RSS Digest Plugin

RSS Digest fetches items from the RSS or Atom feed that you specify and posts them to your blog in a daily or weekly digest.

A common use is to create a daily digest of items you’ve posted to social networking sites such as Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Unlike the other couple of WordPress plugins providing similar functionality, RSS Digest features a settings page for easy configuration. (No editing code… Yay!)

Feature summary:

• Supports RSS and Atom feeds
• Easy to use configuration settings page
• Daily or weekly digest at the time of your choice
• Configurable digest title, category, tags and author
• Digests may be published automatically, or posted as drafts or pending
• Publishes the description field, allowing you to annotate your imported links
• Based on the latest WordPress feed fetching technology for enhanced performance and scalability

Upload the RSS Digest plugin to your blog, Activate it, then Configure it (Settings > RSS Digest) to set your feed information and digest preferences.

Easy peasy.

1. 

   A sample digest.

2. 

   The configuration settings page.

What feed types does RSS Digest support?

RSS Digest supports all major versions of RSS and Atom, namely

• RSS 0.90
• RSS 0.91 (Netscape)
• RSS 0.91 (Userland)
• RSS 0.92
• RSS 1.0
• RSS 2.0
• Atom 0.3
• Atom 1.0

Can I use RSS Digest with WordPress 2.7 or earlier?

RSS Digest uses the ‘fetch_feed’ library, which is new to WordPress 2.8. As a result, RSS Digest currently only works with WordPress 2.8 or later.

Can I remove the text “This digest powered by RSS Digest” from the bottom of each post?

Yes, but I hope you won’t 🙂

Whether the attribution text appears is controlled by the “Give credit to RSS Digest” setting on the configuration page.

Perhaps you’d consider leaving it on for a limited time before removing just to help us get the word out?

I’d like to see feature XYZ. Can that be added?

Possibly. Leave a comment on the plugin’s homepage with your feature request and we’ll see what we can do.

1.5

• ADDED: Extensive debugging features on Debug tab
• ADDED: Ability to specify digest header and footer

1.03

• FIXED: Removed CSS clear after credit line, which broke some themes and isn’t needed in most
• FIXED: Settings page displayed incorrectly

1.02

• FIXED: Fixed error preventing inline CSS in HTML head from being recognized

1.01

• OTHER: Improved upgrade from 0.6x to remember items already fetched

1.0

• FIXED: Plugin now fully compatible with WordPress 2.9.2
• FIXED: Better timezone handling; display server timezone on options page
• FIXED: URL character handling bug

• FIXED: Rewrote scheduling method, replacing homemade scheduler w/ wordpress cron. Should eliminate duplicate posts seen on some sites.

• ADDED: Added additional debugging information for scheduling system

• ADDED: Greater scheduling granularity (minutes vs quarter-hours)
• ADDED: Display local time on settings page
• ADDED: Choose post status (e.g. publish, draft, pending)
• ADDED: Allow use of post authors without publish status. Note: WP seems to allow plugins to post as users who don’t otherwise have the ability to post.
• ADDED: Use timestamps to choose feed items published since last digest
• ADDED: Allow custom tags to be applied to each digest
• ADDED: Clean up options on deactivate
• ADDED: Allow user to specify minimum number of items per digest
• ADDED: Allow user to suppress item descriptions

0.6

• ADDED: “Preview” option
• ADDED: “Post Now” option
• ADDED: “Reset Settings” option
• ADDED: Ability to append date to title
• FIXED: Author setting not applied correctly
• FIXED: CSS clear after “credit” line
• OTHER: Added debug logger

0.5

• Initial version.