firstRSS plugin question

A: Have you asked the plugin author?

2: I, personally, have never heard of this plugin. In the event other folks are the same, it might be helpful to share a link to where you found it.

https://www.underjc.com/?page_id=15

Via the WordPress plug-ins page.

Before I emailed the author I thought I’d appeal to the massed resource of minds on these forums.

But I guess I’ll email the guy.

UPDATE:

Went to the contact section on his site (https://www.underjc.com/contact-us/) and saw this:

“Sorry. I haven’t had time to support firstRSS in a couple of months. I’m working full time and consulting. firstRSS works with most RSS feeds. If it doesn’t work with the feed you want to display, find another feed. I am working on a new version, but haven’t had time to sufficiently test it. Thanks for understanding.”

So anyone out there that can help?

I just installed this yesterday, if you’re still wondering… the first three feeds I tried didn’t work so try another address. Make sure you use the right brackets as shown and no quotation marks. I put the info right on a page in the content area and voila! Awesome. Except I want to block an image that it is feeding so if anyone can answer that for me…

Personally, I had formatting problems with firstRSS which I couldn’t resolve. IMHO, and I’ve searched through many plugins on this issue, one of the best ways to get an RSS feed into the body of a WordPress page, without having to stress about all sorts of WP formatting issues, is to use FeedDigest. You create an account, run the feed you want to appear on your site through FeedDigest, check out the formatting options of the new feed, then grab the php code and paste it into a new WordPress page. I understand you’ll have to be running something like runPHP (there’s a plugin by that name) to be able to do this.

Hope this helps.

(I’m secretly hoping that the more I answer other people’s questions, the greater the chances of someone answering my recent questions… ?? What goes around and all that.)