Plugin / WordPress RSS Feed Retriever

Changelog

1.5.5

• Fix a bug where dofollow option was not working with thumbnails

1.5.3

• Add more details to RSS errors
• Fallback to original RSS fetch method if feed is invalid

1.5.2

• Increase performance with built-in caching system for all feeds
• Disable ajax for feeds already cached

1.5.1

• Fix an issue causing some sources to block SimplePie requests

1.5.0

• Defer loading feeds via JavaScript (solves slow page loading issue)
• Add ajax option (true or false) to disable deferred loading
• Fix an issue where some feeds would not fetch
• Hide images that contain broken or blocked links

1.4.3

• Fix an issue with default ordering for single feeds

1.4.2

• Add ability to grab thumbnail image from rss image tag

1.4.1

• Add custom filter hook to allow changes to the layout (wp_rss_retriever_layout)
• Thumbnail images now link to the source

1.4.0

• Refactor feed fetching and formatting for performance
• Improve error handling. Display attribute errors for administrators and editors
• Allow cache setting to be plain text (ie. 2 hours, 2 days, etc.)
• Fix a bug causing the shortcode not to load when an open or closing double quote was used
• Allow thumbnails to take percentages as arguments for full width (ie. 100%x250)

1.3.10

• Fix a bug causing an error if the rss content is an empty string

1.3.9

• Fix a bug with function declarations not working with some themes

1.3.7

• Improve image finder functionality

1.3.6

• Add support for featured images in RSS feeds for self-hosted sources

1.3.5

• Suppress php warning from known SimplePie date bug

1.3.4

• Fix a bug causing a PHP error for feeds with a 404 error

1.3.3

• Fix a bug when published and source are disabled causing layout issue

1.3.2

• Fix an issue where feeds were automatically reordered by default WordPress settings

1.3.1

• Fix an issue where excerpts in East Asian languages were not trimming words properly

1.3.0

• Refactor image CSS to make img element act as background-size:cover
• Remove default list-item styles
• Include ability to set width and height on thumbnails (ie. 200×150)
• Fix an issue where plugin CSS was not enqueuing when using the shortcode inside a text widget
• Fix an issue where excerpt=0 was not stripping html tags from the feed.

1.2.6

• Fix HTML validation error

1.2.4

• Utilizes the local timezone set in WordPress general settings

1.2.2

• Dates now translates to the language set in WordPress general settings
• Date and time format now uses the format set via WordPress general settings

1.2.1

• Fix a bug where the error message “No Items” was displaying outside of the list item
• Fix an error that displays sometimes on 404 pages
• Add optional plugin credits (disabled by default)
• Add orderby=”random” method

1.2

• Fix SSL error
• Add default nofollow for links
• Add option for dofollow

1.1.1

• Support for aggregating multiple feeds into one list
• Ability to order posts by date or reverse date
• Options to display or remove source and date
• Option to remove title

1.1

• Fixed several bugs
• Fetch thumbnail or first image
• Control size of thumbnail
• Set cache time (in seconds)
• Now includes small CSS file, required for thumbnail support

1.0.2

• Pulls images & html in when excerpt is not enabled

1.0.1

• Fixes bug where excerpt included html and broken images

1.0

• Initial release