News feed

News feed for wordpress

[alanchar1978]

Most wordpress themes I have used in the past come with a simple news feed for footer for the whole site or homepage, if not they use a widget to display this but I have noticed more and more that free themes don't integrate this, so I was wondering if there was a plugin that can add a news feed to a footer or is there a standard bit of html that I can add into the footer.php to make one?

[lorax]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Do you mean a news feed from another website? If so, these are RSS feeds and there are several ways to read and republish them on your website. Just look for RSS feed plugins.

[alanchar1978]

Thanks for the welcome lorax, and no I mean feed through my own posts to the home page of the site on free themes that don't have that feature.

[rocknbil]

The below example pulls the 5 latest posts from categories 6 and 12.

<?php 
 query_posts('showposts=5&cat=6,12'); 
 while (have_posts()) {  
 the_post();  
 $date = get_the_date(); 
 $permalink = get_permalink(); 
 $title = get_the_title(); 
 echo "<p><a class=\"your-post-class\" href=\"$permalink\" title=\"$title\">$title</a> $date By: "; 
 the_author_posts_link(); 
 echo '</p>'; 
 } 
?> 

More info on query_posts in the manual.