Results tagged “rss”

"Feed Widget" allows you to easily display RSS and Atom feed summaries in your Movable Type templates. Just unpack the zip file and put "Feed_Widget" in your plugin directory. Then,
you'll have the following new tags available to you:

• OSFeed uri=""

  A container tag representing a feed (RSS or Atom) feed. The "uri" argument is required and should be the URI of the feed.
  

• OSFeedEntries [ lastn=""]

  A container tag that will loop through the entries of the current feed.  Entries are returned in the order that they appear. Using "lastn" limits the total number.
  

• OSFeedEntryTitle

  The title of the current feed entry within the current OSFeedEntries loop.

• OSFeedEntryLink

  The URL of the current feed entry within the current OSFeedEntries loop.

Here's a complete example:

<div class="widget-archive widget">
<h3 class="widget-header">Recently posted on<br/><a href="http://use.perl.org/~markjugg/journal">use.perl</a></h3>
<div class="widget-content">
<mt:OSFeed uri="http://use.perl.org/~markjugg/journal/rss">
       <ul class="widget-list">
         <mt:OSFeedEntries lastn="10">
        <li class="widget-list-item"><a href="<mt:OSFeedEntryLink>"><mt:OSFeedEntryTitle></a></li>
         </mt:OSFeedEntries>
           </ul>
</mt:OSFeed>
</div>
</div>

(The "OS" in the tag names stands for "open source" and is to avoid conflict with Feeds.App, which uses similar names).

The plugin does use caching and conditional requests to minimize publishing overhead. However, it does not handle periodically rebuilding the site to reflect changes in the feeds. Look into a tool like mt-rebuild to handle that part.

This plugin is free, open source software, and is licensed under the same terms as Perl.