Bug Fixes and Enhancements

After a lot time away from development due to an illness, I have started back on updates, improvements, and bug fixes for my plugins. The first was a bug fix in the Login Configurator plugin fixing a problem where the “Teaser” option did not work on a static page. If you have any comments or suggestions for that plugin, please let me know.

The other recent updates was in the Better RSS Widget plugin. I have added a short code to this plugin to allow you to embed RSS feeds into posts and pages.  I have included a couple samples of embedded RSS (you may need to view the full article) and you can find more information and usage instructions on the RSS Shortcode page. Future additions to this plugin will include conditionals so that you can place widgets only on specific pages, and perhaps a feed aggregator function to bring multiple feeds into one widget.

Example of Embedded RSS with Date and Author

better-rss feed=”http://wordpress.org/development/feed” items=5 show_date=1 show_author=1

Same RSS Feed with Summary

better-rss feed=”http://wordpress.org/development/feed” items=5 show_date=1 show_author=1 show_summary=1

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Note: The text in italics is the actual shortcode used to create the output. The plugin does not display this, it is simply included on this page so you can view the examples.

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Better RSS Widget allows you to control more of the settings for the RSS feeds you display in your sidebar, including cache time, link target, and time display. Also includes a shortcode to allow you to embed RSS feeds into your posts and pages.

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