YD BuddyPress Feed Syndication
Syndicate RSS feeds into your user or group Activity stream Select any kind of RSS feeds that will be agregated into your BuddyPress activity stream. For example, to import an existing blog. Each BuddyPress user can select as many external RSS feeds as they want. They will be aggregated (mixed) into
Syndicate RSS feeds into your user or group Activity stream
Select any kind of RSS feeds that will be agregated into your BuddyPress activity stream. For example, to import an existing blog.
Each BuddyPress user can select as many external RSS feeds as they want. They will be aggregated (mixed) into their activity feed automatically, with a title, an excerpt and a link to the original post.
External blogs can also be aggregated into group activity feeds the same way.
A simple way to promote any external blog content inside a BuddyPress community.
Uses WP-cron to update feeds automatically.
Compatible with PHP5.
Requires the BuddyPress social plugin for WordPress to be installed and configured (will not work and is not useful without BuddyPress / will cause a fatal error upon installation if BuddyPress is not activated).
Usage guide
- Activate plugin
- Go to My account > Settings > Import a blog
- Add one or more RSS feed URL addresses with optional title
- Wait for one hour, or click the “Manually run hourly process” button in the plugin’s option page
- Latest blog post title and excerpts will start appearing in your BuddyPress personal activity feed page
Usage for group feeds
- Go to Groups > Your group > Admin > Import blogs
- Add one or more RSS feed URL addresses with optional title
- Wait for one hour, or click the “Manually run hourly process” button in the plugin’s option page
- Latest blog post title and excerpts will start appearing in BuddyPress activity pages of group members
New optional settings of version 2.x
- Maximum number of feeds a user or group can aggregate can be setup in the “YD BuddyPress Feed Syndication” option page with the “Limit number of feeds to aggregate to a maximum of:” setting.
- External blog links can be made to open in a different window by ticking the “Open feed links in new window.” checkbox in the plugin’s settings page.
