rss in the theme?

lukoie

is there any way i can add custom rss feed in my theme file, so i can get the latest posts titles from my WP blog in my Vanilla2 RC2 forum sidebar?

Tim

This would be a pretty sweet plugin, or maybe something that you could do with Javascript, but currently there is no built-in way to achieve what you're asking.

oliverraduner

@lukoie Why not just include f.eg. Last RSS in your theme's directory and code it into your theme?

oliverraduner

Here you go: Last RSS Plugin for Vanilla 2

lukoie

thanx oliver
i need to post the last articles titles in the sidebar(and/or footer), so forum visitors cant ignore blog content activity
i will look at the links you've provided, thanx

lukoie

well, no luck
i've tried to incapsulate it into header, but it only shows a mess of the code
@oliverraduner, can you please modify your plugin to be able to add rss stream on the sidebar or/and footer?

oliverraduner

@lukoie It IS supposed to show the feed in a sidebar panel. But only on the Activities page!

Can you show me a Screenshot? Did you modify the Code, because you talked about "encapsuled into the Header"...

lukoie

sorr, my mistake, not a header, but a footer
i've added the code into footer file, but it only shows the code itself, no rss output
i have no "activities" page on my forum, just the forum threads itself

oliverraduner

?

You cannot add the Code just to some page?! You only need to put the Plugin folder into /plugins/ and the go to your Dashboard and enable the Plugin.

In your case, you may want to comment-out the line just below:

// Show RSS Feed only on the Activities Page
//here's the old Code line.

lukoie

@oliverraduner
no no no, oliver
i meant i've tried to use mentioned script, not your plugin
you plugin works just fine when i uncommented that string, cheers!

just a few requests
1 - you need to make your php file utf8, because at the moment it is in ascii, so non-ascii symbols doesnt show up. (i have a massive hadache with whoisonline plugin right now dealing with tha same problem)
2 - and could you please hide the rss from the adminpage - i think no need to show it there.
3 - it seems that "$Rss->items_limit = 5; "
doesnt work

oliverraduner

Ah I see @lukoie ;-) Well, can't help you with integrating LastRSS directly into the theme - but I assume you use wrong HTML-styling so it is not being displayed as you want it.

However, thanks for your requests! Here's my feedback to it:

1 - you need to make your php file utf8

I cannot reproduce this problem. The file itself is UTF8 encoded (at least on my side). May you provide an example feed-url which did not work for you?
Here's a screenshot of when I set the URL to a Cyrillic RSS Feed:

2 - and could you please hide the rss from the adminpage

Unless you modified the Plugin code, it is not being displayed on the Admin page?! At least I could not reproduce that...

3 - it seems that "$Rss->items_limit = 5; "

There was ineed something wrong so items_limit has not been considered. I fixed that one.

lukoie

@oliverraduner
1 just add some title in russian, lets say this "последние известия" in your default.php file in the $RssFeedTitle
2 i did not modified it(just commented the line for activities), but is IS showed in my adminpage
3 should i re-download the plugin, did you uploaded the modifies version in the same plugin page?

oliverraduner

Yes @lukoie, I uploaded Version 1.1 of the RSS Plugin

Regarding your title-encoding issue: please note that the title for the feed box will now be fetched automatically from the feed. Please let me know, if it's being displayed correctly for you.

lukoie

@oliverraduner, it works as a breeze
but please, could you restore the $rssfeedtitle, and just make it optional to use rss title, or own title?

i have a few WP sites, and forum integrated and the same theme, so basically users dont need to know its a different scripts (wp and vanilla), so i wanted to add the sites articles on the forums sidebar for users to feel comfortable its all the same one site.
SO, i dont need the caption to double the sitename, because its already there, i want to call it lets say "the latest articles".

lukoie

btw, the title's codepage is ok now, when it takes it from the rss feed

oliverraduner

@lukoie I will add an option so you can have a custom title.

In the meantime, you could overwrite the line where it says <h4> with

HtmlOut .= '<h4>Your Custom Title</h4>';

lukoie

i did, thanx

and still, when i add the title in russian, it renders weird symbols on the site, so i must to convert your php file into utf8

oliverraduner

That's strange @lukoie - because I saved it in UTF8. But does it work for you AFTER you converted it to UTF8 yourself??

lukoie

yeah, it works as a breeze
just what the doctor ordered
cheers mate