Description
GE RSS-Reader Widgets is jQuery based RSS reader widget, which displays the RSS feeds in the widget in an attractive way. It uses the jQuery easy ticker plugin to add a news ticker like effect to the RSS feeds. Multiple RSS feeds can be added for a single widget and they get separated in tabs.
The plug-in is fully customizable with external styles and with some inbuilt color styles. It acts as a perfect replacement for the default RSS widget in WordPress.
New features in v3.1
- The plug-in has become more customizable using pluggable functions and several filter hooks.
New features in v3.0
- Added option to set date format
- Added option to determine whether to place meta information above or below the individual items
Features
- jQuery news ticker like effect to the RSS feeds (can turn off or on)
- Tabs support, if multiple RSS feeds are added in a single widget.
- (NEW) Displays thumbnail to the feed items if available.
- Customizable with Inbuilt color styles and with external CSS styles.
- (NEW) Customizable ticker speed.
- Add multiple RSS feeds in a page with a ticker effect.
- Supports RSS or atom feed.
- Can strip title and description text of the feed item.
- Can tweak the widget to change the no of visible feed items and more…
- The jQuery ticker effect is by the jQuery easy ticker plugin
Available Filters
srr_item_properties
This filter allows you to filter individual item’s properties (author, title, description), before they get passed to the print function.
To see which properties are passed to the filter function, simply var_dump() the contents of $item_properties.
To use it, you could use code similar to this:
`php
add_filter(‘srr_item_properties’, function ($item_properties) {
$item_properties[‘title’] = strtolower($item_properties[‘title’]);
return $item_properties;
}, 10, 1);
`
Resources
Credits
- RSS feed reading engine is the inbuilt WordPress’s engine
- The news ticker effect is powered by the jQuery Easy ticker plugin
- Default colour styles are by Aakash Chakravarthy.