Super RSS Reader – Add attractive RSS Feed Widget Plugin
Display any RSS feed(s) in widget with news ticker effect in multiple tabs, thumbnails, customizable color themes and more.
Super RSS Reader plugin allows you to display RSS feed(s) in an attractive way to your widget. It has options to display multiple RSS feeds separated by tabs in a single widget and has feature to add a news ticker like effect to it. See the features list below for complete list.
The widget is fully customizable with external styles and also has color themes out of the box. It is a perfect replacement for the default RSS widget in WordPress.
News ticker – Add news ticker like effect to the RSS feeds (can turn on of off)
Multiple tabs – Display multiple feeds in one widget separated by tabs.
Thumbnail – Display the thumbnail of the feed item.
Color themes – Options of multiple color themes out of the box. Customizable via CSS.
Different thumbnail positions (align left, right and cover)
Customizable ticker speed.
Different date formats for feed item (absolute and relative)
Supports RSS and atom feed.
Trim title and description text of the feed item.
Order feed items by date or random.
🌄 Display RSS feeds like
Your own website content like recent posts, comments, forum topics etc.
Articles, posts from related websites and share with your users.
Events, job listings etc. from other websites.
Deals, Craigslist, Google News RSS etc. You got it, any RSS feed on your site !
💎 PRO version
Super RSS reader has a PRO version which has more features to further enhance and to get more control of the RSS feed you display. With the PRO version you can enjoy below additional features included and also support the development of this plugin.
Shortcode – Display RSS feed anywhere in your website using [srr_feed]
Grid display – Display feed item in rows and columns
Paginated display – Display feed item in different pages with a pagination bar
Filter by keyword – Show/hide feed items based on keyword
Custom feed item template – Change order of feed item content, add HTML
Fetch thumbnail – Forcefully fetches the thumbnail from feed URL
Merge multiple feeds – Display multiple RSS feeds as one
Here 600 indicates 10 minutes in seconds. Please note that setting lower value will increase the load on the server to refresh the RSS cache.
You can also refer this post https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-not-updating-no-matter-which-plugin-i-try/#post-10123881 to change the refresh time for particular feed URL.
Also, please ensure WordPress cache plugins (like W3 total cache, Super cache etc.) are configured to not cache the page where this widget is active or increase the expiry of the cache so that old cached page is not served to the users.
How can I customize the RSS widget via CSS styles ?
There is a list of CSS classes which are available to take control and customize the RSS feed to the design as intended. The complete list of CSS classes can be found in this page
RSS feed is not displayed or error is shown
This can happen when,
The RSS feed URL is invalid.
The feed URL is not accessible by the server.
The feed content is not in the expected format or corrupt. Please use a feed validation service to validate the feed.
Does this plugin support horizontal ticker ?
No, Super RSS Reader only supports vertical support feature for now.
How to display the feeds in multiple tabs ?
Enter the RSS feed URLs separated by comma or in new line in the widget, the plugin automatically renders the tab.
What are the contents shown in the feed ?
By default content like title, date, author, description, thumbnail can toggled to show in the feed.
Can I change the order of the content shown in the feed ?
Yes, it is possible with the PRO version of the plugin. In the free version we can toggle the content.
Will the additional ticker effect slow down the site ?
The additional effect needs only 2.5 KB of additional JavaScript file which is very small since it is minified and optimized already.