Directory Bonus: RSS Inserts

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Setting up an RSS feed on any Page or Post in your website.

Here's your bonus for getting RYO Member Directory!

When you install RYO Member Directory, this bonus routine is installed for you.

We've made it very easy to set up an RSS feed from another website on any Page or Post in your website.
Just use the [insertrss] shortcode.

At its simplest, It's a three-step process.

Step 1: Create a Page and just enter this shortcode:

[rssinsert]

This will display the RSS feed of your current website.

Step 2: Customize the display with attributes to set the specific RSS feed and display options you want. We recommend something like this:

Attributes to customize RSS Inserts

You may modify the RSS inserts by specifying special attributes within the [rssinsert] notation, as in :

[rssinsert feed=http://example.com/feed quan=3 format=1]

You'll probably want to set the feed attribute each time you use this, but none of these need to be used unless you want to change the way your feed insert appears.

feed: This is the full URL to the RSS feed you want to display. It should start with http.

quan: The number of stories you want to display. If you don't set this 3 will be displayed.

format: This code determines what will be displayed. 1 = Title only. 2 = Title and description or summary. 3 = Title, Date, and description or summary. If you don't set this format 3 will be used.

wordcount: The maximum number of words to be included in description text. If the wordcount exceeds this number, the remainder will be truncated. If you don't set this, the RSS Setting in Settings will be used, usually 55.

maintitle: Set maintitle=1 and the Main title of the website will be displayed. Set it to 2 and the website description will also be displayed.

maintitletag: If you're displaying the Main title of the website, it will be displayed using b tags, that is, setting it to bold. If you want to set it to match a headline style on your website, like h2, set maintitletag=h2

Here's a live example

Using this code:

[rssinsert feed=http://magicstrategy.com/feed format=2]

We get this result:

[rssinsert feed=http://magicstrategy.com/feed format=2]

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