YD BuddyPress Feed Syndication

Description: Syndicate external RSS feeds into your BuddyPress activity feeds (like with notes on a Facebook wall).

Author:Yann Dubois (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:2.8
WordPress version tested:3.2.1
Plugin version:2.1.0
Added to WordPress repository:14-07-2011
Last updated:06-09-2011
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:http://www.yann.com/
Total downloads:9 963
Active installs:10+
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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.

Active support

Drop me a line on my YD BuddyPress Feed Syndication site to report bugs, ask for specific feature or improvement, or just tell me how you’re using the plugin.
It’s still in an active development stage, with new features coming out on a regular basis.

Language versions & translation credits

  • English: Yann Dubois
  • French: Yann Dubois
  • Italian: Giancarlo Cuzzolin ( Uajika )
  • Russian: Diogen Platonovitch ( http://platonovich.ru/ )

All those translations are provided in the distribution. The plugin is fully internationalized and can easily be translated into any other language.

Funding

Original development and improvements of this plugin was kindly funded by http://www.selliance.com -> Please visit their site to see this plugin in action!

Revisions

  • 2.1.0. Production release / new features / bugfix of 2011/08/27
  • 2.0.4. Bugfix release 4 of 2011/08/26
  • 2.0.3. Bugfix release 3 of 2011/08/26
  • 2.0.2. Bugfix release 2 of 2011/08/26
  • 2.0.1. Bugfix release 1 of 2011/08/26
  • 2.0.0. Production release / new features / bugfix of 2011/08/25
  • 1.1.0. Production release / bugfix of 2011/07/22
  • 1.0.0. Production release of 2011/07/18
  • 0.1.1. Beta release of 2011/07/15
  • 0.1.0. Initial beta release of 2011/07/13

Did you like it?

Drop me a line on http://www.yann.com/en/wp-plugins/yd-buddypress-feed-syndication

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