Title: [Plugin: RSSImport] Function hardcoded to author's URL/shortcodes not working?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: RSSImport] Function hardcoded to author's URL/shortcodes not working?

 *  Resolved [bdd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bws-online/)
 * (@bws-online)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rssimport-function-hardcoded-to-authors-urlshortcodes-not-working/)
 * I’m using shortcodes to pull in a blog’s feed, and without going in to edit rssimport.
   php it’s not pulling the correct feed (even though I have the proper shortcode).
 * In rssimport.php, in function RSSImport_Shortcode, it has ‘feedurl’ hardcoded
   to the author’s feed (on a .de website).
 * Is there somewhere else to make an adjustment, or do you HAVE to edit rssimport.
   php for this to work? (If you have to edit rssimport.php, that’s not ideal for
   future updates….)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-import/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-import/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Frank Bueltge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bueltge/)
 * (@bueltge)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rssimport-function-hardcoded-to-authors-urlshortcodes-not-working/#post-3118791)
 * The value is not harcoded, is only the default value and was replaced, if you
   set an new url in the param `feedurl` inside the shortcode, like `[RSSImport 
   display="5" feedurl="http://example.com/feed/"]`
 *  Thread Starter [bdd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bws-online/)
 * (@bws-online)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rssimport-function-hardcoded-to-authors-urlshortcodes-not-working/#post-3118792)
 * Okay, well if it’s not hardcoded, then it’s not working for shortcodes. I did
   as you described, and it still showed the default value.
 *  Plugin Author [Frank Bueltge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bueltge/)
 * (@bueltge)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rssimport-function-hardcoded-to-authors-urlshortcodes-not-working/#post-3118803)
 * Works fine; see this page: [http://kvfl.com/kletternews/](http://kvfl.com/kletternews/)
   
   This is a page in WP and use lot of shortcodes with different feed urls, like
 *     ```
       <h2>Deutsch sprachige News:</h2>
       <h3>KVFL.com [<a href="http://kvfl.com/feed/" title="Link zum RSSFeed">RSS</a>]</h3>
       [RSSImport feedurl="http://kvfl.com/feed/"]
       ```
   
 *  [rpvp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rpvp/)
 * (@rpvp)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rssimport-function-hardcoded-to-authors-urlshortcodes-not-working/#post-3118884)
 * No, it does not. Even changing the feed url you still get the Bultge feed.
    I’m
   using this shortcode:
 * > [RSSImport display=”3″ feedurl=”[http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=RSS06&template=rss_gd_re&#8221](http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=RSS06&template=rss_gd_re&#8221);
   > 
   > displaydescriptions=”true” html=”false” start_items=”
   >  1. ” end_items=”
   > ” paging=”true” ]
 * And still getting the german feed.
 *  [pixelgeek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelgeek/)
 * (@pixelgeek)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rssimport-function-hardcoded-to-authors-urlshortcodes-not-working/#post-3118885)
 * I am having the same issue. Providing a feed url property does not change the
   RSS feed that is being returned. I still get the feed from the developers site.
 *  [pixelgeek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelgeek/)
 * (@pixelgeek)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rssimport-function-hardcoded-to-authors-urlshortcodes-not-working/#post-3118886)
 * I just got mine to work. I suspect that you might have the same issue that I 
   did. It appears that when I copied the example code from the plugin page that
   some non-standard characters were inserted as spaces. I deleted all the spaces
   between the entries and then added proper spaces and it solved the problem.

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