Introduction

• Wordpress RSS Combiner is a Wordpress-Plugin that lets you merge several RSS-Feeds into one.
• It caches the input feeds, sorts items by publishing-date and then outputs a feed in either RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0 format.
• Currently it requires WordPress 2.1x (in case downgradeability could be added on request)

Version-History

Version 1.1 - Revision 93 (as of 2010-06-11)

• fixed an escaping bug in parameter URLs

Version 1.1 (as of 2010-04-17)

• major and minor fixes to the plugin. tested with current WP version.
• Admin page visual refresh
• SimplePie Caching enabled
• gzip compression is mandatory now and headers are fixed.

old

• v1.0c RC - still Release Candidate (minor improvements to admin-page - Rev78) (2007/11/28)
• v1.0 RC - first Release Candidate (for testing only - in order to get some feedback - Rev70) (2007/11/26)
• Project Start. No official Releases yet. (2007/11/24)

Installation

1. Download the archive and extract its contents or checkout the source (http://wp-rss-combiner.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/).
2. Upload the complete folder (including subfolders) to /wp-content/plugins/ of your Wordpress-Installation.
3. Activate the plugin.
4. Make sure to change the write-properties (chmod) of /wp-content/plugins/wp-rss-combiner/simplepie/cache to 0777 (Simplepie will cache the feed there).
5. Add the feeds you want to combine (Simply add the exact URL of a feed under 'Options' - 'RSS Combiner').

Screenshots

1. Customize Settings

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2. Add Feeds

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3. Access your combined Feed

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Credits

• Author: Erik Pöhler
• This Plugin is based on a standalone PHP-Script by John Wrana (http://jowra.com/journal/2006/10/rss-combiner/). I completely rewrote the script from scratch. That said, the idea is Johns' the Wordpress port is my work. So i'm standing on giants shoulders... Thanks for sharing the script and publishing it under GNU GP License.
• This Plugin makes use of Simplepie.