Title: [Plugin: RSS in Page] great plugin, some changes expected Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # [Plugin: RSS in Page] great plugin, some changes expected * [ascetix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ascetix/) * (@ascetix) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rss-in-page-great-plugin-some-changes-expected/) * Hello, * I’m a new user of “RSS in page”. Plugin is great, but I had to made some changes. * Some of them would be interesting for other users. Some of them are just ‘improvements’. * 1) for UTF-8 pages * You used **substr** for cropping titles/descriptions that were longer that should be. I’ve changed to **mb_substr**: * – for title: * ``` if(strlen($rsstitle) > $rsstitlelength) // original: { $rsstitle = substr($rsstitle, 0, $rsstitlelength).'... '; } { $rsstitle = mb_substr($rsstitle, 0, $rsstitlelength, 'UTF-8').'... '; } } ``` * – for description: * ``` if ($rssdescriptionlength != 'all') { if(strlen($z) > $rssdescriptionlength) // original: { $z = substr($z, 0, $rssdescriptionlength).'... '; } { $z = mb_substr($z, 0, $rssdescriptionlength, 'UTF-8').'... '; } } ``` * 2) change **frequency** for reading rss feeds In your plugin you set up 60 seconds for cache ‘freshness’. I’ve changed for my blog to 3600s, to protect rss sources: * `$feed->set_cache_duration('3600');` * 3) setting rel=”nofollow” for links For SEO improvement: * ``` // orig: $Y = ''.$rsstitle.''; } else { $Y = $rsstitle; } $Y = ''.$rsstitle.''; } else { $Y = $rsstitle; } ``` * I think you could put an option for “nofollow” (like option rsstarget for “_blank”) * 4) removing some html tags/comments from descriptions There are numbers of reasons for doing it (cropping text sometimes breaks html tags; someone may not want to have links/pictures in feeds etc). * ``` $feed->strip_htmltags(array('p', 'a', 'b', 'strong', 'i', 'em', 'u', 'div', 'table', 'td', 'tr', 'img', 'span', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'ul', 'ol', 'li')); $feed->strip_comments(true); ``` * 5) I also did some other replacements for content of descriptions (below some examples, not a complete list): * ``` if ($rss_items[$i]->get_description() != '') $z = $rss_items[$i]->get_description(); $z = str_ireplace ('ó', 'ó', $z); $z = str_ireplace ('·', '-', $z); $z = preg_replace ('//i', ' ', $z); $z = preg_replace ('//i', ' ', $z); $z = preg_replace ('/
/i', ' ', $z); $z = preg_replace ('/[\r\n]/i', ' ', $z); $z = preg_replace ('/https?[^\s]+/i', '[url] ', $z); ``` * (putting br to strip_htmltags array was not a good idea; strip_htmltags just cuts tags, I wanted to replace some of them to space – but, of course, one may prefer doing it the other way) * ——– * I think 1), 2) and 3) could be interesting to others, 4) – many may want this as an option for some feeds, 5) is just a ‘feature’ 🙂 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-in-page/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-in-page/) Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Thread Starter [ascetix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ascetix/) * (@ascetix) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rss-in-page-great-plugin-some-changes-expected/#post-1918607) * as an example of page with mentioned changes: [http://blog.koszykzdomenami.pl/domenowe-wiadomosci/](http://blog.koszykzdomenami.pl/domenowe-wiadomosci/) * Thread Starter [ascetix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ascetix/) * (@ascetix) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rss-in-page-great-plugin-some-changes-expected/#post-1918924) * Hi, * I don’t know why, but for me strip_htmltags for “img” doesn’t work properly- I see many tags with some images in parsed feeds. To work it out I’ve added another preg_replace line. * I always added “iframe” to strip_htmltags. So, now, after some additional cleanings/ customisations I use: * ``` $feed->strip_htmltags(array('p', 'a', 'b', 'strong', 'i', 'em', 'u', 'div', 'table', 'iframe', 'td', 'tr', 'img', 'span', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'ul', 'ol', 'li' ..... /* and other tags */ )); $feed->strip_comments(true); [...] if ($rss_items[$i]->get_description() != '') $z = $rss_items[$i]->get_description(); $z = str_ireplace ('ó', 'ó', $z); $z = str_ireplace ('·', '-', $z); $z = preg_replace ('//i', ' ', $z); $z = preg_replace ('//i', ' ', $z); $z = preg_replace ('/
/i', ' ', $z); $z = preg_replace ('/[ \t\f]+/i', ' ', $z); $z = preg_replace ('/https?[^\s]+/i', '[url]', $z); $z = preg_replace ('/]*>/i', '[img]', $z); $z = preg_replace ('/[\r\n]/i', '•', $z); if ($rssdescriptionlength != 'all') { if(strlen($z) > $rssdescriptionlength) { $z = mb_substr($z, 0, $rssdescriptionlength, 'UTF-8').'... '; } } $z = str_ireplace ('[url]', '[url] ', $z); $z = str_ireplace ('[img]', '[img] ', $z); $z = preg_replace ('/•[ •]*/i', '♦', $z); ``` * It results in importing more interesting texts from rss feed. It’s also safer. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘[Plugin: RSS in Page] great plugin, some changes expected’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/rss-in-page.svg) * [RSS in Page](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rss-in-page/) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rss-in-page/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rss-in-page/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rss-in-page/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rss-in-page/reviews/) * 2 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [ascetix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ascetix/) * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rss-in-page-great-plugin-some-changes-expected/#post-1918924) * Status: not resolved