firstRSS provides outstanding RSS syndication in WordPress 2
Posted by JD on August 29th, 2006
firstRSS, by Chris Hatcher, is an outstanding plugin for syndicating (publishing) RSS feeds in your WordPress 2 pages.
Previously, I was using CaRP for this purpose on static PHP pages and dynamic WordPress 1.5 pages. It continues to be my script of choice for static PHP pages.
However, when upgrading several of my blogs, including Blog Feed Syndication and 21st Century Webhosting, from WordPress 1.5 to version 2, all my feed syndication died. I was using the plugin runPHP to execute CaRP commands in my blog pages, but it didn’t work when I upgraded the blogs.
I tested several solutions before I found firstRSS, which worked the best and was, by far, the easiest to use.
All you have to do is install the plugin in WordPress 2, activate it, and use a very simple call to list headlines or show full RSS feeds in your WordPress 2 pages. It is supposed to work in postings, too, but I have no need at this point for doing that and I have not tested it.
Converting from runPHP to firstRSS did require editing all the pages that were publishing remote RSS feeds, but it was easy to do, if a bit tedious.
I heartily recommend firstRSS to you if you want to publish RSS feeds in pages on your blogs powered by WordPress 2.
Thanks, Chris, for an elegant and easy-to-use way of syndicating these feeds.