my theme . any picture url in the post will show in the excerpt view of my theme .

    the picture that is added add through the plugin to posts is actually linked to the orginal site and not the actual picture url

    that makes the picture not appear on my theme excerpt view .

    any helpfull idea on how to fix this or when will the next upate be out ?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,
      Can you give me the url of the feed you are trying to get to work correctly? That’s the only way I can see what is going on.

      Thanks,
      Allen

  • Gabriele

    Hi Allen, i have 4 blogs with the same theme. In
    one of these i use rss importer to show article from the other three.
    The import images of these three is correct for all except for one. I
    don’t know, why? The theme is the same, the rss file is the same…

    If i use [wp_rss_multi_importer dumpthis="1"] as you sugested in other forum i see
    the images of this particular blog too but without images url is
    incorrect, only for one blog.

    Can you help me?

    Thanks

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      You’ll need to give me the rss url for the
      different blogs, letting me know which urls are having the
      problem…otherwise I cannot see what is going on.

      Thanks,

      Allen

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Ok..is this the url of the feed where the images don’t show

    http://www.trendandthecity.it/feed/

    • Gabriele

      Yes the post importer in palcohosting.it/spraymagazine.it from that url don’t show images.
      I wait you instruction, thanks

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        ok…will post the instructions here in a few hours…thanks.

        • Gabriele

          Hi, are you there ? I don’t want create to you some problems, if the operation is complicate i can wait the new version of plugin.

          Give me a sign please and thanks for help.

    • Gabriele

      Yes the post impoted from that url to palcohosting.it/spraymagazine.it don’t show images.

      I wait your instruction thanks.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Ok..I found the problem…I can give you instructions on how to solve this if you want to go in and change the plugin files..or else you can wait until I put up another version with the fix. Let me know.

  • Francis

    Hi there,

    I am an RSS newbie and although I have read the faqs I would really appreciate some help.

    I have one feed working correctly:

    However, all other (validated) feed I enter get the error ‘this feed has errors’. These include:

    http://radioinsight.com/feed/

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/radio/rss

    http://radioinsight.com/feed/

    Please can you let me know what I am doing wrong … it’s driving me a bit bananas!

    BTW, the page is not yet live.

    Cheers,

    F.

  • Francis

    Hi there,

    I am an RSS newbie and although I have read the faqs I would really appreciate some help.

    I have one feed working correctly:

    However, all other (validated) feed I enter get the error ‘this feed has errors’. These include:

    http://radioinsight.com/feed/

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/radio/rss

    http://radioinsight.com/feed/

    Please can you let me know what I am doing wrong … it’s driving me a bit bananas!

    Cheers,

    F.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi
      This is unusual…let me see if I can help figure out what is going on. First, are you getting the message in the admin panel or when you go to the web site and look at the page where you have the shortcode? the admin panel message is set up to quickly see if the feed can be pulled from the server. this will help diagnose what’s going on.

      Also, you’re saying you have one feed that works…can you give me that url?

      Thanks,
      Allen

      • Francis

        Hi Allen,

        I have put a screengrab of the admin panel errors here:

        https://www.dropbox.com/s/vtu44qpbybpb7ie/screengrab%20rss.png

        This will show you the (verified) rss feed addresses I have put in, and the one working URL.

        When I go to the wordpress page, none of the feeds with errors are showing, only the one working feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/radiotoday

        Thanks for any help you can offer.

        Cheers,

        F.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok..let’s try this…modify the shortcode to include a parameter (dumpthis), like this:

          [wp_rss_multi_importer dumpthis="1"]

          then I need to see what is on the page after you do this…this will let me know why you are getting errors.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Also, just so you can see, here is the guardian rss running fine on my production site

          http://www.allenweiss.com/test

          It’s when this happens that I’m led to strongly believe the problem exists with the server your web site is running on (since if it was the plugin, then it wouldn’t work on my production server)..this is why I need to have you use the parameter dumpthis=1 so I can possibly see why your server is rejecting the feed.

          • Francis

            Hi Allen,

            I understand your logic and appreciate your help. For information, I am running the web site on hostgator.

            I added the dumpthis=”1″ and here’s what appeared on the relevant page:

            Feeds
            array(1) { [0]=> array(3) { ["FeedName"]=> string(13) “Radio Insight” ["FeedURL"]=> string(29) “http://radioinsight.com/feed/” ["FeedCatID"]=> string(1) “2″ } } A feed could not be found at http://radioinsight.com/feed/. A feed with an invalid mime type may fall victim to this error, or SimplePie was unable to auto-discover it.. Use force_feed() if you are certain this URL is a real feed.
            Array
            bool(false)

            I hope it makes some sense to you!

            Thanks,

            F.

          • Francis

            and just in case you need it, here’s the multi_importer version:

            Feeds
            array(4) { [0]=> array(3) { ["FeedName"]=> string(11) “Radio Today” ["FeedURL"]=> string(38) “http://feeds.feedburner.com/radiotoday” ["FeedCatID"]=> string(1) “1″ } [1]=> array(3) { ["FeedName"]=> string(14) “Media Guardian” ["FeedURL"]=> string(49) “http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/media/rss” ["FeedCatID"]=> string(1) “1″ } [2]=> array(3) { ["FeedName"]=> string(10) “Radioszene” ["FeedURL"]=> string(29) “http://www.radioszene.de/feed” ["FeedCatID"]=> string(1) “4″ } [3]=> array(3) { ["FeedName"]=> string(13) “Radio Insight” ["FeedURL"]=> string(29) “http://radioinsight.com/feed/” ["FeedCatID"]=> string(1) “2″ } } A feed could not be found at http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/media/rss. A feed with an invalid mime type may fall victim to this error, or SimplePie was unable to auto-discover it.. Use force_feed() if you are certain this URL is a real feed.A feed could not be found at http://www.radioszene.de/feed. A feed with an invalid mime type may fall victim to this error, or SimplePie was unable to auto-discover it.. Use force_feed() if you are certain this URL is a real feed.A feed could not be found at http://radioinsight.com/feed/. A feed with an invalid mime type may fall victim to this error, or SimplePie was unable to auto-discover it.. Use force_feed() if you are certain this URL is a real feed.
            Array

            Cheers,

            F.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            also, to test my theory, I’m taking take out a 1 month trial of hostgator to see if the problem is on their servers..I’ll let you know if I run into the same problem you have and if so, if I can solve it.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi Francis

            Ok..I’m at a loss. I took out an account on Host Gator, downloaded wordpress and my plugin, put in 2 feeds you’re having problems with and this is what happens:

            http://wprssimporter.com/

            Assuming the site is up and running, you’ll see the feeds coming in fine..I get no errors in the admin section (now, the feed http://www.radioszene.de/feed does not work because it’s a badly formed feed…you can see that by going here

            http://validator.w3.org/appc/

            and putting in that RSS url (it will be validated).

            So, the only thing I can imagine that is happening is that there is a plugin conflict (some other plugin you have is conflicting with my plugin).

            Let me know if you have any questions.

            Best wishes,
            Allen

          • Francis

            Allen,

            Thank you so much for the work you have put in to this.

            You have certainly helped to narrow down the options. I will experiment with plugins at a quiet time to see if I can identify a conflict. If I do then I will let you know, as it may be relevant to other users.

            Thanks again,

            F.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..here is the problem..as you can see I can run this RSS fine on my site, as seen here:
            http://www.allenweiss.com/radio-test

            the error message you are getting is typical of error message I’ve seen ONLY from sites that run on hostgator..so my assumption is that hostgator is the culprit and is likely running php curl that is out of date or something.
            I’m not sure what else to say. I run my sites on blue host which is a high quality web site.

  • Ante

    Hi Allen, first of all, thank you for this plugin! Tho one question, what is the easiest way adding a default/failback thumbnail to feeds with no image?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello.
      Not sure I’m understanding this…typically a thumbnail is an image..so I’m unclear what you’re asking.

      • Ante

        I mean; I want every article on a feed I import to have a thumbnail, but the source article does not necessarily always have an image. I want to have a “default thumbnail” from my server to be shown, if the source article (part of the feed) does not have one. I hope I now properly described my desired function. :)

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi,
          Ok..now that makes sense. In principle, this is possible..let me think about this (it would require the user to specify where the default image is stored).

          Thanks,
          Allen

          • Ante

            Thank you sir! If you have a quick fix without any gui, thats ok. I can edit the source if you just point me to the right direction. I’v done this with simplepie long time ago. This would perhaps be a good feature to include in the future releases.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            if you know php you can go into the the inc/excerpt_functions.php file and you’ll find all the code there that searches for the image, resizes it, etc. Just change that so that if there is no image to place your default there.

  • Norm

    Hi Allen. In Feed to Post would it be possible to add an option that enables me to select which account the feed gets posted to? This would really help because I wish to define a seperate profile for the feed – distinct from the main admin (to which the current feed to post is being assigned)?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      You mean which blog category it gets assigned to (since the feed to post puts the feed items into blog posts and these can be associated with different categories)….if that’s what you mean, that functionality already exists.

      • Norm

        Actually I mean user account, if it’s at all possible. I already have the post assigned to categories and that works well. When the feed gets assigned to a post (by using Feed to Post) the post seems to be associated with its own user profile.

        • Norm

          I have just started using the following plugin:

          WP Biographia v3.3.0 on my site http://www.cathlick.com

          • Norm

            I’m not sure what happened but my home page is now not displaying the main column with all the feed to posts. All I see is the side column. Do you have any idea what is causing this? http://www.cathlick.com/

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            no, I don’t…if you have the short code on the page, then do this [wp_rss_multi_importer dumpthis="1"] which will output an array with whatever is or isn’t in the feeds..then post here so I can see what is showing.

          • Norm

            I pasted that short code. Thanks.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            well, the array looks fine…not sure what would be causing this since it obviously shows the short code is working…take out the dumpthis and see if it works now.

          • Norman

            Strange. Still not working.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            well, here is what i would do. I would add another page and put the short code there and see if it’s working on the new page. Unless you just installed another plugin that is now interfering with my plugin, then the only possible cause would something to do with the page……if that doesn’t work I would deactivate the plugin and then activate it again and see if that helps.

          • Norm

            I resolved this issue. Turned out that all it was was that the home page had somehow been set back to a static page (not site updates).

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Glad to hear you have this workiing….if the plugin is working for you, please spend a second and rate my plugin by going to
            http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

            It helps other people know whether they should try it or not.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok…that would mean having the id number of the user..that would require a major rewrite of the feed to post program…frankly not something I can do in the near future.

  • http://twitter.com/cashgains Indusekar S.K.

    This plugin is useful. But I find if a title can be given to it before displaying the fetched rss feeds inside the bottom of a blog post

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      well, if you want you could simply paste the shortcode that brings in the feed items that you want and place it below the blog post.

      • http://twitter.com/cashgains Indusekar S.K.

        Thanks, I am able to do that. But my question is different. Can I include a title before the shortcode brings in the feed items. For My Blog Post blah,..blah..blah… {TITLE FOR FEED BEFORE SHORTCODE} Then feed items bullet list. I can do the title manually. I want to find out if your plugin itself can do that by placing a field in the template or something like that.

        • http://www.facebook.com/s.k.indusekar Indusekar SK

          Hi Allen, I am awaiting your reply for including a Title for rss feeds

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            How about this?

            Here is my title that identifies the feed below

            [wp_rss_multi_importer category="1"]

  • http://twitter.com/cashgains Indusekar S.K.

    for example it is showing in a simple bullet template as under:

    {THIS IS THE BLOG POST}
    Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

    {THIS IS THE RSS FEEDS FETCHED AND PASTED INSIDE THE BLOG POST}
    {HEADING HERE LIKE MORE RELATED POSTS} will be welcome.
    Stoptober quit smoking campaign backed by thousands – Hartlepool Mail Fri, Nov 09, 2012

    Researchers: To Quit Smoking, Gargle Lemonade – KYW Newsradio Fri, Nov 09, 2012

    52% tried to stop smoking, CDC says – NWAOnline (subscription) Fri, Nov 09, 2012

    Help low-income smokers quit: doctors – CBC.ca Fri, Nov 09, 2012

    Gargling lemonade may help smokers quit – Death and Taxes Thu, Nov 08, 2012

  • http://twitter.com/TonyJWriter Tony Johns

    Do you foresee allowing a few more options for the feed posts, say being able to schedule a daily or weekly summary of registered feeds instead of doing it hourly?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Tony

      I think I can provide that option…need to think about how best to implement this…thanks for the suggestion.

      Allen

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Tony…I have a beta version of this…interested in trying it out?

      • http://racingpress.com/ Tony Johns

        If it’s mostly stable, sure!

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Tony,
          Ok..can you contact me through contact page on this site and I’ll send you a couple of files to change…yes, it’s very stable.
          Allen

  • http://www.facebook.com/s.k.indusekar Indusekar SK

    The shortcode for posting is [wp_rss_multi_importer] if there is only one feed. If I have another feed with different source then what should be the shortcode.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Set up categories in the category panel. The assign the feeds to the a category. The add a category parameter to the shortcode to pull that one feed (or all feeds associated with that category).

      • http://www.facebook.com/s.k.indusekar Indusekar SK

        thanks

  • Norm

    Hi Allen. This plugin is working like a charm for me, thanks! A small thing (well, I hope it’s a small thing) – I am currently building a hub in WordPress where the success depends largely on the speed I get the news out from a large amount of content partners whose RSS feeds I publish. I am using a similar plugin to yours on a Joomla site and the nice thing is that it pulls RSS content every 7 minutes. In my new Worpress site I would really like to be able to fetch up to 100 posts (ideally) every 10 minutes. I am dividing these between a growing number of categories. An hourly fetch of 20 posts means that some others will beat me by up to an hour in publishing. Would you consider adding this to the next update? Thanks again.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Norm
      If you want, I can send you two files to replace on your site that will give you the option for 100 posts every 10 minutes (assuming there is 100 posts available). This is not available in the current plugin, but close to what I’ve been planning anyway. let me know if you’re will to give it a try.

      • Norm

        That would be great. I would love to give it a try. Please email it to metanoia@icon.co.za

  • Andy

    Hi Allen, great plugin! One question: I use a RSS feed with pics and those have included links to another site. When I import the feed, the pic is here, but not the link. Can I cahnge it or can you to it in the next update? Thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Andy
      Can you give me the RSS url so I can see what might be going on?

      Thanks,
      Allen

  • Mad Dog

    Hi–
    I just installed this and it’s great! I understand how I can set up categories so I can have different feeds on different pages, but what I need is to have them have different template settings. On the Opening Page I want 4 stripped down excerpts, but on a page inside I want all the latest feeds in their entirety. Can I do this?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,
      I can make this happen but won’t be able to send you the file until tomorrow evening. It will require a change until I update the plugin but I can get you something to work right away.

      Allen

      • Mad Dog

        If you can do that it would be great. To make sure I was clear, it would be like having two very separate instances with two shortcodes, each with its own feed and own properties. That would rock!

        (I’m also thinking about “hacking” it to make an even shorter excerpt. too bad that’s not completely variable instead of a select.)

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi,
          Can you email me at the contact place on this site, and I’ll email you a replacement file that should make this work.

          Allen

  • Tony

    Hi Allen, great job on this plugin! Is there a way that when using the “feed to post” option that the images on the feed can be automatically set as featured images for the article? Not sure if keywords or tags are present in the RSS feeds, but that would be awesome if it could populate wordpress tags based off the feed articles as well. Also, I can’t seem to get the articles to populate into the wordpress category I specify, they all end up in “uncatagorized” even after setting the options through the plugin. Just for reference, you can check out the dev site I’m trying this out on at theawakenedones.variantweb[dot]com. Any help you could give me would be great, I’m going to play around with the plugin as well and if I can get any of the above to work, I’ll let you know so you can try it out and see if it’s something you’d like to do for the next revision. Thanks, Tony

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Tony,
      as it turns out, at this point, as much as I’d like, WordPress doesn’t have an obvious way to use code to get the image into the featured image position in the blog post..although I’m looking into a possible workaround.

      As for the uncategorized issue, this will happen if you either a) haven’t identified via an ID number which category to put the post into, or if the ID is incorrect…the fallback is just to uncategorize it. So, the first step is to verify the ID number is correct.

  • Gabriele

    Hi Allen, i have another problem with my rss- multi importer. If you see this link http://www.palcohosting.it/spraymagazine.it you can see under BLOG ROLL the feed that i import from my other blogs . Actualy the second feed don’t show title and image, i think that this problem is create beacause the image of that post not is on my server but it is exsternal ( maybe i wrong ). Can you help me?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Gariele
      Are you sure there is an image with that specific post…the only way to tell is look at the RSS feed and see..if you can post that here I can verify.
      Allen

      • Gabriele

        Yes, you can verify the url here http://www.lifeandthecity.it/timberland-earthkeepers-on-the-road-storie-di-gente-fuori-e-di-vite-sostenibili/ image and title of this post don’t show on my rss multy import and only difference is that the image is hosted on other server.So, you can verify all clicking on the link up. Thanks for help .

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          right..but I need the RSS feed, not the article, to see if they put the image in the RSS feed..if not, my plugin won’t find it..does that make sense?

          • Gabriele

            http://www.lifeandthecity.it/feed/ this is the link to my feeds of my blog, i don’t insert image in the feed page but normaly the plugin exstract the images . I ‘don’t know why the problem is only on one post.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..I’ll look into this and get back to you (here) when I find out what’s going on.

          • Gabriele

            Thanks for help, i think that, in my case, i need an exception on the url of image. If the domain of the url is http://stat.ebuzzing.com the plugin must select the second image and not the first.

            Thanks for help i wait here your solution between today and tomorrow.

            Thanks

          • Gabriele

            Allen do you have some news for my problem ?

            thanks

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi…yes, I do..it will be available in the next update..but if you want, send me an email (using the contact form on this site) and I’ll send you fix right now.

          • Gabriele

            Ok, i have find the problem thanks firebug. This particular post have the first image that point to an image very small because the post is create with ebuzzing. I think that i must create an exception for this particular url, where i can manipulate the image url in your plugin? I need to write into script a similar thing :

            if( url_image == http://stat.ebuzzing.com/stats/……..){echo second-image;}

            else{ echo first-image;}

            Can you help me? ( I know that is a complicate thing )

            Thanks for help

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            right…what they are doing it putting a tracking bug into the post. I think I have a solution for this, but will need to work on this later today

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            send me an email through the contact page on this site and I’ll send you another file to see if this helps..I won’t be able to send this for a few hours.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi Gabriele
            I have a fix for this..please send me email to via the contact page above and I’ll send you the file to make the change.

            Allen

  • ookeel

    hey allen,

    is there a number of feeds limit for the plugin ….

    can i add 1000 feeds or more …

    what would performance like …

    thanx

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,
      It turns out this requires a lot more memory than my plugin can handle…it would work if you are able to increase the memory on your server.

      Allen

      • ookeel

        allen,

        i understand but is there a limit …

        thanx

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          technically, there is no limit…the plugin can handle any number of feeds and categories…its because of a memory leak in simplepie that causes the problem that requires more memory…this can be done by simply adding code to the config file on your wordpress installation.

          Now, in principle there are other plugins that don’t run into this but they store all the feed data in the database, which I don’t – mainly because many users want the feed to show quickly on their site (like news) rather than get updated every hour or more, as in a cron program.

          • ookeel

            ok,

            what about limits on time …

            how far back in time will stories go …
            will it be days, weeks, months, years …

            how can this be controlled …
            thanx

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            That all depends on the feed. Some feeds only go back a few hours and others longer. If you’re looking to control this then my guess is my plugin won’t work for you.

          • ookeel

            you mean to say that earlier stories cannot be limited to 3 days back for example no matter the feed …

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            right..not currently with my plugin…there is no setting (at least not now) to restrict the feeds for a certain number of days back….this isn’t hard to do but hasn’t been coded in since nobody, until now, has asked for it.

          • ookeel

            hey allen,

            when’s the next update …
            just kidding …

            by the way …
            have you ever attempted writing a twitter type stream …

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            yeah..I’ve worked with twitter and facebook streams (json type stuff)

          • ookeel

            is json the way to go rather than rss …
            how far along have your json efforts gone …

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            not that far…basically I do programming on a very, very, part time basis as I’m really doing other things (see the about page on this site). I know how to parse json data, but rss feeds dominate the web and that’s what the plugin does..if it did json data, then I’d have maybe 20 people (rather that 21k) have downloaded the plugin.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi…thanks..not seeing what you’re identifying as hiccup on the page item..if I can see a problem, then I can maybe fix it.

          • ookeel

            click menu item sample news feed …

            then click next page (page 1) …
            you should experience a delay (the hiccup) …

            then next page click to page 2 …
            you should experience no delay …

            then next page click to page 3 …
            you should once again experience a delay …

            this should not be happening …
            should it …

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..this is what I see

            http://screencast.com/t/XtBJn6oHWp2O

            If you’re saying there should be no delay, then you’re referring to an ajax solution (which my plugin isn’t doing) or that the feed is stored in the database for fast retrieval (again, which mine isn’t doing)…now, if you turn on caching in the admin panel, that will store the results in the database for a certain amount of time that will improve performance…if not, then each time to click for the next page, you are literally going out an fetching the rss feeds.

          • ookeel

            the screencast is from the blog item …
            yes there is no delay with a blog item …

            but i also have this plugin working on a page item (see menu item news feed/sample page)
            and there is a delay …
            have you tried it …

            also i have not turned on the caching …

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss
          • ookeel

            yes that’s it …

            so why …
            why this difference in blog vs page performance …

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            to me they look like they are both on pages…not blog posts

          • ookeel

            they are similar but each screencast is different …

            one is a blog post …
            one comes from a page …

            got any ideas …

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            I have no idea…blog post and pages are rendered differently in wordpress so it’s likely a wordpress thing

          • ookeel

            that’s what i suspect …
            i’ve seen this with another rss feed plugin …
            anywho thanx …

  • Noku

    Hi Allen, Thank you for the very useful plugin. I have a question about, but for privacy i need to tell you in private. can i send you a PM please? Thank you

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      you can send an email through the contact form (see above) on this web site.

  • Scotty

    Hi,

    The ‘Add Another Category’ link under Feed to Post Options is not working for me.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi

      ok..let me know if the same problem occurs if you try to add another category in the category options tab or another feed in the RSS Feeds tab..that would help me narrow down a potential problem.

      Allen

  • Jonathan Ratliff

    How do I increase the memory so that it loads faster?

    I really like the plugin but it makes my site load like cold syrup when I use the ‘clean separated’ template in my side bar.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Jonanathan
      How many different RSS feeds are you using in the plugin?

      Allen

  • Eric

    Great Plugin. The only issue I am having is I am using it to send Feeds to Posts and it adds the Facebook and Twitter buttons even when they are not selected. I would prefer to get rid of them if possible as I use other share buttons. Any help is greatly appreciated.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Eric
      Let me make sure of this….see attached…you’re saying this is unchecked on the Feed to Post panel.

      • Eric

        Yes. I even went into the import_posts.php and removed the showsocial option thinking that might do it, but they still show up.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok…now are you sure this is not coming from the feed itself (many feeds inject social icons in their feeds). Maybe you could give me an example of a feed you’re using and I’ll see if I can reproduce the problem on my servers.

          • Eric

            To me they don’t appear they would be coming from the feed, but I have attached a screen print so you can see the buttons

            Also here are a few feeds it seems to do it on all

            http://www.joystiq.com/wii/rss.xml
            http://feeds.feedburner.com/psblog
            http://feeds.ign.com/ign/pc-reviews

            Thank you for your time

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..well, from the screen print I can easily see that is not the social icons from my script since the screen shot shows a counter for Twitter and Facebook and the social icons I put in do not have this. My guess is that this comes from your wordpress theme or a setting wordpress. Also, I put those feeds into my system and they don’t show up with social icons. I would start by checking other plugins you are using and my theme settings.

          • Eric

            Thank You for pointing me in the right direction. Still couldn’t find what was calling it but was able to hide it so I’m happy. One more question is it a setting in the plugin that schedules the post when it is set to publish? If so is there a way to change it cause as it is now it schedules it out like 6 hours I would prefer it to be automatic.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            right now, there is a cron scheduler that brings in the feeds every hour automatically (that works as long as your wordpress installation allows the cron to work). On the upcoming version you’ll be able to set that to more options (e.g., daily, weekly, etc.). What I’ve seen happen, however, is that some people see new posts less often but that is usually because the source of the feeds aren’t updated very often..so if there is no new feed items, the plugin won’t bring in anything.

      • Eric

        Yes it is unchecked

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          right..so can you give me an example of the RSS feed that you are using that has this problem?

  • Jeremy

    When I click the “Click to Fetch Feeds Button”, I get the following message: “Warning: file_get_contents(http:) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hermes/bosweb/web163/b1637/ipg.envisasearchcom/envisamerica/wp-includes/class-feed.phpon line 88″ I have disabled ALL other plugins and still get this message. If I click the [function.file-get-contents]: link in the error message, I get a *404 error page. I believe that I am running the latest version of your plugin and wordpress, RSS Multi Importer V.2.47 and WordPress V.3.4.2

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss
      • Jeremy

        Per the FAQs page, I sent you the “garbage”. This was created using test feeds that I had not planned on using. I switched those out with just a couple of the feeds of many more I plan on using, but I am still getting that message. FYI

        • Jeremy

          After using a process of elimination, it turns out that it is some of the feeds. I have about 50 feeds I wish to use. Is there some way to use the feed and avoid the error message?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi Jeremy..I can look into this…the problem is the error is being called outside of my plugin (by simplepie, that handles the actually getting of the feed…and it is choking on some of your feeds which is causing the error) I’ll need to see if there is a way to trap for that and then go around the error.

  • Jeremy

    I was using the Feed to Post Option and discovered that they weren’t posting to the wordpress|theme categories I set them to (using the plugin category to blog category). Upon further examination I discovered that it was posting, sort of. They are scheduling to post in the future to those categories instead of immediately posting. My “Default status of posts” is “PUBLISH.” Is there any reason it is scheduling the publish in the future (all cases so far are same day just hours later)? How to I get it to immediate publish?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Jeremy
      In the next update this will be fixed. What’s happening is that some feeds are likely on a different time zone and/or the date and time they use is GMT..so when they come in the date and time is in the future, so that means WordPress will put them in future scheduling mode. In the next update, you’ll have the option to over-ride this by putting in the same time as the when it gets fetched. I’m not sure when the next update will happen so if you want an advanced copy of this, let me know by contacting me through this web site.

  • http://www.facebook.com/john.el.hobson John Hobson

    I have a feed which is validated but gives “There is a problem with the feeds you entered. Go to our support page and we’ll help you diagnose the problem.” the feed is http://stopfyldefracking.org.uk/feed/ .It works fine , does not throw any error in the feed set up page but does not work (Although I am sure I DID get something from it when I was first setting this up a couple of hours ago!) I have a few other feeds working just fine.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi John,

      The best way for me to see what’s going on is to have you put this parameter in the shortcode (dumpthis=”1″), as in

      [wp_rss_multi_importer dumpthis="1"], with a category parameter if you have one. then either send me what comes out on the page or email me a link to the page so I can see.

      Thanks,
      Allen

  • Vincent Mercier

    Hello Allen,

    Your plugin work very well, but I have a problem with quotes. My feeds are generated as a Post and sometimes when your script meet a double quote, it doesn’t import all the text on the Post. You can see an example on the pictures. What should I do to resolve this problem?

    Thank you for your help

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Vincent…can you give me the RSS url that shows this problem…that way I can reproduce the problem and come up with a solution.
      Thanks,
      Allen

  • shahid

    Hi lien my feed is not working please check my feed is > http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/4D1F0E288C8534D9

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      the problem is there is nothing in the feed…just check it out..it looks like this:

  • kapil

    hi, very nice plugin but their is a bug in your new version…

    Warning: Illegal string offset ‘feedslug’ in D:xampphtdocscoolgurujiwp-contentpluginswp-rss-multi-importerincrss_feed.php on line 21
    this bug is showing on frontend and backend…i am using it on wp multisite…
    try to fix it….

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Thanks…by the way, when did you download this since the most recent version of that file has line 21 commented out…since you’re running this on xampp maybe you have a setting that is looking at comments as an offset or something…anyway, delete the commented line and the error should go away.

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Hi Vincent..no, please send it through the contact form on this web site since sometimes disqus isn’t working very well.

  • TreborD

    Hello Allen,

    Thanks for a very useful plugin, and (in advance) for your excellent support! I’m using the “default” theme, which I like because of its simplicity and its ability to take advantage of the backend Settings Options. However, I’m trying to change the headline color (and then its :visited color), but am having no luck. I’m in /wp-rss-multi-importer/templates/templates.css, and by adding a “color:#…” to “div.rss-output ” I can change the color of the date and source, but the title is unchanged. It seemed logical that if I were to add “div.rss-output .title { color:#…; }”, that’d do the trick, but no luck, even with an !important included. Obviously div.title is getting its styling from elsewhere (presumably my global settings), but how can I override? I saw on one of your youtube videos how you altered the title for the “regular” template (using the same stylesheet) but it’s not working for me with “default”… Thanks again for your help!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello..ok..let me see if I can change the title color and I’ll send you a movie of how to do this or just tell you here.

      • TreborD

        Hi Allen, Thanks for your fast reply! (Faster than my reply-reply!) I gave your solution a shot . . . it was one that I had not tried . . . but it did not work :( Tried with other CSS properties, too – no cigar. Any other ideas? Might I try renaming the element in the php, perhaps? (If so, where might I find it?)

        Thanks again!

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Ok. Send me a link to your site where the problem is and Ill send you the way to make this work.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Ok…try this:

      div.rss-output a{
      color: black; // or whatever

      }

  • Jens Bender

    Hi – we have integrated your great plugin and first it worked great. Now it gives me an error message for the reading of this RSS feed (http://www.social-business-blog.de/feed/). Before it worked. Can you tell me whether there is a problem with the plugin or with the feed? Thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Well, first of all, that feed is providing an error (the feed itself has a problem, not the plugin)…you can see what I see when I tried to simply view the feed.

      • Jens Bender

        Thanks Allen. It was indeed a problem in the feed. I tried loading the feed directly and for me it worked (was probably in the cache). Thanks a lot – now everything is working!

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Hi All…I just updated the plugin to 2.5 and incorporated most of the features and bug fixes that were asked here…thanks to all.

  • Joshua Metzelaar

    Thank you allen for fixing that error we were having on Mac computers. It also appeared on the Windows 8 Chrome, oddly enough. Seems to be fixed after I installed the latest update.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Thanks…let me know if you run into any other problems…and also, if you haven’t had a chance, please rate the plugin by going to
      http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

      It helps other people know whether they should try it or not.

  • SD

    Allen – love the plugin. two things: the google news feed shows the title twice. Anyway to delete the second title that isn’t hyperlinked? Also, any way to delete “Continue reading at the source” since this link is redundant?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,
      Can you send me the RSS URL you’re using that shows the title twice? This happens sometimes because they put some timing code in the querystring and I can get around that if I see it.

      I’ll make the Continue reading…etc, optional…let’s handle the double entries first, though.

  • Micheal

    Hi Allen,

    The plugin works great accept it is now slowing my site down. I tried deactivating all other plugin but it seems this plugin seems to use the highest resources. The last choice was to deactivate it and delete it, but it doesn’t seems to work, the plugin won’t allow me to deactivate or uninstall. I tried deactivating it, but it’s still active, and when I try deleting it, it said “You cannot delete a plugin while it is active on the main site.”. Could you please help to look into this?
    Thanks & appreciate this

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Michael…I’m not sure what is going on…can you ftp to your server and simply delete the plugin? There is nothing in the plugin code that would keep it from being deactivated..unless there is something going on with your server that is causing the problem. I’d ftp to the site, and delete the plugin…can you do that?

  • http://www.facebook.com/pcwchung Peter Cheng

    Hi,
    Cannot show this Google news feeds (in Chinese). Please help, thanks.
    https://news.google.com/news/feeds?hl=zh-TW&gl=hk&q=%E5%89%8D%E5%88%97%E8%85%BA&um=1&ie=UTF-8&output=rss

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello Peter…I think the problem is that the RSS reader cannot process chinese characters in the url… perhaps there is another way to get this url with non chinese characters…I’ll need to look into whether this is this real problem and get back to you.

  • http://twitter.com/FarmgirlGourmet Heather Scholten

    Hi Allen, I am loving this plugin! One question I have is whether its possible to add the sources Name after or before the Post Title? Such as “Lemon Bars by/via/from Farmgirl Gourmet” instead of just “Lemon Bars”. My feed has many different blogs and it would be great if my readers could differentiate them via the post titles. I looked around the plugin to find this option but was not successful. Thank you!!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Heather….this can be done…first, I need to know which template you’re using. And also exactly how you want the title to look, like:

      Title from Source

      Also the source name is the same name as you give to the feed when you add it.

      Allen

      • http://twitter.com/FarmgirlGourmet Heather Scholten

        I am using Clean Separated. My source name is Fave Foodies and incorporates over 30 different food blogs. My hope was that as the Post Titles are pulled in to the feed that the authors name/blog title would also show in the heading. See the example from Google Reader. Otherwise it’s just a list of post titles and my readers won’t know who they are from. I’d like to give attribution.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok…I can either send you another template, or tell you how to change you current template (in either case you’ll need to save the template using the template options tab so it doesn’t get overwritten when I do an update. If you want, contact me using the form on this web site and I’ll send you the changes (either the code or the whole file).

          • http://twitter.com/FarmgirlGourmet Heather Scholten

            Wonderful! Thank you for the lightning response. I totally dig this plugin and will definitely be singing your praises.

          • http://twitter.com/FarmgirlGourmet Heather Scholten

            whichever is easiest for you. Code or whole file.

  • Koen Slagter

    Hi Allen, 



    First of all I want to thank you for your great plugin. Had a feed to post running in just a few moments, excellent plugin!



    Only got a little question, I’ve set up a feed to post from http://www.newfish.nl/feed to http://m.newfish.nl/nieuws.
    
now, as you can see there’s no styling in the posts on http://m.newfish.nl/nieuws.


    For example, I imported this post: http://newfish.nl/nieuwsbericht/layar/, and it turned out as this: http://m.newfish.nl/layar/.

    

Because this way it would be hard to read for my visitors, I’d like to know if there is a way I could import all headings and other stylings.


    thanks in advance,
    Koen Slagter

  • shanonline

    new RSS import is crashed wheni add 2 feeds

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi…the only way I can help is to get the 2 feed urls you are using…post them here.

  • Ashley

    It would be very helpful if I could get a list of the parameters I can use with the shortcode. I want to override some of the widget settings, by using the ‘do_the shortcode’ in my php template. Ex. I’d like to hide the category titles and also be able to limit the number of posts if I’m pulling in multiple categories. (thisfeed=” only works for 1 category) Thank you!! :)

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Thanks..well, there is a full list of parameters in the admin section under the tab called Shortcode Parameters…you can use all the parameters using do_shortcode(‘[wp_rss_multi_importer ]‘); by just including parameters in the shortcode. If you don’t want the category titles just unclick that option the Settings Panel. Thisfeed works at the level of the category (so if you want it for only 1 feed, then, at least now, you have to assign that one feed to its own category.

  • Anonymous

    Post author is not set. Should be able to pick a default user in post to feed options.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      You mean who wrote the post in the feed? That will be available in the next update.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      I have the files to make the a default user..if you email me using the contact form on this site, I can send them to you.

    • http://www.facebook.com/scottjar Scott Jarvis

      Please add the option to assign an author/user to each feed added… Thanks!

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Hi Scott…if you contact me using the contact form on this site, I can send you the files to have this work right now (beta)…otherwise it will be available in the next update.

  • Ionut

    Which is the maximum number of feeds that the plugin support it? Thank you for your great plugin!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,
      That depends…if you’re going to put these feeds into separate categories such that at any time you’re pulling say 30 or so at the same time, this should work. Because the plugin uses simplepie (which has a memory leak) and I’m not storing the feeds in the database (except in cache memory if you choose for a specified time), you can run into a memory problem (which can be handled by increasing the memory for your wordpress site).

      Not sure how much this helps, because it so much depends on the other plugins you’re using, the installation, the memory, etc.

  • Emma Pooka

    Hi – The plugin’s really great! It’s very useful for the blog fiction I’m writing, as I can aggregate all the character blogs onto the main project site so that they can all be read together, in order. I wonder if you could help me do something a bit tricky – at the moment I’ve turned the date display off, as the blogs are set in the future and I don’t want the year 2012 showing up. However, I would like to show the dates. Is there some way I could change the date display to show the year 2026? I do it on the blogs themselves by changing the “y” in the date display option to “2026″. Is there some way to do that in your plugin as a shortcode?
    Many thanks,
    Emma

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Sure. You can do this. Ill post here how to do this in a few hours.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      ok…sent you a direct message about how to do this..let me know if it works or not.

      • Emma Pooka

        Thanks, that worked perfectly!

  • Michael

    Hello, can you set the image that appears in articles at the top left be set as a featured image also the feeds on 3 categories for me

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello…at this point, the plugin doesn’t have the capability to take the image and make it a featured image…that may be available in the next update.

      • michael

        do you have any idea what is up with the other bit here is screen shots is i have 12 categories set up and the rss poster only posts in 3 of them

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          I don’t see the screen shot but likely this is because you have the number of total posts per fetch not large enough relative to the number of entries per feed to fetch.

          • Micahel

            it will be that i have 226 feeds is there a way to put multiple feeds into one but at the end of the title have the source eg News Story (Newswebsite) ?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            if you know how to edit the php code, you can certainly do that. You would need to take this line

            $post['post_title'] = trim($items["mytitle"]);

            and change it to this:

            $post['post_title'] = trim($items["mytitle"]).’ ‘.$items["mygroup"];

  • http://www.facebook.com/daniellevis.keltner Daniel Levis Keltner

    Hi Allen! First off, this plugin is a dream come true. It does everything and very easy to work with. Second, I’m failing at styling a template and was wondering if you could offer any advice. I’m using the date_above template and correctly changed the date pattern. But, to conserve as much page room as possible, I’d love it if I could place the date on the same line as the title, title flush left and date flush right. I’d love to keep them styled just as they are, too; title a link, date just regular black text. My .php coding knowledge is limited, so though I see the elements in the template, not sure what to add or move without jacking the whole template up, ha. Anyhoo, any advice would be appreciated!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Sure. This is possible. I’ll get back to you with a solution in a few hours.

      • http://www.facebook.com/daniellevis.keltner Daniel Levis Keltner

        Thanks!

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok..how about you contact me using the contact form on this site and I’ll see if I can give you a new template to try out.

          • http://www.facebook.com/daniellevis.keltner Daniel Levis Keltner

            Okay, email sent!

  • Rhuspharm

    Hi. Even though i’ve set “Feed Source Attribution Label” as “No attribution”, every post that is imported has “Source: the blog” written under it.

    Is that a bug , or can I turn it off somewhere else? (it’s my own blog that is being imported and it’s confusing to have a link to a blog that is essentially a replica)

    • Rhuspharm

      (clarification: using feed to post )

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        The settings for Feed to Post are handled in the Feed to Post panel (not the Settings panel…this will be made more clear in the next update). I’ll make this an option to turn this off in the next update which should be released this week.

        • Rhuspharm

          Wow, thanks for the amazingly fast reply. Great plugin btw!

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Thanks..also, if you want to get rid of the source right now (until I launch the update which will have this as an option), go into the /inc/import_posts.php file and delete the line that has the word Source in it (I’d put the code here but disqus messes it up.

            That will get rid of the source.

  • microna

    How to remove this [...] on “regular.php” template

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      If you look under the shortcode parameter tab you can see morestyle as the parameter to use…so do this:

      [wp_rss_multi_importer morestyle=""]

      that will make [...] go away.

  • dbossjp

    Hi, is it possible to display less than 6 articles on the page?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      yes..do you know how to edit the plugin files..if so, I can tell you have to add another option for this.

  • Fredric

    Hi,

    Is it possebly to have about the 20 latest feeds form one source, not just a category in a page/post? Shortcode?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      I would put the feed I want into a category, get the category ID number (say, it’s 5) and then use this shortcode

      [wp_rss_multi_importer category="5" thisfeed="20"]

      You will get 20 articles, but only if the feed actually has 20 articles there (I’ve had various people email me and say this doesn’t work, but everytime it’s because the feed isn’t providing enough articles)…so make sure the feed has the articles and then the plugin will work as it should.

      • Fredric

        Thanks,

        But i would like to have both categories and sources. Like this: [wp_rss_multi_importer source="5" thisfeed="20"] and [wp_rss_multi_importer category="7" thisfeed="20"]. But this maybe too much data to cache?

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Then set the parameter for the category in one shortcode to be category=”5,7″

  • http://twitter.com/APBeginning A Perfect Beginning

    Wonderful plugin, Allen! I do however have this on activation: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare footer_scripts() (previously
    declared in
    /home/mysite/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/mytheme/includes/theme-enqueue.php:26)
    in /home/mysite/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/scripts.php on line 109. I reckon this is due to my theme having its own (and separate) theme enqueue file. I’m sure it’s as simple as adding the appropriate line to my separate file? Thanks, Allen

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi,

      right…I would first try renaming the enqueue script in the /inc folder for my plugin. I would change this

      wp_enqueue_script( ‘showexcerpt’, plugins_url(‘scripts/show-excerpt.js’, dirname(__FILE__)) );

      to, say

      wp_enqueue_script( ‘showexcerpt2′, plugins_url(‘scripts/show-excerpt.js’, dirname(__FILE__)) );

      the way I’m calling the scripts doesn’t (if I recall) rely on the name, so changing this should avoid the conflict and work ok…let me know if it doesn’t or you need me to send the file.

      Thanks,
      Allen

  • gus

    how to back data , add data to other wordpress blog

  • ohryan

    I’d like to see an option to disable strip_tags altogether, or in a more intelligent manner. Stripping s for example, often makes imported posts much harder to read.

    It’d also be awesome if your code follow WordPress’ Coding Standard.

    Thanks for the great plugin.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello….maybe you can be a bit more precise in how my plugin isn’t following WordPress Coding Standards…that would be helpful.

      • ohryan

        I am referring to this document: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards

        Without going through the code line-by-line a couple of things that stood out and made the code especially hard to read for me were:

        - indentation is all over the place.
        - camalCase naming (always use underscores)
        - poor brace style
        - poor space usage

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          right…I guess if my job was a coder (rather than what my real job is) I’d spend the time doing what this document says. Since I’m not getting paid a penny for this plugin, I guess my main thing is making it work rather than making the code pretty to read. If my main job and what I got paid for was a coder and my job was also to pass along the code to others, then I totally agree my code is hard to read. I guess these are the simple tradeoffs.

          Anyway, thanks for pointing this out.

          • ohryan

            Not to belabour the point, as I do think it’s of minor importance like you said. But… I’d argue that making your code more readable will decrease the amount of time you spend on maintenance in the future and does not make the code any more difficult or time consuming to write. I’d suggest, the next time you update the code, take a moment to clean up the functions you’re working on.

            “…and my job was also to pass along the code to others, then I totally agree my code is hard to read.”

            IMHO, when you are open sourcing your code and placing it in the plugin directory, I believe you have a responsibility to the community to make the code as extensible as possible, which includes making it easy to read.

            “I’m not getting paid a penny for this plugin”

            I don’t see a link in the plugin or on your page to drop you a donation. I’d be happy to send you some money in exchange for the time you’ve saved me.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi..money isn’t necessary, but a nice rating on the wordpress site would be great.

            http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

            It helps other people know whether they should try it or not.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            wow, a 4 rating before you asked for a feature that I’ll be providing…that’s demotivating.

  • Nik

    Hi Allen,

    Using your latest version, I’m seeing a lot of php warnings:

    mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Missing argument 9 for showexcerpt(), called in /var/www/clients/client11/web12/web/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/templates/smooth_scroll.php on line 37 and defined in /var/www/clients/client11/web12/web/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/excerpt_functions.php on line 19

    I do have an edit in the smooth scroll template to show images within the boxes as follows: (this was one of the hacks you suggested to me long ago to show images within the smooth scroll)

    $readable .= ”.showexcerpt($items["mydesc"],10,$openWindow,0,$items["mylink"],1,1,$noFollow).”;

    The old line was:

    $readable .= ”.showexcerpt($items["mydesc"],10,$openWindow,1,$items["mylink"],$adjustImageSize,$float,$noFollow,$items["myimage"]).”;

    It’s actually kind of working ok aside from the warnings.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Nick..well, first are you on a development or a production server? I ask because some people get these warnings depending on how they have php.init configured. Once I know this I can maybe help here.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Nick..also, I see that the the showexcerpt function has more terms in it than you have. Make this your line

      $readable .= ”.showexcerpt($items["mydesc"],10,$openWindow,0,$items["mylink"],1,1,$noFollow,$items["myimage"]).”;

      that is, include $items["myimage"]) at the end of the function…that should solve your problem.

      • Nik

        Oh tried that but it sends it into a loop. It’s not a huge ordeal really. Thanks for your help.

  • Alex Dovey

    Using the Feed to Post is there a way of storing the post source url as a separate bit of custom post meta?

    Currently it only seems to be adding the post source in the post_content but to use the feeds I need to link the title as well.

    • Alex Dovey

      Ok never mind, found it. For anyone else it’s set as a bit of post meta already, using get_post_meta($post -> ID, ‘rssmi_source_link’, true); should get it.

      Love the plugin, is the backbone of my site!

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Great..yes, that’s where it’s stored… also, if the plugin is working for you, if you haven’t had a chance, take a second and rate the plugin by going to

        http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

        It helps other people know whether they should try it or not.

        • Alex Dovey

          Ok rated, Great job, was working with wp-o-matic but that’s useless compared to this one. Cheers

  • gus

    the plugin have issues . when having a large number feeds it actually only pull up the last 3 feeds or more i add . but i doesnt support all feeds links i added .

    note : all links are working and test it just that the plugin doesnt pull the feeds.

    • gus

      total feeds i ahve is more then 40

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        Post a screen shot of your shortcode settings page

        • gus

          im using the feed to post option :)

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok..Post a screen short of your feed to post settings panel.

          • gus

            here is a screen shot . of the first 2 feeds . i also added them to a catagory and then chosed to make them appear on a certain catagory on the site as well . but i see a lot of feeds work and others dont work.

            note : when i use the shortcode option i see the feeds is being proccessed and viewable

          • gus

            ive founda something intersting . any rss url i add and its ( http://anydomain.com/rss.php ) it wont work.
            most of my feeds that follow this form doesnt work .

          • gus

            also it have an rss version 2.0 .

            i guess all the uses a 2.0 rss version doesnt work for feed to post option ?

  • redacter

    it seems like the most number of categories possible is 12; how can I increase this?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      as you can see here, there is no limit on the number of categories (I just added 14, for example)

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Did you ever get this working..I may have found a bug that can fix this problem?

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    Next version will have the ability of making images into Featured Images (if you’re using the feed to post option). If you want to try out a beta version of this, contact me using the contact form.

  • gus

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20 bytes) in /home/content/50/9439450/html/news/wp-includes/SimplePie/Parser.php on line 323

    im gettin g this error after i added many rss urls etc

    how to fix it ?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      yes, that’s a memory leak in simplepie…the only way to fix this is to increase the memory in your php configuration…if you are running this on a major web hosting service, this is handled by them, but if you are running this on a local machine, you need to increase the memory in the php.ini file.

      • gus

        hi allen . i contacted my server admins its godaddy . and they told me i have to create a php.ini or a php4.ini which ever php im using and then upload it to main html folder . and gave me a link to php.net . but i dont know what to do . ummmm also i found a post here

        http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/777/solve-php-fatal-error-allowed-memory-size-of-8388608-bytes-exhausted-tried/

        its explained that if add this code
        ini_set(“memory_limit”,”12M”);

        i need to add this code and increase the number into the actual file . where the php needs more memory to porocess or functino normaly .

        so can yo help me identify the file in your plugin to add this code to :)

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Gus,

          Add it to the top of the main file, which is wp-rss-multi-importer.php. Make sure you have it set to at least 128M

      • gus

        appearantally it worked when i added

        ini_set(“memory_limit”,”128M”); to the parser.php file in the include folder

  • gus

    it seems like this plugin only supports rss 1.0 and does not support rss 2.0 . is this right or im having issues ?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      The plugin supports rss 2.0 without any problems…my guess the problem lies with the specific feed you are trying to read. What is the url of the feed that is giving you problems?

  • http://twitter.com/sagarrana Sagar Bikram Rana

    hello allen, thanx for the wonderful plugin… just one question … is there anyway to change the background and font color for footer and sidebar contents?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Is this using the shortcode or the widget?

      • http://twitter.com/sagarrana Sagar Bikram Rana

        widget

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          The widget has a setting in the widget admin for changing the background color.

          • http://twitter.com/sagarrana Sagar Bikram Rana

            i should double check before i post silly questions… my apologies.. and thank u.. u r the best

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            That’s ok

          • http://twitter.com/sagarrana Sagar Bikram Rana

            one last quick question.. font colors and fonts are all site dependent?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Right. The widget can change the background but not font colors. That is theme dependent. You can override this in the template.css file

          • http://twitter.com/sagarrana Sagar Bikram Rana

            Thank you :)

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            No problem. Please be sure to rate the plugin on the WordPress site as it will help others determine if they should try it out. Thanks.

          • http://twitter.com/sagarrana Sagar Bikram Rana

            will do

  • http://it-enquirer.com Erik Vlietinck

    Hi Allen,

    I wanted to match RSSMI categories with my CMS categories and stumbled over the number field :-) . I have category IDs running int he tens of thousands (don’t know how that came about to be), e.g. “Publishing types” is ID 10928.

    The field only allows me 3 digits… Can you “fix” this, or can I do something to get those cat-IDs shorter?

    Many thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Erik…just send you an email wit the fix.

  • http://it-enquirer.com Erik Vlietinck

    Thank you, Allen!

  • PreambleRamble

    The hover arrow for reader choosing to see an excerpt is not showing up.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      To be able to figure out what might be going on, the only way is 1) if I can see an url where this is happening, and 2) perhaps a screen shot of your shortcode settings panel in the plugin admin.

  • guss

    hi allen .

    ummmm can you do something for iphone / mobile browsers .

    when choosing the lightbox option . the phone open the window fine but you cant scroll or move to view the contents in the light box

    thnx in advance

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      well, the problem lies with the iphone and other mobile browsers..they won’t let the scroll work…there is no workaround….what I do have is code (for the shortcode option) that prohibits mobile users from viewing the lightbox but instead switches it to a new tab…don’t know if that’s working on your phone or not…if not, what mobile phone are you using?

      • guss

        the device i tested it on is iphone . but it was on (feed to post option) .
        can you provide the same code but for feed to post option ?

        ummm you cant use iframe ? or like some site have when clicking the url it navigates to the url but on top it have a button or tag for current site to go back .

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          if this is on a feed to post, it would be difficult to provide code for this since the article (and it’s links) are stored in the WP database. It would be up to WP to determine which device is viewing the site and then change the links accordingly. there may be a javascript solution for this but I’ll need to look into that as a way to handle this problem.

          • guss

            thanks allen . the files you send me worked very well . and hope you fix us an option such lightbox for mobile devices in the future.

  • http://latinoleader.info/ Latino Leader

    Hi Allen. I’m wondering how one can delete categories from the Feed to Post Settings tab? Thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      All you have to do is leave the Blog Category ID blank and save, like here

      http://screencast.com/t/CbIRHikdl

      • http://latinoleader.info/ Latino Leader

        Wonderful… it worked! Thank you.

  • shanonline

    HI Admin..
    can u help me why images are not coming after updating this plugin .. images are coming b4 updating this plugin.????
    http://www.liketopost.com/design/web-sites-of-the-day/

    Rss= http://feeds.feedburner.com/awwwards-sites-of-the-day

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi…can you post here a screenshot of your Shortcode settings page?

  • shanonline

    [wp_rss_multi_importer category="WEB" testyle="color:#cccccc" hdsize="30 px" maximgwidth="600" floattype="left"]

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      First off, the category in that shortcode should be a number, not a word…since you have a word in there, the plugin will just get all the feeds, rather than a specific category. What I was asking for that would help is the settings page in the admin section of the plugin…can you post that? Thanks

      • shanonline

        its category was “web” and it was working properly with same code.but after updating same short code not showing images …. and now even i try with no as well (both short code and in admin seting)

        [wp_rss_multi_importer category="1" testyle="color:#cccccc" hdsize="30 px" maximgwidth="600" floattype="left"]

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok…without seeing the settings page in the admin section of the plugin, I cannot help you. It’s the admin section that determines what happens with your images…so please post that.

  • Judy

    Only about half of my feeds will download in the

    WP RSS Multi-Importer Options feeds portion of the plugin
    I know that I have lots of feeds but was going to delete the feeds that I think are a problem since that is where it sticks but since they won’t download I cannot edit or delete them.

    Have disabled this and others, etc. etc. etc
    All feeds still seem to be loading on the pages except the problem feeds coming from indeed.com

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Judy……it seems you have 2 issues…1) only some feeds will come in, 2) a possible problem with indeed.com

      Regarding 2), what is the RSS url that you’re using
      Regarding 1)….can you post a screen shot of the the settings page you are using (either the shortcode settings or the Feed to Post settings, whichever you are using.

      Thanks,
      Allen

      • Judy

        RSS url- http://rss.indeed.com/rss?q=&l=hartford+ct (I am and have been using a lot of these for different cities for quite some time and have not had a problem til this morning). However, I don’t have a problem deleting them and using another plugin for feeds if I have overloaded my wp memory by having too many feeds from too many sources

        I’m using the shortcode settins page

        Sorry, cannot get my wireless keyboard to get a screenshot so will try to give you what I have

        default template

        descending

        yes

        20

        50

        no

        use lightbox

        set nofollow

        no attributions

        show excerpts

        length 200

        If you want excerpt images, check to fix their width at 150 (can be over-written in shortcode). checked

        Float images to the left (can be over-written in shortcode). checked

        default category process normally

        cache 30

        Sorry about the above, hope it helps :)

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi,

          Well, here is what it looks like on this site

          http://www.allenweiss.com/test/main-test/

          If you want, contact me using the contact page and maybe I can help by looking more closely at your site.

          Allen

          • guss

            allen . thats the same exact problem ive been reporting . some feeds dont work.

          • Judy

            Hi Guss, Did you get this to work?

          • Judy

            When I go into the plugin to add a new feed and assign it to a category, only half (or less) of the feeds load. There is no way to go to the end of the feeds to add a new one because they won’t all load.

            Under the RSS Feed Amin Feeds tab (not overview, not category etc). Only half of them load so I cannot add more.

            I have many feeds with categories but cannot delete any because they won’t all load. I hope this is more specific (sorry no screen shot). :)

            Some of the feeds don’t work (like Guess said below)

            Here is the message on my page: You’ve either entered a category ID that doesn’t exist or have no feeds configured for this category. Edit the shortcode on this page with a category ID that exists, or go here and and get an ID that does exist in your admin panel.There is a problem with the feeds you entered. Go to our support page and we’ll help you diagnose the problem

            This message just started showing up for several feeds– (odd that the plugin works on your page with the indeed rss feed that won’t work on mine)

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Just sent you a email.

  • Judy

    I did this like you said echo check_feed($url_esc)
    And comment this line and now my whole website is down help!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      did you get this resolved?

  • Judy

    I would just like to delete the plugin but can’t even get to the plugins

  • http://www.facebook.com/mevans3 Matthew Evans

    Is it possible to get filters for rss feeds? So for example I want to ignore rss posts that contain certain words? Also is it possible to get a small script that we can run as a cron so that it will update our rss feeds all the time and not just when a user visits the website? Thanks

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Matthew
      The version I’ll be launching later today will have the ability to use a free outside cron service to update the feeds (for the Feed to Post option) as often as you want – this isn’t necessary for the shortcode since it pulls the feeds in real time.

      As for the filter, this will be available in the next update..but if you want to try it out contact me using the contact form on this site.

      • http://www.facebook.com/mevans3 Matthew Evans

        That’s brilliant thank you :) I’ve just sent a comment on here also as there’s an error in the latest version :) thank you for a really good plugin! I will send you a message now!

  • Wayne

    Hi, grt plugin but can I ask, when I do feed to post I only get a sippet of the whole article, can it pull in the whole article, plus when I set the Maximum width size of images to say 250px I still get bigger images any quick fixes?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Wayne
      What is the RSS url that you are using?

      Allen

  • http://twitter.com/ednapeacedr Edna Rodriguez

    Our RSS feeds mysteriously disappeared. Any idea what would make this happen?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      I don’t understand what you are referring to…when did this disappear?

  • http://www.facebook.com/mevans3 Matthew Evans

    Hi there, I’m getting an error with the latest update :(

    Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/mywebsite/public_html/news/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/import_posts.php on line 617

    Anything I can do temporarily to fix it?

  • angelo

    hi there,
    congratulations about this wonderful plugin!.
    im getting this error (Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/import_posts.php on line 617) after i updated to the latest version.
    Is there any way to fix this?
    Thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      right…looks like this happens if you have no categories set…I’ll fix this, but in the meantime just comment out line 617

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        It turns out this happens depending on which version of php your server is running.

  • Sociolingo

    Hi, plug in was working fine until today – after update yesterday I think. Now it is showing error message on line 617 and refusing to import feed. Help? Thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      I just pushed an update with a fix for that bug

  • http://www.facebook.com/george.srene.1 George Srene

    Hi Allen, can you add an option to display the feed items randomly? Usually they are sorted already but randomizing the order would liven things up for my blog, thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi George
      Let me see if I can get this into a future update.

  • gusss

    hi allen . i have an issue for facebook feeds .
    facebook pages doesnt open in frames .

    when a new feed comes , it cant be opened in the lightbox option.

    - i dont want to remove the lightbox option unless i must . in this case i have to remove it . is there any way to remove the lightbox option for facebook feeds and keep it for all other feeds from other sites ?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      interesting question…there is no way to do that right now since it requires a coding solution..but I can look into this.

      • guss

        thanks for the good work keep us updated hope to see a new updates soon :)

  • Allen

    I’m getting these error messages on the top of my wordpress dashboard pages:

    Notice: Undefined index: rssmi_feedID in /home1/debbyapp/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/import_posts.php on line 4

    Notice: Undefined index: rssmi_catID in /home1/debbyapp/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/import_posts.php on line 5

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      It looks like you have the debug setting on.

      • mag

        It works when I replaced
        $feedID=$_GET['rssmi_feedID'];
        $catID=$_GET['rssmi_catID'];
        with
        $feedID = isset( $_GET[ 'rssmi_feedID' ] ) ? $_GET['rssmi_feedID'] : “”;
        $catID = isset( $_GET[ 'rssmi_feedID' ] ) ? $_GET['rssmi_catID'] : “”;

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Interesting…I guess I’d change this to

          $feedID = isset( $_GET[ 'rssmi_feedID' ] ) ? $_GET['rssmi_feedID'] : NULL;
          $catID = isset( $_GET[ 'rssmi_feedID' ] ) ? $_GET['rssmi_catID'] : NULL;

          since the code right below this is trapping for NULL, not a blank, like “”

  • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

    It seems you should simply delete the plugin and use another one.

  • gusss

    hello , any update to fix the facebook feeds :) ?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      no update, not sure when..but is this for feed to post or the shortcode?

      • gusss

        its for feed to post option . and i guess its for both the shortcodes and feed to post .

        the problem is from facebook website it self , it does not open i frames .
        if you can find a way like youtube feeds loads only the video in a small lightbox ?
        can the facebook thread be loaded in a small frame like the youtube video option ?

        since youtube and facebook i guess provide a similar feed api . well i dont really mean an api . but when creating an application for iphone or android for example im able to pull the text and image only from a facebook thread . but that goes for my own facebook page .

        i dont know if this right but im just saying :)

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          youtube can open in a lightbox, so that’s why that works with my plugin …facebook is different..it’s like Pinterest which disallows iframes..period…so there is no getting around that.

          • gusss

            a mini pop up window can be similar to the lightbox except that is a new window .

            any help making it work like that ?

            or an option to make facebook only urls open in a new window if we choose light box as the option .
            i really love the lightbox but i cant deal with facebook feeds like that .

            any help allen please :)

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            i doubt I have time for this, but give me a facebook rss feed in case I have time

          • gusss

            sure i will give you the rss feed model .

            https://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=rss20&id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

            go to any facebook page and replace www. with graph. ( example : graph.facebook.com/etc)
            the xxxxxxxx in the feed url refers to the facebook page id

            thanks in advance

          • gussss

            graph . facebook .com is only to get the page id . has nothing to do with the feed it self

            thanks

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..you can add this to the template (assuming this is short code)
            if(strpos($items["mylink"],’www.facebook.com’)>0){$openWindow=’target=_blank’;}
            that will open Facebook links in a new window

            it would take longer for the feed to post option since this requires a jquery solution since the post is outside the purview of the plugin

          • gusssss

            but in my case its a feed to post option . would it be a simple code as this to be added any where in the existing files ?

          • gusssssss

            in my case its a feed to post option , would it be a simple code as this to add to any existing file etc ?

          • guesss

            in my case its a feed to post option , would it be a simple code as this to add to any existing file etc ?????

  • Danielle Weymouth

    i just installed the plugin. It seems perfect. Unfortunately, it seems to be conflicting with my theme (Responsive). No matter where the widget is placed, it causes all other widgets after it to line up directly below it instead of in their correct sidebars / columns. In addition, the RSS feed, which is a correct feed, is not showing up. My site is http://seaninconcert.com/. We are trying to go live this week. Any ideas? I would really like to be able to use this.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi…well, let’s first deal with the feed issue since the other part is a CSS issue. What is the feed you are using that is giving you problems (the URL of the RSS feed)?

  • http://www.facebook.com/michael.h.broder Michael H. Broder

    My distribution label option seems to have disappeared. Is it possible I’m aggregating from too many feeds?

  • http://www.facebook.com/michael.h.broder Michael H. Broder

    I meant to say attribution not distribution.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi. I’m not clear on what the distribution label option refers to.

      • http://www.facebook.com/michael.h.broder Michael H. Broder

        On the Feeds tab, there’s a note: “The name will be used to identify which feed produced the link (see the Attribution Label option below).” But that option does not appear anywhere on the page. When I first started using the plugin, the source attributions appeared beneath each item in the scrolling list. But at some point, the attributions disappeared; it’s just a list of article titles, no sources listed.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          oh…that’s right…several versions ago I moved the settings from beneath the feeds to a separate tab called Shortcode settings.

          • http://www.facebook.com/michael.h.broder Michael H. Broder

            OK, so, I went to the Shortcode Settings tab, set the Feed Source Attribution Label to “Source,” and checked the box that says “Show Feed or Author Name (if available).” And I am still not seeing source attributions listed in my scrolling list of feed items. But I swear, the sources used to be there, apparently just by default.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi Michael…with so many people asking questions, don’t know if you got this figured out…if not, let me know and I’ll help you.

            Allen

  • http://www.trendshop.se/ TM Redaktionen – Fredric

    Hi! I wonder if Multi RSS Importer works with “mynewsdesk.com / partners / api /”?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      It looks like they have an RSS feed, which is what you need for the plugin…it’s part of their api

  • asociatiavictimelorrutiere

    Hi Allen, thank you for this great plugin.

    I have only one problem in using it .How i need to set up the plugin in order to create more pages in my blog category.Actually, is importing a lot of message form feeds, but just 20 entries are posted, no pagination created. I use this plugin since 5 days ago, imported over 750 message, but every day new 20 entries posted rewrites last 20 entries, so no pagination created. (exemple: Pg 1, 2, 3,…etc)

    Sorry for my bad english

    Thanks, Have a nice day!

  • Jim

    Hi Allen, for some reason this rss feed isn’t loading into your rss importer. Here is the feed: http://www.ajc.com/rss/weblog_entries/uga-sports/ It shows as being a valid feed on several feed validators that I checked it on so not sure the problem. Appreciate any help you can provide.

  • gusss

    hi allen , i have a feed to post option . can i add a code similar to this any where in the files to make the facebook feeds work same thing for feed to post options ?

    in my case its a feed to post option , would it be a simple code as this to add to any existing file etc ?

    • gusss

      sorry about the spamming . i thought my messages doesnt appear so i send it too many times . sorry about that

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      ok..email me using the contact form and I’ll send a very quick and dirty fix for this.

  • http://twitter.com/SandraJones44 Sandy Jones

    Hi Allen! I love this plugin!! What is interesting is that this is what I wanted it to do. I played around with iPage until I got it to work there. My dilemma is this: I have a website at iPage http://www.thelindenchronicles.com (which is on the WP.org platform. I have a WP.com blog at http://www.thelindenchronicles.wordpress.com which is on the WP.com platform. Since the WP.org and the WP.com are different entities, I found working with WP.com had all of the functionality I needed as a blogger, whereas iPage with .org does not. I want to ultimately post to WP.com and have it fling over to iPage where my mail and SEO’s reside, and then autoblog from there. However, I am told that the search engines will see that as a replicate blog coming from both sites and therefore not original information. Another interesting thing I ran across is that last night I had two people subscribe to the blog on iPage through the lightbox and they showed up on my user/subscription list on iPage rather than on WP.com. So what I did was to put a blurb on the right sidebar and on top of the RSS feed to indicate that the user has to go to the original WP.com page in order to subscribe to the actual feed. I suppose I should probably just point the nameservers onto the WP.com, but then I won’t see the Google Analytics as it thinks they landed on WP.com. I had no idea that there was such a difference! I have been discussing this with both iPage and with WP.com and they were surprised your plug in existed! I knew it could be done so I proved my point. Just wondered if you had any suggestions. The only thing I can think of is to open in new window that when they subscribe to the blog it actually takes them to the site. What do you think? Thanks so much and feel free to go to both sites to see what I mean if you like!! Take care and have a great day!! Sandy Jones

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Sandy…well, the first thing is that you are right…search engines don’t like the same content to reside on 2 urls..else they tend to index one and not the other (and you have no choice as to which one they index). My suggestion is to choose one or the other platforms and focus on that..it turns out you can get the same functionality with either one (e.g., for example, if you put a web site on a hosting platform using wordpress – which I think you’re calling wp.org – you can get all the functionality as you get on iPage – such as an email signup – but this would be using simple plugins). Also by having everything on one site you can focus your google analytics on that one site – again, easy to do on either platform.

      Not sure if this helps, but in general I would consolidate as it will make it easier for you and your visitors.

      Allen

  • AH

    Cheers Allen,

    Great plugin – I think – I cannot get it to work, and I only get this message on my page:
    “You have one feed and it’s not valid. This is likely a problem with the
    source of the RSS feed. Contact our support forum for help.”

    What to do? I have followed every video and tutorial, but it still f***s with me.
    I’m using this url: http://www.trendandthecity.it/feed/

  • Doug

    First of all I love the plugin and will be donating if my little blog ever brings in some money. I do have one question/suggestion. I really like the Clean Separated template, but it seems like it should show the actual source name instead of saying “continue reading at the source.” Is there an easy way for me to make this change?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Doug…thanks…did you know you could customize those templates (if you know some php and css) to do what you want? If you don’t have the skills, let me know and I’ll change the template and send it to you (then you can save it).
      Allen

  • Tom Anton

    Alan, thank you for the wonderful plugin. It cured all of my problems.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Great…thanks Tom

  • Rob

    Worked first time, no problems. Just need to find out how to get the whole feed and not just the excerpt.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      choose Give Me Everything

  • Jim

    Hi Allen, thanks again for a wonderful tool. Was wondering if it would be possible to change the text “Online Source” to something like “Read More at”… Unfortunately I have little coding experience and don’t know how to make that edit if indeed it is possible. Appreciate your help if you can. Thank You!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Are you using the shortcode (if so which template) or feed to post?

  • Laura

    Hi Allen,
    I absolutely LOVE your plugin. My websites are both on Host Gator and I have had no problems with your plugin.

    Sincerely,
    Laura

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      why thanks you Laura.. also, if the plugin is working for you, if you haven’t had a chance, take a second and rate the plugin by going to

      http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

      It helps other people know whether they should try it or not AND is the best way to say thanks

  • Laura

    Hi Allen,

    I absolutely love your plugin. I have two websites on Host Gator and I have had no problems at all.

    Sincerely,
    Laura

  • Laura

    Hi Allen,

    I have a question about featured images. I notice on the feed that I don’t always see the featured images for some of my posts. I was just wondering how it works. I’m using WordPress 3.5.1 on HostGator. My WordPress theme is Weaver II. I know I definitely have a featured image attached to all my posts. I see that most of the posts coming from Blogger have images.

    Your plugin has been so helpful. I just did two websites for my sister and myself. We lost our social network called, Multiply, which we had been blogging on for the past seven years and it was sold to a Asian ecommerce company, so now everyone is now scattered in different directions. Some are on Blogger, some are on Blogster, some our on WordPress.com, but I chose WordPress.org, so we use your plugin as our way to being able to keep up with our friends’ activity.

    Laura

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Laura…thanks..the way it works is that if you choose to have a featured image, the plugin looks to see if there is indeed an image associated with the feed post..if the image exists, it becomes the featured image…if there is no image, then there will not be featured image. Does that help?

  • http://it-enquirer.com Erik Vlietinck

    Here’s a story on the plug-in: http://enterprise.it-enquirer.com/2013/01/30/wordpress-news-curation/
    Hope you’ll enjoy!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Thank you Erik!

  • callmeisaac

    I also wrote something like this.

  • MyeBayWorld

    Hello,

    Very fond of using this plugin, was hoping in the next release to stay current with the most recent version of WP, could there be a new feature added to the RSS to Posts section. A post expire option, so that when the plugin fetches new posts, the admin has the option to have the older posts become drafts or deleted. Would be great, I’m using it as a way to fetch my ebay listings and you never know when something sells or the listing expires but the post still exists.

    Thanks for the awsome plugin, cheers.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello..so are you saying you’d like a way to specify a date or something such that any posts that come in after that date are drafts or are not published? Since posts come in all the time, a constant date wouldn’t work (I don’t think), but maybe a number of days from now (i.e, today) would.

  • MyeBayWorld

    Hi Allen,

    Thanks for replying to my comment. Yes I believe we are on the same page. I’m trying to use your plugin in conjunction with a post expire plugin that doesn’t seem to work well together. This other plugin uses a strtotime (string method) that uses for example a +1 Day or +2 Day format to add the future expiration dates from whatever the post date is. In my case, I’m having my rss feed fetched 1 time a day to keep all of the current items in the feed current on the site, so the publish time I have in the “Post to Feed” area over-ridden with the current time and date. To be able to add an automatic expire that would delete or draft, or unpublish or move to a category at the same time or right before the new updated items from the rss feed are published to posts.

    Thanks for listening to my idea, I think it would be a great optional feature to have, hope to see it in your next update.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Ok. Just so you know, my plugin can only handle this when the RSS feed comes in. Once the article is posted, the plugin isn’t designed to change the status after its been posted.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Are you willing to be a beta tester of this?

      • MyeBayWorld

        Yes, I would definitely help beta test. Let me know when you have a beta version ready.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Ok..I’ll be able to send something to you tomorrow afternoon – after I make sure it’s working.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          just sent you the files

  • geberel

    Hi Allen, this plugin is really fantastic. Just one thing to aak: how can I clear the cache and import again all the feed from my rss? I’ve put in the trash all the feeds imported and now I want to get theme again.

    Thanks,
    gabriella

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Gabriella
      If you’re using the Feed to Post option, then if you put the posts in the trash you can move them from the trash back into the published status again…this is just the way wordpress works. Is that what you’re doing?

      Allen

      • geberel

        Hi Allen thanks for the answer. I’ve already done this but I’d like to import again all the feeds because I’ve setted other feater in your plugin and I’d like to import them in the new way (ex: showing a larger image…)

        Another question: how can I put a [more] at the end of my imported posts?
        As you can see here http://www.stilefemminile.it/pillola-musicale-1-highway-2/ the post stops but I want to somethign like a [more] at the end.
        Thanks a lot for the support,
        Gabriella

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok…here is what I would do…move all the posts into the trash, then make sure you delete the trash. Then you can import the feeds again. As for the other issue, can you give me the RSS URL of the feed you want to put [more] at the end?

          • geberel

            Perfect! I’ll try!

            Here is the rss url fo my feed: http://www.autoaspillo.com/feed/

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok..I choose to get 500 words as the excerpt length in the admin setting, and this is what I get. Do you have the excerpt length set, and if so, what is the length you have it set for?

          • geberel

            I’ve set to get just 20 words but I need to put at the end some dots e perhaps a [read more]. Is so, the text will finsih like this…[read more]

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok..contact me using the contact form on this web site and I’ll send you a file that will correct this problem.

          • geberel

            Thanks Allen, I’ll do it :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/samerkamelphotography Samer Kamel

    Hi Allen Weiss

    Thanks for the plugin … it works perfectly on my server and exactly what i need, i ran into one thing that i cant actually do, i am trying to add the feed source into the title of each post ( i want to mention each feed author as it is their work after all ) ..

    i edited this:

    function ta_modified_post_title ($title) {
    if ( in_the_loop() && !is_page() ) {
    global $wp_query;
    $postID=$wp_query->post->ID;
    $myLink = get_post_meta($postID, ‘rssmi_source_link’ , true);
    if (!empty($myLink)){
    $myTitle=$wp_query->post->post_title;
    $myLinkTitle=’Testing:’.$myTitle.’‘; // change how the link opens here
    return $myLinkTitle;
    }
    }
    return $title;
    }

    The “Testing” appears when i view the post on the frontend but not back end ( or when i post it to facebook – which is probably the main reason i am trying to do this )

    is there any way you can guide me as to where i should be messing with the code ? :D

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Samer…well, I’m not sure if you can pull this off since this function is being hooked into wordpress via the add_filter, which only affects the front end of the wordpress site and only happens when the page that post is on is being loaded. It does not alter what is in the database, which is likely what you want. If you do figure this out, let me know. Allen

      • http://www.facebook.com/samerkamelphotography Samer Kamel

        THIS IS EXCELLENT SUPPORT !!! thanks for the ( VERY ) quick reply !

        I managed to add a string adding it here ( $post['post_title'] = “Samer”.trim($items["mytitle"]); ) in import_posts.php i am thinking if i can add the feed name ( that i set with each feed in WP backend ) via a variable that would be exactly what i needed ( editing the above line edited it in the database )

        i am still going through with this but if you know how i can do this it would be perfect ! ( i think this would be a very good feature for next update too ;) )

      • http://www.facebook.com/samerkamelphotography Samer Kamel

        i THINK this worked : $post['post_title'] = $items["myGroup"].”: “.trim($items["mytitle"]);

        for some reason i am getting double posts but that could be due to me deleting posts and adding them numerous times.. will confirm if it works properly :) thanks for the quick reply it gave me faith in good support !! Thanks @allenweiss:disqus

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Regarding double posts, I’ve seen this happen when people click on the Click to Fetch Feeds now button at the same time the cron is running. If you delete posts, my suggestion is to completely delete them in trash as well.

  • http://twitter.com/AdvanceZine AdvanceMagazine

    Hi Allen,

    Great plugin, tried it and it worked generally really well, but I’m wondering if it can be used in a very important way for us. We’re trying to move from Ning to WordPress, but some of our blogs have 900 or more posts. Is it possible to use this plugin by burning a Feedburner feed, then using that to feed-to-post all 900 of the posts? It would be a life-saver, as I have no other way to import from Ning. I have 20 blogs to move from Ning and I know of many of my web friends who are desperately looking for a way to move blogs from Ning to WordPress (only one plugin exists for importing Ning json files, and it doesn’t work anymore on 3.5). I thought I had found a magic solution with your great plugin, but it didn’t quite work out.

    I tried feed-to-post on a less important blog I set up to test this where there are just 30 posts. I set up the feedburner feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ Advancemagazine and set that up as a feed on your plugin on our new wordpress test: http://advancezine.com. The original ning blog is http://advancezine.ning.com. Even though I have it set to up to 300 posts, I only get the last blog… is there a workaround on this? It imported the post beautifully, complete with heading, photo — beautiful. But only one. Is there a way to fetch more to posts? This would be a real lifesaver when it comes to our bigger blogs. Thanks so much!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello…..right now, the plugin can pull in all the feeds that are in the feed url…..so if feedburner has just 30 posts, it will pull in 30 posts (if the settings are set correctly). There might be a need to override the settings that are possible with the plugin right now, but if you contact me using the form above, I can probably send you a file that will give you more feed settings.
      Allen

  • gusssss

    hi allen , how can i make the source appear for some feeds and not the others ?
    for example if i choose youtube feed , then source must be turned on other wise no one will be able to click the source that leads to the video . so i have to leave it on . can i for example make the source appear on youtube feeds and not appear on facebook group feeds for example ?
    one more thing , is there any way to make facebook feeds only pull the whole excerpt and not as i set it for all feeds .
    as default i want all feeds to pull 50 characters , but for facebook feeds only i want it to pull the full text . is it possible i can do that ?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Is this for the shortcode (which is possible if you put the youtube and facebook feeds into different categories and show them using different shortcodes) or the feed to post (which is not possible unless you want to go in a change the code yourself).

      • gusss

        its for the feed to post option . would you help or guide me though on how to do it as i dont know a lot about coding .

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      If you’re using the shortcode this may be possible with shortcode parameters. If its the feed to post, you would need to do this by altering the code.

  • cinester

    Hello,

    is there a way how to change height of image or crop image in excerpt? Thank you.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      at this point, the answer is no…sorry

  • Rich

    I have tried running it on twenty twelve after it did not work on my other theme. It seems really good BUT doesnt work. It will fetch me the headline when I request a fetch only and does not add content even though i have followed the settings. Am I missing something?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      What is the url of the feed you are trying to fetch? Also, can you post a screen shot of the settings panel for the Feed to Post?

  • SharonL

    Using the Feed to Posts option from a Google News RSS feed. I put in a separate Category for all posts from there. That Category is not showing up in my Categories list. Also, I would like to know where to remove the Table info and font sizes on the posts. Could you tell me if there is a separate post template within the RSS Multi Importer module? Name? Thank You.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      just sent you a message to your email address

  • billbobaggins

    I have the RSS-MI set up to receive several feeds that I am then putting into “draft” mode so I can go through and “Feed to Post” only the specific feeds that I want to post, and then I delete the rest. However, when I delete the stories that I do not want to post, the deleted stories end up popping back up again when it does the feed update the next time around, and then I have to go through and delete them all over again. Is there a way to fix this?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Here’s the way this works. If you want the post to be deleted and never come back you need to not just delete the post, but also trash the post.

  • JeffC

    I can’t seem to capture all of the posts in the feeds I’ve included. I see some of them from one and none from another (both feeds have had recent updates, but the newest aren’t showing up). I am also getting duplicate posts. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Can you post here a screen shot of your Feed to Post setting or email me using the contact form? Are you clicking the Click to Fetch Feeds Now button?

  • Lu

    Hi Allen, The plugin is great but I’ve always got this message that can bee seen by a visitors… is there a way to be seen by admin only?
    “There is a problem with the feeds you entered. Go to our support page and we’ll help you diagnose the problem.”

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Did you check the box that says don’t show error messages?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      here is where you check the box to suppress the warning message…..at the present time, I haven’t made it so only admins can see it but I’ll do so on the next update

  • Mehdi Meziane

    Hi, how can i add a filter from CDATA RSS information of my feed ?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      I’m not sure what you mean….what is the url of the RSS and what filter do you want to place on this feed?

  • Michael

    All images are getting resized how do i stop the plugin from doing this?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Uncheck the box that says resize the images

      • Michael

        i cant find that box mate

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          It says
          If you want excerpt images, check to fix their width at 150 (can be over-written in shortcode).

          • Michael

            that’s unticked but its still stretching images

          • michael

            its stretching to the value of Maximum width size of images

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Ok. What is the URL of the feed that is doing this?

          • Michael

            its doing it on 4 that i have up on http://www.quicknews.co.uk

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            I guess I’m not sure which 4 you’re talking about…the easiest way for me to see what’s going on is to get the RSS URL of the feed that is having this image resized, not the url of your web site.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Also, you can set the image to Unrestricted, as in the attached..but note this will bring in the raw image, which could be any size (even a size that will blow out your design), but that’s up to you.

          • Michael

            that streteches them to 999 width for some reason mate

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            send me the url of your site and exactly which image are being stretched to 999

          • Michael
          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok…I see the problem…what is the RSS feed that has these images in it so I can reproduce the problem and fix it?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            just sent you an email with the fix for this problem…it was a bug (thanks for bringing to my attention) and will be fixed in the next update.

  • rl1207

    Hi Allen,

    Great plugin! I got it all set up and working, but they didn’t import into the category even though I had the category and category ID set. I removed the posts (because I noted the disclaimer that if posts were removed, they would be re-added) and tried to re-import the feed, but it won’t do it. The feed I’m using is http://www.prweb.com/rss2g/493625.xml. Can you help me? I’m not sure what to search for under the forums, thus my post here.
    FYI, the login options here aren’t working for me, maybe others as well. I’ve signed into both Disqus and Facebook through the buttons below the comment field, and the pop up shows that I get signed in, but then nothing changes.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      ok…can you post a screenshot of the Feed to Post settings so I can see what’s going on. Also, you need to actually delete the trash else the posts won’t re-import.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Also, I’m successfully bringing in this feed using the feed to post, which you can see here:

      http://www.wprssimporter.com/test/

  • Jeanene

    Very cool plug in. I think I’m missing something and could use quick help. Dropped in the shortcode to my page and I’m getting alot of code showing BEFORE the feed shows. http://sodaliselderliving.com/news Am I missing something in the settings, or is that a compatabiiity issue?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi…first, are you using the very latest version of the plugin? What you’re seeing is an error message that is due to something on your server (which the latest version should get around).

      • Jeanene

        Thanks for the speedy reply. Plugin says version 2.60. Is that the newest? Just added it to a WP 3.5.1 site.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok…there is something going on with the feed, etc. Here’s the easiest way for me to solve this…first contact me using the contact form on this site and we’ll go from there.

  • annette

    get this error when try fetch feeds Warning: array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, string given in /home/americ15/public_html/test/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/import_posts.php on line 184

    Warning: preg_grep() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /home/americ15/public_html/test/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/import_posts.php on line 184

    Warning: key() expects parameter 1 to be array, string given in /home/americ15/public_html/test/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/import_posts.php on line 306

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi…can you send me a screen shot of what you have in the Feeds panel in the plugin…there seems to be a problem with the feeds…You can contact me using the contact form on this website.

      • annette

        Hi Allen I made a mistake I thought added feed but hadn’t then error went away. Thank you for replying so quickly.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Great. Thanks.

  • Stuart Mason Dambrot

    UPDATE: I fixed the Permalink issue by adding”-rss” to the Export Feed name. Now, how can I display an RSS icon on my aggregator page that will let visitors subscribe to the to the Export Feed I specified in the plugin?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      You can, by simply putting a linked icon on that page (linked to the url of the RSS feed you just created).

      • Stuart Mason Dambrot

        Of course…but it would be simpler if the plugin handled it internally. Also, the first issue could be prevented, or at least a caveat could be added to in Export Feed settings. Anyway, there are more serious issues, and you did note that this feature is in beta. It’s a great plugin that will one day be even better.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          well, it turns out it’s difficult to figure out where anybody would place the RSS icon..so its not easy to have a box to add it, since I would have no idea where on their site they want the icon. and yes, there are more serious outstanding issues with the export feed that I haven’t resolved yet.

          • Stuart Mason Dambrot

            When the main issues are resolved, one way might be to add an RSS icon to the post and page editing menu bar. Users could position their cursor , click it, and that’s it. A fancier version could allow them to select from RSS icon sizes or colors.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok…I’ll see if I can do this after I fix a bug that has been plaguing this feature for the last several months.

  • Mithat Abakan

    Hi Allen
    I setup a template, but does not import images
    And I’m having trouble headline
    Pls help me..
    http://www.tropday.com

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Are you using the default template? What is the URL of the RSS feed you are using?

  • Ingrid

    Such a great Plugin for my ever changing entertainment chart post! Thank you Pictures & all is great!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Thank you.

  • aeh dfhm

    Hi Allen,
    I´m trying to get this plugin to work – I´m new to wp`and have no it-qualifications, so maybe my questions are allready answered or illustrated, if so, I apologies, I have tried to search the net…so here we go..

    I have 6-8 feeds I would like to show in one feed – this I have suceeded doing – but I also want to be able to search in the feed along the different category I assign to each post (each post has one category, which can differ within a feed), wether this is done on a new page or not – doesn´t matter. This part I can not get to work…can you help me?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      are you using the shortcode? If so, you can combine all or any of the feeds into one page by using the category parameter…so if you have 3 categories, with the IDs of 1, 2 and 3 and want 1 and 2 on page you would use this shortcode:

      [wp_rss_multi_importer category="1,2"]

  • Daniel

    Hello Allen,
    it is the best plugin in it’s category and many will agree on that, thanks for creating it. I want to add an option to “Feed Source Attribution Label”, a Hebrew word that meaning Via so the source will be declared in Hebrew in posts.
    Thanks

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Daniel…thanks…are you using the Feed to Post function? I can possibly add a free form text box for you to put in your own label…just need to know whether this is for the shortcode or Feed to Post.

    • Daniel

      Hello Allen,
      its for the feed to post, an additional option to Via and Source in the drop-down list, that will represent Source but in Hebrew,
      I can program in php and even tried to find it but without success so far.
      Thanks

  • Rick

    Hi Allen,

    Love the smooth scroll template option you have. My default colors are gray text, red link, yellow highlight which looks great on a black background, but not on the default white. I looked in the wp-rss-multi-importer/templates/smooth_scroll.php file but did not find anywhere to make a background color change. Any help greatly appreciated.

  • http://www.facebook.com/williamemaness William Maness

    Hello Allen,

    First, Kudos for a world-class plugin. Very effective. I have a minor bug to report (or I’m not doing something right…)

    at http://www.ndsystems.com, at the bottom of the page, I have two vertical scrolling feeds. They appear to be drawing valid data, but only the left one scrolls properly. I verified that the right one works, if I don’t have the left one active. They are separated by your clever category system. Any suggestions?

  • RedThread

    I’m fairly new to RSS feeds, but I love this plugin!
    My question is simple: I am finding a lot of feeds that are “XML” rather than “RSS.”
    My browser won’t display them (without a reader?) and your plugin doesn’t read them, either.
    Are those “XML” feeds simply “off limits” – or am I missing something for how to display those?
    They seem to be referred to as RSS feeds, but they just don’t work. Thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello, RSS feeds are in xml, so technically that feed should work.. If you have firefox, all the feeds will show up in FF, so give that a try or tell me the url of feed and I’ll check it for you.

      • RedThread

        It’s not working in Firefox or Safari. Here is the Feed URL provided by the source (a local newspaper):
        feed://www.thekansan.com/section/community?template=rss&mime=xml

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Right…well, their feed is broken or not providing any items for the community section. If you try another RSS feed, you’ll see it’s working fine

          http://www.thekansan.com/section/feed

          As long as their is a viable feed (meaning it has items in it), it will work fine in my plugin.

  • Nelson

    Hi Allen,

    first up… your plugin is really Great!!!…. 2nd a novice question: where can i add a shortcode? I want to increase the size of the image… say 200px… btw, i use this plugin in widget area.
    Thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello…if you are using the theme widget then you would need change the image in the widget file or CSS. The shortcode can work in the widget section on various sites, but that depends on the theme you’re using. Do you know how to change the image in the widget program?

      • Nelson

        Thanks for your reply… widget program? nope… it’s okay. Thanks!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Thanks. The shortcode is usually added to a page.

  • Ivo

    Hi Allen,

    I would like to thank you for your great plugin. I am just client of web designer who installed this plugin for me. I would like to ask you is there any chance that your next plugin update allow more flexible time for imported RSS? Would be nice to have control for imported feeds in 15 min,, 20 min. and half an hour. This current option with cron sites looks bit more complicated and would be great if you can allow this. Thank you and greetings from Croatia

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Greetings….in the next update I’ll add more control over the feed times (like I’ll add a 15 min, 20min and 30 min option).

      • Ivo

        Thank you so much Allan. You are really wonderful. Just one short
        question please. When my feed shows up on site under the title of the
        news is date of post. I wonder is there any possibility to move the date
        down, right next to the source? I feel like date of post is disturbing
        the title of the news so I would like to move it at the bottom of the
        news. Or is that only WordPress function? You can check the site if you like ( Site name is my e-mail). Thank you so much again

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi…the date (called the post_date) and it’s placement is not a function of the plugin, but how your theme constructs the blog posts and listing of the blog posts. For this, you would need to edit your theme pages.

          • Ivo

            Thank you Allan. I just upgraded to newer version of your plugin but now I have “read more” option that I would like to remove. I would like to have only Source option if that’s possible. Also once I enter the site when I scroll the page down I see quite a few posts that are repeated. I think that’s only when I enter the page. After when I stay at page it get better without repeat. Thank you

          • Ivo

            Hi Allan again. With this new version I have problem with first post. It get stuck on the first place and new feeds are changing only below that first post. I wonder can I change to older version until you fix this problem?

          • Ivo

            Hi Allan,
            I think the problem was in timing of feed. Feed was published but the time of feed was up in front. For example on RSS feed page time was 2pm but the feed was published at 1 pm. Thank you

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            What is the URL of your site and page where you are seeing this problem? Any issues with feed timing is due to the server…there is a fix for this in the plugin, as it shows in the attached.

          • Ivo

            Dear Allan,
            I talked with my web designer and he back up the plugin and fixed the time of feed in 20 minutes. No more option “read more” and I am quite glad for that. Thank you so much for your support. Unfortunately I don’t have advanced IT knowledge so I will leave all my website fixing to web designer. I am so grateful to you for this wonderful plugin

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Great…glad to hear it’s working. also, if the plugin is working for you, if you haven’t had a chance, take a second and rate the plugin by going to

            http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

            It helps other people know whether they should try out this free plugin or not.

            Best wishes,
            Allen

  • Sakshin

    Hi Allen. Importing the google news worked for a week but since yesterday nothing shows up? Only the message to come to this page? Something changed?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      nothing changed…I haven’t put up an update to the plugin in several weeks..so something with Google has changed.

  • Chaz

    Greetings. This is a great plugin and have used it before. However, I am having an issue. On “Shortcode Settings” I am receiving this error:

    Cannot open the file /home3/wftemplatesom/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/templates/

    Any assistance you can provide would be great! Thanks in advance Allen.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Chaz

      I haven’t seen this error before. It looks generic (no line number). Can you post a screen shot of what you’re seeing?

      • Chaz

        This message was originally HTML formatted. View in a HTML capable client to see the original version.rnrn Allen thank you for the prompt response. See screenshot below. In the error, it is looking at the wrong root. home3/wftemplatesom/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/templates/
        The “wftemplatesom” should not be there (from what I can make of the situation) home3/wfincom would be the more correct home directory.
        This is currently on a temporary URL for development. All other functions of the plugin seem to be working.

        —- Original Message —-
        From: “Disqus” notifications@disqus.net
        Sent: 2/20/2013 6:04:18 PM
        To: charleslightner@findlayoh.com
        Subject: [allenweiss] Re: RSS Multi Importer for WordPress

        Allen Weiss wrote, in response to Chaz:

        Hi Chaz

        I haven’t seen this error before. It looks generic (no line number). Can you post a screen shot of what you’re seeing?

        User’s website

        Link to comment

        Chaz wrote:

        Greetings. This is a great plugin and have used it before. However, I am having an issue. On “Shortcode Settings” I am receiving this error: Cannot open the file /home3/wftemplatesom/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/templates/ Any assistance you can provide would be great! Thanks in advance Allen. —– Options: Reply with “Like” to like this comment, or respond in the body to post a reply comment.
        Stop receiving notifications

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Ok. I see the problem. Ill get back to inside an hour with a solution.

          • Chaz

            Allen that is great news. Thank you for the support.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          I just you an email with the file to replace that should solve this problem…let me know if it doesn’t.

  • Malin D

    Hi
    I have one question about using the plugin.
    Can I use a PHP shortcode to put the feeds in any place I like? I have no possibility to use the [shortcode].

    Regards Malin

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      if you want to use this using php shortcode, do this

      echo do_shortcode(‘[wp_rss_multi_importer]‘);

      • Malin D

        Thank you Allen, that work just fine! :-)

  • Chas

    I am having trouble using a google URL. It uses quotes around the search phrase. The plugin is removing the quotes. Do you have a solution for this?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      What is the URL? fyi, it’s not the plugin, but simplepie (which handles the url feed and needs the url to be urlencoded). Likely it would work if you put %22 where the double quotes are (instead of the double quotes)

  • http://www.thedailydigest.org TheEditor

    Besides REALLY enjoying using your importer, I have only one suggestion. Perhaps make an option to customize the “…read more” text for the imported article.

    If you would be so good as to point me to the template where I can modify that text, I would really appreciate it.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi…you can change it in the import_posts.php file where it shows on the attached. In the future, I’ll make this an option you can configure on the settings page.

      • http://www.thedailydigest.org TheEditor

        Thanks, Allen. I Actually found this and made it all caps for now. I appreciate the fast response!

  • JDR

    Just found this plugin last night and am evaluating it against what I currently use. A couple of questions:
    1) Is there a way to extract the image into a 150×150 image AND display it only as the theme “featured image” and have the full image appear on the post itself–unless I am missing something it seems to be that there is either no image, or the same image size both places
    2) on you tube feeds–all I want on the post display is the text, the video, and the source–just as if I had posted it manually. But it pulls in a table with other data in it—the youtube count, the you tube ratings, and the youtube link—which converts to the embedded shortcode automatically only when I open the post. That’s fine, as I review them all before I post anyway and only want to post relevant videos, but would like to strip out all of the stuff in the tables, have a full size embedded video in the post, and still have the featured image on the excerpt (excerpt being defined as the part that displays on the theme’s front page).
    Thanks

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello, Regarding #1, as you can see in the attached you can assign the image (if there is an image) to only be the featured image. As for youtube feeds, the feed to post isn’t set up for that (at least I haven’t tested it on youtube feeds) so I can’t say yet what aspects of that feed will be preserved or not. I’ll check that out.

      • JDR

        Thanks, I look forward to your reply. My other reposter doesn’t have as many features as yours but it does handle the very basic youtube seamlessly…brings in the text and the link, which automatically converts into the embedded video.

  • test

    Hey this plugin is really sweet. Love it. Ok so quick question.. I am using the show-hide feature, and I was wondering if I can edit the code so when a person clicks on the headline it actually expands and shows the excerpt. I changed the [...] to Read article… so people can then click THAT, to read full article… I am using the default theme. Thanks :)

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      You can certainly take the default theme and change the code to do what you want. Just note that you’ll need to move around the code to make this work and then be sure to save the template (using the template options tab).

  • Nelson

    Hi Allen,

    My “feed to post” is set to remove posts in 7 days. How can I make a certain post not be removed? I want to keep some popular posts.

    Again.. Many Thanks… Your plugin is really GREAT…

    Nelson

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Nelson

      At this point, I don’t have a way to specify a post that won’t get deleted during the auto delete..unless you go into the meta_posts table and delete the meta_post…this isn’t a easy solution, but I would need to code a new feature to make it easy…maybe in a future release I will do that. Sorry I can’t do that now.

      Best wishes,
      Allen

      • Nelson

        Thanks for quick reply…. what about if I add/make a new post… but using same permalinks, title & content (different author/user) of the post I want to keep… would that work? Thanks..

        • Nelson

          Hi Allen… I realized the above “making a new post” is time consuming since I have quite a few posts to keep. I hope you can make an update. The idea is to separate/retain the popular posts. Sorry… I ask too much… :) I know the plugin is already Great in its current setup. Thanks a lot… Cheers!!!

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hello…ok..to this would require some programming which I’m not sure when I can make this happen…since it would require having an easy way to see what’s in the meta_posts table and then deciding what you want to keep (by deleting it form the meta_posts table). This is a non-trivial extension so will require me to carve out some time to make it work.

          • Nelson

            Thanks Allen… No worries… I just made my “remove Posts” set on 2 weeks… and will do manual post for popular ones… Again THANK YOU….

  • http://twitter.com/LECHAMPIONS LECHAMPIONS

    Hi Allen,
    your plugin is exactly what we were looking for but there is no way to make it work properly. We are experiencing some many problems: 1. DB crashed several times and do not know why; 2. it’s ok on Firefox, even if images are resized in a different format than expected; 3. in Explorer it doesn’t show… the message is “There is a problem with the feeds you entered. Go to our support page and we’ll help you diagnose the problem”… Unfortunately, we had to remove your widget as it messed up the whole homepage, does it conflict with other plugins?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Sorry to hear the plugin isn’t working for you…not sure what could be the problem…I would need to see the web site where this is happening and the Feeds you are using before I could even make a general guess what’s going on since I haven’t heard anybody else report something similar to your experience.

  • ZDportal

    Hello everyone!
    LIghtbox doesn’t work. How to fix it?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello, it would be helpful to see the page on your site where you say the lightbox isn’t working.

      • ZDportal

        Hi, Allen!

        It’s not just the lightbox. I use this great plugin as fundamental for my site. It’s my autoposter and sidebar widget. Autoposting is working fine (except lightbox), but in sidebar not that fine (not scrolling and no lightbox).

        Please, help!

        http://www.zdportal.net/

  • Gordon Smith

    Hi Allen, just started using the plugin and it’s fab. I have a request though, on my feed if there’s a special character in the header can it be set to ignore that post? I have attached a screenshot to show you what I mean. Only posts without an asterisk should show. Is this possible?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      What is the RSS URL what you are using that is showing this? I ma have a way to handle it if I can try it out on my development server.

      • Gordon Smith
        • gordon smith

          Hi Allen – Just wondering if you could point me in the right direction if this will be possible when you get a minute. Much appreciated.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            Hi Gordon…it looks like this will be more involved that It thought…if you tell me whether you’re using the Feed to Post or Shortcode, I can send you a file with a line of code that will eliminate any posts that have that * character in the title.

          • gordon smith

            Thanks Allen, I’ve been using the shortcode up to now. Bit of a newbie I’m afraid.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok…what template are you using for the shortcode (is it the default template)?

          • gordon smith

            It is within the “Modernize” premium template.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            actually, I meant if you go under shortcode settings in my plugins admin, you’ll see a drop down menu where you can choose a template.

          • http://www.facebook.com/SmithDesignSolutions Gordon Smith

            Hi Allen, Sorry my replies weren’t showing, hence the multitude of replies. I’m using your standard template for posts.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            ok…contact me using the contact form on this site and I’ll send you a revised template.

          • gordon smith

            Modernize premium template.

          • http://www.facebook.com/SmithDesignSolutions Gordon Smith

            Modernize premium template. thanks

          • http://www.facebook.com/SmithDesignSolutions Gordon Smith

            ‘modernize’ premium template thanks

  • http://www.facebook.com/jeremyalyea1 Jeremy Alyea

    I love this plugin. Is there a way to limit how many posts are imported per day PER feed. There are some feeds where I would like to import every story. There are other feeds where I would not want more than two stories per day. If there were a way to setup campaigns, then for each campaign you could designate the feed, # of stories to import, and how long to keep the stories. Then have multiple campaigns running simultaneously. Some of the feeds imported, I would like to have stay permanently, whereas external content I would like deleted the next day.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello, as for limiting the feed posts per feed, you can do this by using an external cron, but unfortunately now the number of posts per feed is not available. I’m going to have an update where you can indicate which posts to stay permanently, which is something others have asked about..so I should have something for that fairly soon (once I find the time :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/Anders.C.Pettersson Anders Pettersson

    Very nice plugin and most things I have a need for (at this moment) seems to work great.
    One small thing that I would like to see though is this.
    In the widget for the standard RSS feed in WordPress one get a “preview” when hovering the link of the post headline, would this be possible also with your plugin?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      The plugin isn’t currently set for mouseover, but I’ll add this feature in a future update.

  • Chet_G

    I’m sure you’ve answered this question, but I can’t seem to find it, sorry. I can’t get thumbnails to show on any of my sites. Here’s one example, on the sidebar here — http://thefakebasketball.com/ using the rss feed http://thefakefootball.com/feed/

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      do you have the widget checked off correctly, as shown (I just used your feed and had no problems bringing in the image when i checked off the box)

      • Chet_G

        I do. It must be my theme.

  • http://www.facebook.com/phrozen Mikael Berglund

    Hi Allen!

    I am having problems with the filter function and would love your help! I am using this feed: http://www.aftonbladet.se/rss.xml (tried several different) and my categories -> include filter is set to ‘vedevåg’ and I am getting “There is a problem with the feeds you entered…”. If I remove the filter the feeds are working fine.

    The widget-version does not complain but seems to ignore the filter (just shows all), its the [wp_rss_multi_importer category="1"] that gives the error message.

    My dumpthis if it helps: http://codebin.org/view/eceb5c5e

    Best regards Mikael.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Mikael
      Thanks…the dumpthis is helpful. Let me try out the feed with the filter and see what is going on. I’ll get back to you after I tried it out.

      Allen

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Ok..I found the problem..it turns out the filter doesn’t look at the titles but instead at the content…but there is no content in your RSS feed (just a photo). I’m changing the code to also look at the title which should solve this problem. It will be changed in the update I will be launching this week. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

  • dgeekess

    We want only one story from each feed, we have set up 5 feeds and get 4 stories from one feed and then only one story from another feed How to control the amount of feeds, we started out using the DEFAULT template and the activity was as stated above, then we went to utilize the shortcodes and categories system and set up only one feed per category, It still brings in 5 stories from one and either 1 on none from the others. Thanks for any Help

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Dud you use the thisfeed parameter as shown on the shortcode parameters tab?

      • dgeekess

        Thank you that helped, I think I understand now that i can use a few of the shortcodes together on a page, in order to get what I want. Do these shortcodes override some of the settings? Plus I have to choose between using Shortcode Settings or Feed to Post (settings) correct? How to know this is the choice I have made? Is that where the “thisfeed” comes in? Is that how I am then choosing to use the Feed-To-Post option? So then in order to choose an img size that is smaller than 150px, I have to add an additional shortcode to clarify that choice, right? Can images go smaller than the default? Thank you for all your help!

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Yes, if you use a shortcode parameter that also has the same parameter in the settings, the shortcode paramater will override. There are no shortcode parameters for the Feed to Post option.

  • Josue

    Awesome plugin!
    Is there a way to import the tags from the rss when using feed to post?
    Thanks.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Are there tags in clearly defined xml tags in the feed?

      • Josue

        They are defined as category. See attached screenshot

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok…I can add this to a future update assuming simplepie (which I believe is the case) can pick out this tag.

          • Josue

            That would be awesome, thanks!

  • wayne

    Hi Allen

    I am getting on ver well with this plug in it really is excellent:

    However, please can you help me?

    I have it set for Feed to Post but have a problem with images…

    I have attached a screenshot of the settings and when the RSS Importer pulls in a new feed is assigns the right default image and all is ok. The problem is that in my wordpress media library the RSS Importer is creating duplicate images of the deflault image, ie it seems like one per post, which is filling up my media library and I have pages of duplicate images.

    How do I set it so that I uses the same image rather than duplicating?

    thanks

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      on the category tab, do you have a different default image for each category?

      • wayne

        Yes I do, each category has a default image

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok..well, at this point, there is no way to first see if that exact same image was used and that attach that again to another post (without uploading the image)…this is just a limitation of wordpress unless I can find some other way around this.

    • Norm

      You should set “Select how to use the image” set to “Excerpt Only”? That worked for me.

      • wayne

        Hi Norm,

        Thanks for replying as well.

        Just to clarify, so you have a featured for each category and use it as Excerpt Only, that way it keeps your media library from growing into a monster?

  • Wayne

    Hi Allen
    I have set up to feed to post, and use category image, see the attached screenshot, all works fine, the issue I have is that the plugin creates duplicates of the category image in my image library can I stop it from doing this please as it creates loads of them

    • wayne

      Sorry I thought my last post did not register

  • Norm

    Your RSS Feed to Post feature is still the backbone of my site. I am choosing to scale the images that get pulled down to 150 px in width. One problem I am having though is that only the first image gets scaled down and the remaining images get displayed in their original large size. The which often crossed over the borders of the box containing the post. Is there any way to scale down all pictures that are pulled to the same size?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Ok..here’s the problem…the code I’ve written is set up to handle any resizing except the first image it finds. This would require a rewrite of the plugin. Sorry about that.

      • norm

        Ok. If they can’t be resized is there any chance of a future update excluding all pictures except the first?

  • Norm

    All YouTube channel RSS feeds are not formatted in posts very well by Feed to Post. Is it possible to fix that?

    • Norm
      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        This can be fixed using the CSS (template.css file) and changing the selector for .ftpimagefix – try adding some padding.

        • Norm

          Thanks Allen. I’m glad to know it can be fixed but, sorry I don’t quite understand what to do re. your instruction. Is there anywhere you can point me so that I know exactly what I’m doing?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            what is the url of a specific page that has this problem?

  • Norm

    Hi Allen, Thanks for you help with other issues. The one big issue I’m having is that Feed to Post is posting half of the feeds that get imported twice. I am pulling about 6 feeds every 15 minutes with Feed to Post and that’s working fine but perhaps half of them are duplicates of those imported from the last pull. I am using the latest version of your plugin and I see that a previous update addressed this issue of duplication of posts but for some reason even though I have the latest update the posts are still getting duplicated for me. .Any ideas?

  • WDB

    I have set up the feed on my site, and it works well, except that I run a microblog (like twitter), and even though I’ve set the feed to post type as “status” (that is, microblog) they keep publishing as “standard”. As you can see from http://polliter.com, this doesn’t match what I’m trying to do. Any help would be appreciated.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi, Not sure what you are asking. First, the type “status” is there because someone asked for it – it’s a custom post type – unless you have a custom post type named status. Do you have a custom post type of microblog (and if so, where did you set this up)?

      • WDB

        The site has four custom post types: standard, link, quote and status. On the Feed To Post page it says “default Post Format” that I have set to the type “status”. But feed-posts are not being saved as “status” post type, they’re being saved as “standard” post type.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok..I’ll look into this and see what the problem is.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok…if you go into the import_posts.php file, look for the line that says this:

          $post_id = wp_insert_post($post);

          and add this right below it

          set_post_format( $post_id , $post_format);

          that will give you what you’re looking for.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jcroasdaile Joseph Croasdaile

    Awesome plugin Allen! I sent you an email, but I was wondering if there could be a way via short code to offset the posts within a feed. This way I could really customize the look / display of the content.

    Thanks and cheers!

    • http://www.facebook.com/jcroasdaile Joseph Croasdaile

      btw while looking at Simple Pie it looks like there is a offset feature in that… and on your plugin I see utilizes Simple Pie. I just don’t see any offer reference in ur code tho.

      https://github.com/statamic/Plugin-SimplePie

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        sure, I can provide an offset (since I’m using simple pie). If you want to try this out, let me know and I’ll send you a beta version of my next update to try this out.

  • William

    How do you switch off (or change) the hyperlinks on the title on the widget? Currently they just point to the home page where I have the widget running. Thanks

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Can you show me a page where this is happening?

      • Gordon (I work with William)

        Hi Allen, here’s a screenshot thanks. The titles all hyperlink to the page they appear on. If we could either switch them off or set a specific url? Thanks again

        • http://twitter.com/allenweiss Allen Weiss

          What is the URL of the page this is from?

  • Radek

    Hi, I have a problem to add this feed: http://ihned.cz/?p=000000_tagsRSS&overviewtag_id=1270. I am afraid it is caused by brackets in URL. Is there any way to overcome this via some hacks?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      If you put that feed into the address bar on a firefox browser, you’ll see that there is nothing in that feed. It may not be the brackets, just that the feed is empty.

      • Radek

        Hi, thanks for lightning reply :) . The link was not pasted correctly in comments box. If you visit this page: http://byznys.ihned.cz/tagy/reklama-1270/ and click on the small RSS icon on the page, you can see RSS feed URL with some brackets. It is rss for tag “reklama”. When I copy paste this URL into plugin’s Feed section and save, brackets disappear…

  • Alex

    Hi great plugin, bit I have a problem with the
    SMOOTH SCROLL Template. The look is wrong and in Firebug it shows an error like “Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method ‘smoothDivScroll’ ….”
    What do I wrong?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      I can’t tell anything from what you said about the problem..can you post the url where this is happening so I can see it for myself?

      • Alex

        Hi Allen you can see it on my testpage http://www.repro.at/feeds-und-mehr Thanks alex

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Hi Alex…just took a look…I’m thinking there might be a conflict with your theme or some other plugin…can you try disabling other plugins that might use javascript to see if this solves the problem?

  • Dee

    Hi, I’m am using your plugin, and I notice each time a post come in from one source site I use and when changes or updates are done from that post source site, it keeps pulling in the same feed lots of times to my main site? Luckily have it set to Pending so these posts don’t hit live on on my blog. I’m using the “Feed to Post Setting”. I have created the category I want to post in, and selected the category of that post from my blog as well.

    Anyway to prevent having the same post from the source blog to stop being added everytime there is a change/update from that source blog onto my main blog I want to have it posted to? I hope you understand? Thanks,

    Dee

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      First, here is some background on how the Feed to Post works so you can understand how I prevent double posting of feeds.

      http://www.allenweiss.com/faqs/im-getting-double-posts-with-the-feed-to-post/

      If you’re not clicking the Fetch Feeds now button, there might be an issue with the feed itself. Can you post the url of the RSS feed so I can see if I can reproduce the problem?

      • Dee

        Hello,

        Thanks for responding.

        I have clicked on the “Fetch Feeds Now” button several times, assuming I would see the feed show up just below it. But even after I deleted those multiple duplicate feeds, they kept coming into my blog again and again anyways. Here is the link to the actual feed I’m sourcing from:

        http://www.empowernetwork.com/teamdee/blog/category/empower-network-tag/feed/

        Please let me know your thoughts about this and how to mitigate it if possible.

        Thanks,

        Dee

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          ok..first of all, do you control the RSS feed you are using? I’m asking because my plugin looks for the guid tag (which is for the permalink), which you have a link for in the RSS feed, but it also says this is not a permalink.

          • Dee

            Hi, Allen,

            Actually I do not, it’s on a subdomain wp multi platform through the company.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            hmm..well, the rss feed is not showing a unique link (in the guid tag, which is where the unique link typically resides), which is why you’re getting duplicates. What is shows is this:

            http://www.empowernetwork.com/teamdee/?p=43

            note how is says isPremaLink=”false”, thus it’s telling the RSS reader there is no unique link. I’ll see if there is a way to work around this, but it may take awhile.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            actually, I just put your feed on my hostgator site, and as you can see here:

            http://www.screencast.com/t/0nT6OfVfJWI

            I don’t get any duplicates when I click on the Fetch Feed Now…I’ll let this run all night and confirm tomorrow whether or not it’s working as it should.

          • Dee

            Thank you for showing me that! Maybe it is doing that because I changed my “TimeZone” settings from the standard settings of UTC Time switched to Chicago time? I also have this set to Chicago time from the source site as well? Do you think this may be causing the double issue perhaps? That’s the only other change I recall making when setting up the feed, etc…

            Thanks,

            Dee

  • cml

    hello,

    great plugin in deed but I cannot find shortcode for displaying single feed posts – is that possible?

    best regards

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      put feed into it’s own category, then use the shortcode for that category, like [wp_rss_multi_importer category="1"]

      • cml

        what I want to achive is to create x post (x = n of feeds) which every one describes one feed (and you can rate it) so I wanted to put couple of recent posts below – following your advice i’ll have to create category for every single feed I have

  • Foulplay

    Hey Allen,
    i really love your plugin because its easy to use and also it is one of the most amazing plugin i have seen on wordpress i have a tiny problem though that my auto post feed feature is not working due to some reason can u help me out!!!!!!!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      what do you mean it is not working?

  • vampire

    love your plugin, best out there by far…IF ONLY YOU HAD THE OPTION OF HAVING THE FEEDS STAY OUT OF THE “ACTIVITY STREAM” HAVE A SITE THAT I NEED THE FEEDS BUT HAVE THEM BLOCKED FROM THE SITE GLOBAL ACTIVITY STREAM!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      are you using buddypress or some other plugin that grabs the posts and puts them site wide? Perhaps you can set these posts to come in as a category on your blog and make sure that category isn’t putting the posts into the activity stream.

      • vampire

        how do i go about doing that? i have looked from heaven to hell and i cannot find anything that solves this…i have the category isolated but i have no function in the BP or WP activity stream functions to do so…

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Having not worked with BuddyPress for a few years, I have no idea.

  • tuba

    how to set thumbnail picture from rss feed

  • noku

    Hi Allen, thank you for your useful plugin. I had a problem when fetch feeds :Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in…………….wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/inc/import_posts.php on line 139
    Thank you

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      What is the RSS feed that you are trying to pull in?

  • Wayne

    hi when using feed to post is there a way of setting tags as well?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      go into the category tab and you’ll see there is a way to add tags to any category – assign your feed to a category and add tags that way

  • Tuba

    Dear admin,

    I can not see picture from rss feed. How to show image of rss feed? please help me

    • tuba

      Here is showed only contents

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        unless I know the RSS feed you’re using, I can’t help.

  • Daniel

    Hi Allen,

    Im just installed your plugin in my wordpress http://index.com.my/asiatvlive/?page_id=235
    . How can i split the feed into next pages.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      did you turn on pagination

  • Daniel

    Good day Allen,

    How can i split the feed into different pages. i found that the feed took very long and might be helpful if it can continue to different pages

  • aj

    Allen – awesome concept – and I had it work one time, however, I haven’t had it work a second time. I am trying feed to post using a feed that updates once per week. I believe the problem is somehow with the feed not refreshing but I am not sure. This is the feed: http://pray4vn.org/feed/ . When I saw that a recent post from that feed had not shown up, I stuck the feed url in my browser and the recent post also didn’t show up there (although it had arrived in my personal feed reader). So I just refreshed my browser and the latest post showed up in the feed. I’ve tried multiple time from the feed to post tab to “click to fetch feed now” but to no avail. Assuming that the problem is with the feed and not the plugin but I appreciate any input you might have.

    • aj

      OK – sorry – now I see that the the post was pulled in, but the time stamp on the post was set to 1970. When I look at the feed from the website (listed above) it has today’s time and date. Checked the general settings on my site and saw that the site was set to UTC time, so not sure if that was the problem or not?

  • Riversatile

    Hi Allen,

    I have two categories, the first displays correctly images on the left and the description on the right. But on the other category, it seems images are not fetched correctly, the images don’t display. I saw that if I choose “give me everything” parameter, then the image are there ! But this cause a bad display on the first category (too long data).

    Here is my question:

    Is it possible to specify excerpt lenght using the shortcode ?

    Like that, I will be able to put “50″ on the first category, and “give me everything” on the other.

    Thanks for your support
    Riversatile.

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    just join us at the biggest chance ever!!!! organogoldeurope.blogspot.com

  • http://www.facebook.com/louisa.leontiades Louisa Leontiades

    Is there a reason why the post title repeats itself? A setting I can turn off perhaps? Thanks.
    The Contractor’s Escape”>The Contractor’s Escape

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      if this is in the feed itself, there is nothing that can be done…did you look at the RSS url to see? Send me the the rss url and I can take a look.

  • Ivica

    Hi. This plugin have everything that I need but….

    When I install it on my page I get fatal error

    Fatal Error (hide)

    The theme has encountered a problem that it cannot recover from. Please use the following information to try to resolve the problem.
    Error Code:php_code_error:64:C:inetpubcrofutsalwwwwp-contentpluginswp-rss-multi-importerwp-rss-multi-importer.php:633:require(): Failed opening required ‘C:inetpubcrofutsalwwwwp-contentpluginswp-rss-multi-importer/templates/admin_init.php’ (include_path=’.;C:phppear’)Message:A fatal code error occurred.

    If you are unable to fix this problem, please copy all the text on this screen and send it to support@ithemes.com.

    Debug Data:Array
    (
    [0] => Array
    (
    [file] => C:inetpubcrofutsalwwwwp-contentpluginstabber-widgetlibclassesit-error.php
    [line] => 123
    [function] => fatal
    [class] => ITError
    [type] => ::
    [args] => Array
    (
    [0] => php_code_error:64:C:inetpubcrofutsalwwwwp-contentpluginswp-rss-multi-importerwp-rss-multi-importer.php:633:require(): Failed opening required ‘C:inetpubcrofutsalwwwwp-contentpluginswp-rss-multi-importer/templates/admin_init.php’ (include_path=’.;C:phppear’)
    [1] => A fatal code error occurred.
    )

    )

    [1] => Array
    (
    [file] => C:inetpubcrofutsalwwwwp-contentpluginstabber-widgetlibclassesit-error.php
    [line] => 150
    [function] => handle_error
    [class] => ITError
    [type] => ::
    [args] => Array
    (
    [0] => 64
    [1] => require(): Failed opening required ‘C:inetpubcrofutsalwwwwp-contentpluginswp-rss-multi-importer/templates/admin_init.php’ (include_path=’.;C:phppear’)
    [2] => C:inetpubcrofutsalwwwwp-contentpluginswp-rss-multi-importerwp-rss-multi-importer.php
    [3] => 633
    )

    )

    [2] => Array
    (
    [function] => it_error_shutdown
    [args] => Array
    (
    )

    )

    )

    This I get when put a code into post. Widget broke my skin. What could be a reason.

    Best regards!

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      hello..I’m not sure what is going on here as there is no admin_init.php in the template folder and there appears to be a problem with the slashes in the url it is trying to open (even though there is no admin_init.php there). are you using the most recent version of the plugin?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hello…I think I found the problem for this..let me know if you want the solution.

  • ivica

    Any ideas for my problem?? I try some other RSS plugins and they work just fine but yours plugin have great functions and I wont to use it. Why my site crash??

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      I’m not sure…I would just delete my plugin and use another plugin since something is going on with your server which I cannot fix.

      • Ivica

        OK tnx for response. Maybe because I have 3.52 wordpress??

      • ivica

        Just for the record. I reactivated plugin and leave some options default and now it’s working fine. I must say I’m impressed and I will donate for sure! Best regards from Croatia!

  • gordon smith

    Our feed has stopped working on our website all of a sudden both widget and post. I’m told nothing has changed at the feed source
    and I can view the feed elsewhere okay. I’ve even tried updating the plugin to the latest version. Any help much appreciated. Feed address
    https://jbg.hanlonsonline.co.uk/rss/vacancies.ashx?type=atom&limit=100&key=92A06053DB9144368EFB06C036A2A421

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Well, you might try using an earlier version of the plugin, which you can get here:

      http://wordpress.org/support/topic/feed-to-post-do-not-work-after-update-to-262

      there is a bug in the most updated version that has created problems in the feed to post that I’m still working on.

    • gordon smith

      I was wondering if it was anything with it being https but it worked perfectly until today. Thanks

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        it could be a some servers don’t allow you to import feeds from secure sites.

        • gordon smith

          It stopped working before we upgraded so it does point to something changing on the host perhaps. I only upgraded to see if it would fix the problem, which unfortunately it didn’t. Thanks again

  • Mike Ciolino

    Hi – The following text line insists on appearing on each post and other than altering the plugin template code (which gets reset on every plugin update) I cannot for the life of me figure out how to alter or suppress it.

    “Tue, Mar 26, 2013 8:47:00 PM, Continue reading at the source”

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      First of all, if you’re using the shortcode, then all you need to do is edit the template, then go to template options and save the template…then when there is an update you go to template options and hit restore. If you’re using the feed to post, then you can change the text as shown on the attached. Finally, this may be embedded in the RSS feed itself – at which time, there is nothing my plugin can do.

  • sdesign

    Is there a way that I can show the first post from a feed with the image and excerpt and then have the other 4 show as bulleted titles with link?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      I’m assuming you are using the shortcode..if you know a bit of php programming you can take one of the templates and have it do exactly what you’re are looking for.

      • sdesign

        I do know some but what I have tried does not seam to work could you give me a little pointer I am using the Short code //>More”]’); ?>//

        And am using the templet clean_separated.php

        Thank you

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jesse-Humphrys/545013280 Jesse Humphrys

    How do i setup feed to post with custom title (e.g. todays date – Monday 1st April, instead of title of article/blog)

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      look in the feed to post admin panel and check the box as shown in the attached image. However, you need to make sure you’re server is set to the right time, so you should first make sure your wordpress setting is set to your local time and you can also put your location in the box (also shown in the attached).

  • http://twitter.com/chewbone Joseph

    I was happily using your plugin for a week then after a feed-to-post transaction the dashboard went blank.

    I removed all plugins and got the dashboard back, moved your plugin back in and it went blank again.

    I removed the plugin again and also all rss_* options and your post meta entries and reinstalled the plugin but the dashboard went blank again, which should not happen since this is a fresh clean install with no leftover database data. Hmmm, I changed theme from Suffusion to Twenty-twelve and the dashboard is now happy. Any ideas how to chase down the conflict with your plugin and the Suffusion theme? They seemed to coexist until new posts were added.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      You must be kidding….you think I’d help the same person who trashed my plugin.

  • sdesign

    Is their a way with short code to change the Excerpt length?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Its in the shortcode settings panel

      • Sdesign

        I am aware of that one but is there a way to change it by short code? I want to have some of the pulls show just 20 words but others show 55 or maybe more.

        Thank you

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Unfortunately, right now the plugin doesn’t allow for that level of customization…that would require a rewrite of the plugin logic…maybe something I’ll do at a later time.

  • Jason Elsom

    Thanks Allen. Very useful. On the Export RSS tab, could you configure so that we can export rss by category? Would be really useful thanks.

  • emilo

    This plugin seems to be a perfect fit for me. Love it so far.

    But I can’t seem to change the length of the excerpt or show a photo that does appear in the rss feed. I’ve read through several pages of help options, but I’m not seeing a fix that works for me. Help?

    http://daytrippintexas.com/texas-blogs-of-interest/

    Also wondering if there is a way to may the template responsive? I am using the boxes template.

    Thanks.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Right…that requires a change in the template..you would need to customize the boxes template to include an image and change the excerpt length…do you know how to do that?

      • emilo

        Can I do this from the dashboard that comes with the plugin? Or do I need to edit the php file? If php file, can you direct me to the right file and I’ll see if I can do it?

        Also, what about being responsive? Do-able?

        Thanks.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          you would need to go into the boxes template (boxes.php in the templates folder).. i have no idea about making this responsive..it depends on what you want responsive to be (change due to size of the device people are using? If so, this is not doable, but should be a function of your theme)

          • emilo

            I don’t know how to add the image part to boxes.php. Help?

          • emilo

            You said” “you would need to customize the boxes template to include an image.” Can you tell me the code to add to the boxes.php. I thought this was to be done via the dashboard, however that does not seem to do the trick. Thanks.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            go into the boxes.php template and change the line that looks like this

            $readable .= ‘ ‘.showexcerpt($items["mydesc"],15,$openWindow,1,$items["mylink"],$adjustImageSize,$float,$noFollow,$items["myimage"]).”;

            to this

            $readable .= ‘ ‘.showexcerpt($items["mydesc"],0,$openWindow,0,$items["mylink"],$adjustImageSize,$float,$noFollow,$items["myimage"]).”;

          • emilo

            Thanks! That did it. I changed the first 0 to 20 because I wanted some text from the blog post, but otherwise i think this works like a charm. Thanks.

  • ThirdPotato

    Hello,

    I’m using a feed from Deviantart to incorporate my Deviantart gallery into my site. The images are tiny thumbnails, however, and even when I change the maximum size in the plugin’s settings, it just stretches the thumbnails out and makes them grainy. But I know Deviantart’s feed thumbnails can get bigger since it shows up bigger here: http://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=gallery%3Afyuvix%2F42926913&type=deviation

    My second question is: Is there a way I can get it so that when you click the image, it directs to the image full-sized, but not the website page it currently redirects to? I want it to redirect to the image-location.

    Here’s an example of what it looks like currently: http://tobylotak.com/testfeed/

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      ok..if you contact me using the form on this site I can send you a file that should fix this…of course, it will only work on this feed because the feed has multiple image enclosures and the plugin always gets the first one, but you want the second or third one.

  • Steve Lopez

    Hi Allen,

    Fantastic plugin and perfect for my needs. Thank you for your wonderful work. :)

    One little minor bug I’ve noticed is that when it imports the feed and converts them to posts it seems to stop when it reaches a registered symbol ® . In other words what is happening to one rss item is that the first few lines of the item appear in the respective post but only up until the registered symbol appears in the text and no further text appears after the symbol.

    Has anyone else stumbled upon this? Or able to shed some light onto how this could be happening?

    Many thanks,

    Steve

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Steve…could you provide an example RSS feed where you find this happening?

  • Andreza

    Hello,
    I love this plugin. I`m using some feeds that do not provide images. So, I would like to know if there is a way to get the images from the google images automatically.

    Thank you very much and congratulations for the plugin.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Thank you! Unfortunately the plugin can’t grab images from somewhere automatically. What you can do is find a image for the category the feed is assigned to and make that the default image (on the categories tab).

      • Andreza

        Thank you for you quick reply :)

      • http://www.facebook.com/andreza.vieira.944 Andreza Vieira

        Do you know any solution to grab images from somewhere (google images or flickr) automatically, in cases where the feed dos not provide images? I need different images for the news (according to the title), therefore I can`t use default images for category. Please, help me.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          no…I don’t…that would be very difficult to pull off since it would involve scraping google images, etc, or using some api and doing a matching function…maybe some other developer has figured this out.

  • Alex Gutierrez

    I like the Scroll template is there anyway to increase the size of the feed ie increase the number of feeds scrolling and showing at the same time?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Sure..go into the template called vertical_scroll.php and change the parameter as shown here.

  • PCDMicha

    the best template for RSS on WordPress. But: Is their a way to choose another template folder? Every update kills our custom templates.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      yes…that’s why there is the template options tab…go to that area, name the template you made and hit save (that saves it to the database)…then after an update hit restore.

  • http://twitter.com/GuatemalaFacts Guatemala Facts

    There is a lot of power in this plug in. Thank you for your work.

    Guatemala Fac ts

  • PCDMicha

    Ok, but we use as default the simple bullet view and only on some pages another, custom view with the shortcode mytemplate.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      First, thanks for the donation. Yes, at this point I only figured out a way to store one custom template. May need to look for an alternative way so more customized templates can be stored. Thanks

  • PCDMicha

    We donate for the great software. Hope you will get the money.

  • Andreza

    Other question: Can I get the feeds from youtube channel and watch them inside my website? I don’t want to open the youtube website, but show the video in my onw website.
    Thanks.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Yes. If the feed comes from YouTube that should work. It will show in a lightbox though

  • http://www.facebook.com/andreza.vieira.944 Andreza Vieira

    Is there limit of feeds and category feed? i have more than 200 feeds rss and 200 category! is there any problem?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi
      Are you going to be using the shortcode or the feed to post?

      • http://www.facebook.com/andreza.vieira.944 Andreza Vieira

        I`m using feed to post.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Ok…then that shouldn’t be a problem

          • http://www.facebook.com/andreza.vieira.944 Andreza Vieira

            Ok, thank you very much. I`m very happy with your plugin and very satisfied with this perfect and quick support.

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            great… p.s.
            If the plugin is working for you, if you haven’t had a chance, take a second and rate the plugin by going to

            http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/

            It helps other people know whether they should try it or not.

  • http://www.facebook.com/andreza.vieira.944 Andreza Vieira

    How can I remove a categorie in session categories?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      currently that isn’t possible..you can just reuse the category or just give it a name of NONE and just don’t assign any feeds to it.

  • Joseph

    Is there a way to get the canonical link instead of the alternate link for atom? The following example is for an entry from blogspot, the alternate link is google’s cached content, I’d like to display the original link defined with the canonical rel attribute.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Unless you change the code in the plugin to pick up these links, it’s not currently an available option in the plugin

      • Joseph

        where in the code do you interface with simplepie? I’d llke to monkey around with this

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          Depends. If its the shortcode then go to the main file else import_posts.php

          • Joseph

            Thom Hartmann recently rapped on mindfullness, it’s fascinating, something that is so primal and powerful but not in the scope of the vast majority of humanity

  • al

    Is there a way to have the page auto refresh when there is a new feed?

  • http://www.facebook.com/andreza.vieira.944 Andreza Vieira

    Hi,

    In my item list I would like to show only the featured image and the title, how can I hide the excerpt?

    I tried the plugin configuration “HTML and Image Handling” but no success.

    Thanks.

  • Guest

    Hello,

    When I transform the images of the posts into thumbnails, in my itens listing the thumbnail image appears attached to a small text ending with a ” />. I show a picture illustrating an example. Do you know the reason for that?

    Thanks.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      no I don’t..it must be either in the feed itself or something you did. My plugin doesn’t put in a that character.

      • ramlal tr

        am using wp 3.4 and your plugin version is 2.64 facing an error what ever short code used theese error will be shown on my page

        Warning: require() [function.require]: Unable to access C:xampphtdocsfilesestatewp-contentpluginswp-rss-multi-importer/templates/admin_init.php inC:xampphtdocsfilesestatewp-contentpluginswp-rss-multi-importerwp-rss-multi-importer.php on line 633

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          are you running wrodpress on a windows platform?

  • http://www.facebook.com/andreza.vieira.944 Andreza Vieira
  • joeseph

    SQL error when multipple single quotes in title (need to escape?)

    WordPress database error: [You
    have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to
    your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near
    's_super_awesome_musical_happy_time/dr._bill's_super_awesome_musical_happy_time_2'
    at line 1]

    select post_id from ciq_postmeta where meta_key =
    ‘rssmi_source_link’ and meta_value like
    ‘%https://s3.amazonaws.com/growradio/dr._bill’s_super_awesome_musical_happy_time/dr._bill’s_super_awesome_musical_happy_time_2013032500.mp3%’

    • joeseph

      that’s like, with https:// removed so this comment system doesn’t convert it to a link
      ‘%s3.amazonaws.com/growradio/dr._bill’s_super_awesome_musical_happy_time/dr._bill’s_super_awesome_musical_happy_time_2013032500.mp3%’

      • joeseph

        i give up

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          let me see what’s going on…what is the RSS feed that is causing this?

  • Norm

    Hi Allen! As I have many bloggers/user profiles on my site (I
    would imagine that many have more than one user) it would be awesome if it was
    possible to assign the various RSS feeds that are pulled to their respective
    user profiles.

    Currently, on the “Feed to Post” page you can
    assign the feeds that get pulled to one user id but it would be great if there
    was instead a way to assign each feed on the “Feeds” page to its user id. In
    that way each blogger could have their feed assigned to their own user
    profile. Any way you can accomodate it?

    • Norm

      Hi Allen do you have any thoughts on this

      • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

        it’s possible, but only with a completely new version of the plugin that is still in beta…if you want to try this out (realizing it’s beta and may not work), you can let me know if you want to try it out.

        • Norm

          Thanks Allen! Yes, I would be very interested to try this out. Will this version of the plugin eventually replace the existing one or is it a separate plugin?

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            It is a major update for this plugin.

          • Norm

            That’s excellent news. I look forward to that. Do you have a rough ETA for this update? I have a live community so it may be risky testing ithe beta on them unless you are pretty confident it’s safe to do so.

  • joeseph

    getting error during cron run:

    [12-Apr-2013 23:14:22] PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated
    949485568) (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in
    /home2/joeshid/public_html/chewbone/wp-includes/SimplePie/Item.php on
    line 1491

    Any ideas?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      if you’re using the shortcode and have a lot of feeds, this is a classic simplepie memory leak….the only way to solve this is trying out a beta test of my next version of the plugin that handles the shortcode feeds differently.

      • joeseph

        do you know how simplepie is caching? as I processed more and more feeds PHP allocated memory kept growing, I think it’s using transients for persistence but I can’t track where it’s at or how to release this memory. I’m maxed out at 1G memory under Bluehost,

        Before calling require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
        86120 allocated
        262144 allocated real
        115544 peak
        262144 peak real

        After WP inits:
        816745832 allocated
        948961280 allocated real
        816925912 peak
        948961280 peak real

        almost all this memory is grabbed in simplepie item.php where it loops and gathers old feed data, but I can’t figure out where simplepie is getting this old data from.

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          As I said, this only happens with a large number of feeds. Contact me using the form if you want try out the beta version that is intended to solve this problem.

  • ditto

    Hi Allen, I like your plugin very much but I have a problem… I don’t have a date on my rss feed items and your plugin automatically sorts them alphabetically even when I put the sort order to 3… Is there any way I can output the feed with just the original order? (no sorting)

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      hello…I’m not sure what you mean by putting the sort order to 3? That isn’t an option in the plugin.

  • Steve Nickson

    Hi Allen,
    Well after much buggering around I finally have your plugin working !
    I have to say that from what I now see this is truely an awesome little plugin & opens up huge possibilities.
    It appears that most of the issues I kept getting were due to a theme I was trying to use, because within 1 hour of switching to a basic theme like WordPress 2010 or 2011, it actually started working and pulled in the RSS feeds from a couple of my other sites.
    I do feel that a button should be provided to clear the cache, as when testing I found I was getting repeated messages saying the latest entries were posted, yet there was nothing there as they had previously been deleted. I ran into this issue many times !
    I Have a couple of questions on other aspects of this plugin,
    (1) When setting a time limit (life) on entries being pulled in, is this not going to cause numerous 404 errors to accumulate for the site that is displaying these entries..? Or is there some method in place to either redirect to the original source on deletion or at the very least to apply a 410 error code to the deleted link..?
    (2) I absolutely love the lightbox idea as this means there is no reason for a visitor to leave your site ! However is there anywhere were I can adjust the width of the lightbox / iframe so that there is no need to have a horizontal scroll bar..?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Steve
      The short answer here is that, assuming you are using the shortcode version of the plugin, there is a caching issue due to the way that simplepie (that reads the RSS feeds) and my plugin works. I have a beta version of the next update that will hopefully deal with the caching issue.

      In any event, yes, if you post stuff and then delete it it will throw 404 errors from searches, and there isn’t much I can do about that except tell people not to put the plugin on auto delete. As for the lightbox, that is something you’d need to do manually by editing the files (in particular, colorbox.css).

      Allen

      • Steve Nickson

        Hi Allen,
        Ok on my first question having browsed around the net a bit, it appears the best solution is to use another plugin for the age of the posts, there is one available apparently, that when a post reaches a certain age, it moves that post to a seperate category that remains hidden from the search engines & users, whether it actually sets a 301 redirect to the original source or not will have to wait until I’ve tested it out!
        On the light box question, thanks, I will take a look at that a little later and see if I can adjust it slightly.
        One other question while I’m here,
        I’m using the RSS to Post option so am not using any shortcodes, what I was wondering is are the settings that we set on the “RSS to Post” page applied to all incoming feeds, or can they be adjusted to suit individual feeds..?
        For example I have my own sites feeding into this at the moment & everything looks great, but when I add a feed from Google Alerts or say from fivefilters.org, the same settings do not work!
        So is there any way that settings can be applied to individual feeds …?
        Cheers Steve…

        • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

          regarding the first question, that’s exactly how my plugin works too..after so many days you can set it to draft mode, or whatever but it doesn’t send a 301…but it sounds like you found another plugin that works for you, so maybe that plugin can be used for all the other things you’re looking for…my plugin doesn’t set things to the individual feed level.

          • Taffy1957

            Hi Allen,

            Sorry to trouble you again but I’m still having trouble getting this to work !

            The only way I seem to be able to get it to post anything is if I go to the “feed to post settings” and then at the bottom of the page select a plugin category & then the matching post category, then hit save. If I then click the button to fetch the feed it will do so, but if I don’t carry out these steps it does nothing, even after waiting several hours..?
            I know you say there are issues with WP Cron, so I had the idea of creating a cron job in cpanel for each of my 7 feeds, but I cannot seem to find the command line to be used in the cron job..?
            Could you also point me in the right direction to where your code checks the age of a post as I’ll have a stab at getting it to redirect to the originating source on deletion as I think this approach would be far better than simply churning out endless 404 errors. Or another thought I had would be to redirect to the relevant catergory on deletion.
            One other thing if you don’t mind, could you direct me to where your code is picking up the source url & author. The reason being I tried a few Google Alerts & whilst it did pull in the feeds, everything is plastered with the label “Google Alerts”, which apart from not looking very good, I don’t like to give Google the attribution for work they did not create ! I did write a few lines of code for another plugin, that did manage to remove all reference to Google Alerts & to give the correct originating url for attribution, so I thought I’d have a stab at trying to get the code working with your plugin if you don’t mind..?
            Cheers Steve…

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            all the code for the feed to post is in the import_posts.php file – that’s where it picks up the url, author, etc.. As for the cron, this totally depends on the service you are using and I have no idea how it works for the hundreds of different cron services out there. Finally, I’m not sure about redirect it to the relevant category…that could be done programmatically if I understood better about this…is the central issue that you don’t want the post (upon deletion) to show up on the main blog but would rather relegate it to a category that exists (like an archive)?

          • Taffy1957

            Allen,

            as I already stated, I’m using cpanel (provided by my hosting service)
            Now I tried both ;
            http://www.mywpsite.com?rssmi_feedID=1
            and
            http://www.mywpsite.com?rssmi_catID=1

            (Which are what is listed in your instructions)

            and obviously both adjusted to my domain / website, however with both of these it returned constant errors saying “file not found”

            I don’t expect you to know or be aware of all the different cron services available, however of all the ones I have used in the past, they all requested a command line url (which is basically the file to run once triggered by the schedule). Sorry but I just cannot see how this could possibly become a different file simply by switching to a different cron service, therefore the command line url should be consistant regardless of the service being used.

            As for the redirect, I only mentioned that because that was my reason for asking where in your code it dealt with the expiring time & to be honest it is the least of my concerns at present!

            My main concern at present is in trying to get this to work correctly, as I did mention previously;

            “The only way I seem to be able to get it to post anything is if I go to the “feed to post settings” and then at the bottom of the page select a plugin category & then the matching post category, then hit save. If I then click the button to fetch the feed it will do so, but if I don’t carry out these steps it does nothing, even after waiting several hours..?”
            Yet you failed to even offer any advice as to what could be causing this..?
            I’m assuming that as it posts by manually triggering it, then it may well be the WordPress cron that is at fault and this is why I asked about the cron command line url, so that I could set up cron jobs to trigger each feed 15 minutes apart, in the hope that it would cure my current problem.
            Now if you do not know the correct settings & command line url to use with cpanel, can you at least give me the name of a cron service to use, that you do know the correct settings for..?
            Sorry if you think I’m a bit irritable, but I’ve been on this for 3 days now and don’t seem to be making much headway and yes I do realize that I could look elswhere & try different plugins, but I like this plugin, especially the way it displays in the lightbox (awesome), I’m just having problems getting it to work correctly.
            Cheers Steve…

          • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

            the only cron service I’ve used is this

            http://www.easycron.com/

            the fact is that all cron services have different settings (different command lines, different everything)

            Again, as I’ve said, the WP cron is what my plugin is based on….this appears to work for most people, but if it’s not working for you and the outside cron service isn’t working, then my best guess is that my plugin isn’t working on your server…which is something I have no control over.

  • Jose

    Hi, I’m trying to have a Youtube rss feed ( http://www.youtube.com/rss/search/mustang+gt+for+sale/filters=today&lclk=today) show up on one of my pages using the plugin but I get the following message: “There is a problem with the feeds you entered. Go to our support page and we’ll help you diagnose the problem.”

    When I visit the url feed via any regular browser, it works fine.

    Is there anything you recommend I do?

    Thanks,

    Jose

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss
      • Jose

        Thank you, Allen!

        I used the feed you provided and it works well, indeed. I’m wondering if the results can be sorted to show up chronologically?

        I’ll keep fidgeting with the code to see if I can get it to work.

        Thanks, again, for your assistance!

        • jose

          Got it working fine now, although I’m not sure what I did. The original feed was accepted and now all current videos are showing – and in chronological order!

          Outstanding plugin, Allen. Thank you for developing it.

          Jose

      • jose

        Hi Allen,

        Quick question: Is the RSS plugin set up to have the Youtube videos come out inside the pop up box?

        The reason I ask is because when I click on the feed links for Youtube, the videos do not show. The background greys out and the pop up rectangle does comes up, but the pop up shows a blank screen only.

        Any input is greatly appreciated.

        Thanks,

        Jose

  • Tailspin

    Hi Allen,

    Plugin says theres a problem on one of two pages and directs me here. Page with problem is http://www.workplace-evolutionaries.com/knowledge-base/. Page that works is http://www.workplace-evolutionaries.com/blog/.

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      What is the RSS feed for the page that isn’t working?

  • Tailspin
    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      right…but that link isn’t an RSS feed. You need to RSS url for the plugin to work.

  • Tailspin

    And thanks for your very prompt reply!

  • tailspin

    Hmmm, I didnt’ think it wan RSS link either, but that’s what Evernote ofrfers when you cl;ick on the RSS icon. I’ll dig deeper.

    Writing plugins would a lot more fun if you didn’t have stupid users wouldn’t it. ;-)

  • John Susko

    I am running my site(s) on HostGator and an experiencing no problems.

  • http://twitter.com/l_sullivan Larry Sullivan

    Thanks for the plugin. Right now the plug in is creating 5 separate posts (each with 1 article in it) from the rss feeds. How can I have the plugin create 1 post with the 5 articles in it. Also I would like to create posts each each category of rss feeds that I have have- is that possible?

    • http://www.marketingprofs.com/ Allen Weiss

      Hi Larry…well, this isn’t possible with my plugin…..each item in an RSS feed creates it’s own post…you can put feeds into categories, if that helps

  • http://twitter.com/l_sullivan Larry Sullivan

    Thanks for the info, now if I put have the results go to a page, not a post then it will show multiple feeds correct?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=598563285 Ortorovao Tiu Yee

    Hi Allen – From the looks of it – great plug