I have for a long time sought to present rss feeds within pages on this blog. It was started by a desire to use my social bookmark service as additional links in some of the reference articles on this wiki. The page was started in Jun 2014. Here my notes, although this page was subject to a major re-write in 2020.
There are further notes on my original delicious solution, involving their script and code embed, on Delicious Linkrolls and how I attempted to recover the delicious bookmark file. (I gave up the delicious file, it was too big, and too old; too much was broken and now useless. )
This page has notes on all the plugins I have used/experimented with.
Feedzy RSS Feeds Lite
I installed this on my momentum blog, and it sort of works. Here are some links, I got it to render, but can’t get it to post pictures on my rss files and would like to access the element names to fiddle with the css.
- https://docs.themeisle.com/article/1130-how-to-use-feedzy-with-a-shortcode
I tested this with my linkedin.rss to on my momentum blog. I had some problems rendering the thumbnail images. I suspect the rss syntax. Here are some links,
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTXnmMlipmo
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/483675/images-in-rss-feed
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/705224/how-do-i-add-an-image-to-an-item-in-rss-2-0
My rss looks like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>dave levy's linkedin blog</title>
<description>dave levy's posts at linkedin pulse</description>
<link>http://davelevy.info/pulse/linkedin.rss</link>
<lastBuildDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 09:45:09 +0100</lastBuildDate>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 09:45:09 +0100</pubDate>
<item>
<title>Learnings of Bitcoin</title>
<link>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learnings-bitcoin-david-levy</link>
<description>On Bitcoin, the consensus mechanism, and money</description>
<media:content height="151" medium="image" url="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/08/23/upshot/up-econ/up-econ-moth.jpg" width="151"/>
<pubDate>28 JUL 2020 0900 +0100</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Doing Record Management well</title>
<link>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/doing-record-management-well-david-levy/</link>
<description>About Record Management, anti-crime and ISO standards</description>
<image>
<url>https://is.gd/MwPNtT</url>
<title>Doing Record Mangement Well</title>
<link>http://davelevy.info/pulse/linkedin.rss</link>
<description>About Record Management, anti-crime and ISO standards</description>
<height>81</height>
<width>141</width>
</image>
<pubDate>15 JUL 2020 10:00 +0100</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
RSS Shortcode
I have also used RSS Shortcode, and have implemented it on the About Feeds page. I am not sure why I discontinued with this, might have been it gave me nothing that JP-RSS-FEED did not, time to revisit as JP-RSS-Feed seems to have given up the ghost.
JP-RSS-FEED
I moved onto JP’s Get RSS Feed, a wordpress plugin. I planned to use this to replace my delicious linkrolls using the delicious rss location. The Valencia page failed with an error in this plugin. I have deactivated it.
See also my snip, Delicious Linkrolls but the Valencia call was aimed at the delicious feed.
It requires a shortcode/codesnip to invoke its parameters e.g
[jp-rss-feed
url="http://feeds.del.icio.us/v2/rss/davelevy/convoyswharf"
numitems="7" getdesc="50" ]
I should document this differently; the snip must be on one line, and no space between the [ & the ‘jp’.
There’s a few more parameters which are documented on their home page
RSS on page via short code
and now we have another RSS rendering widget,RSS via shortcode on page
I am not sure how I used this but it seems I wrote “this was found to be broken on 17th October 2016”.
I fixed the simplepie version of the RSS rendering engine, it errored on the obverse of the home page ; it works on my ex-deliciuious files, but not if named .rss, I changed it to .xml. e.g.
Bruxelles
- Art Hotel Siruon Place Rogier, North of the Grand, recommended in the Rough Guide. Looks interesting. NB This is the french language page; my client firewall has shagged the english language one.
- Sofitel Brussels Toison d'Or, Brusselsanother from the Guardian, good for shopping, probably not very cheap, but nowhere is.
- Leopold Brusselsanother from the Guardian
- Bristol Stephanie Brusselsanother of the Guardian's chosen hotels
- Bedford, Brusselsanother of the Guardian's suggestions
- Sofitel in Brussels EuropeThey say, "Luxury hotel in BRUXELLES", its on the Place Jourdain, near to the Berleymont and Schuman. Not cheap.
London
- Boris Bikes MapThis is a rather cool mash up. Guerrilla programming is the way to go. Its amzing how these are never produced by the original service provider
- a charity changing peoles lives through sailingBased in Deptford, SE London, the Centre is open to everyone and is a place where you can have the opportunity to enjoy the experience of sailing and boating activities on the Thames in the heart of London.
- Cartoon MuseumOn 23rd February 2006 London's first cartoon museum opened to the public. Situated at 35 Little Russell Street, a stone's throw from The British Museum, The Cartoon Museum exhibits the very finest examples of British cartoons, caricature, and comic art from the 18th century to the present day.
- UntitledOne excellent value hotel chain
- online - Transport for LondonBuy or top up your Oyster card
- Canary WharfLooking for a bar to drink at, although this only does the official malls, and excludes the shops on the colonades and squares
- Power of Yes | Theatre review | Stage | The GuardianOn at the NT, this is the Guradian's review, on their front apge, not the back.
- Stirling AckroydThey say "Home - Estate Agents in Bankside, Clerkenwell, Hackney and Shoreditch"
- Residential Estate Agents in DocklandsTheir home page, with a good district filter
- - 1 Lombard StreetWell located and the Restaurant upstairs has a Michelin *.
It seems to have concatenated the two widgets into one short code.
More Maybe
There is also, this page, on the 4 best rss plugins.
I had a little play with the rss rendering and at elast it finds and renders the files I made from the delicious files. I am really not sure it’s worth it and the toll concatenates the various files.