Joe Hayes {dot} Org

Recently I have been working on a large project, BlogSavy, a free blog hosting service. Other than the typical stuff like updating the software to the lastest version of WPMU and getting all the plugins and templates playing nicely with each other, recently there was a forum installed for support. As such, posting updates on both the host’s homepage and in the forum cumbersome, as well as a time waster.

The answer was using RSS from one or the other, and even though Wordpress already has RSS functionality I’d prefer using the blog’s homepage in a static manner and keeping all the info in the phpBB forum. So, a quick search found a quick and dirty simple RSS mod that required no template edits, and am going to use Wordpress’s built in RSS functionality to display this in a blog template.

Regardless of where you generate the RSS feed from, the code to display it will be the same. Since Wordpress already handles imported RSS to display info in the admin panel, we can just tap into that code using a php includes and then use those functions to our liking. So, on any template page (outside of the loop of course), you can throw in this code which can be downloaded in this text file.

Some things to note, you must include the file rss-functions.php before you can use the RSS functions. Change the $url = to your feed url. The variable $href will output the post’s url from the feed, $title would output the post title, and $description would output the post. You can change the number of items feed with $i == 5 to whatever you want it to be. Enjoy.