Matthew Vaccaro

Insert RSS Feed Into WP Page

I wanted to include an RSS feed from a wordpress website into on of its own pages for a newsletter that was being sent out. Turns out, though, you don’t need to do this and can just query the custom post type, haha.

On a site note, yes, this is basically the same script as the demo they provide you with in the WP codex. For some reason it wasn’t working for me until I edited it into this form…

Include this somewhere before the script at the top of the page (I put mine in the template declaration):

<?php
/* Template Name: Newsletter*/
include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/feed.php');
?>

Here’s the script:

<?php

$rss = fetch_feed(‘http://www.url.com/feed/?post_type=news’);

if (!is_wp_error( $rss ) ) :
$maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity(7);
$rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $maxitems);
endif;

if ($maxitems == 0 ) echo $rss->get_error_message();

else

foreach ( $rss_items as $item ) :

echo ‘<h2><a href=”‘.$item->get_permalink().’”>’.$item->get_title().’</a></h2>’;
echo ‘<p>’.$item->get_description().’<a href=”‘.$item->get_permalink().’” class=”more-link”>Read More…</a></p>’;

endforeach; ?>