Dashboard News: Customizable RSS Feed Widget for WordPress

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The “Dashboard News” plugin is designed to enhance your WordPress dashboard by displaying customizable RSS feeds. This plugin allows you to set individual limits for each feed and provides a refresh button to update the feed content instantly.

Key Features:

  • Customizable RSS Feeds: Display multiple RSS feeds with individual item limits.
  • Easy Refresh: A refresh button in the widget updates the feed content without page reload.
  • Admin Panel Settings: Easily configure RSS feed URLs and their display limits through the admin settings page.
  • Rss Feeds:You can list any website that has a RSS feed to include Youtube channel or playlist.
Example Youtube channel: 
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCiyeXfnGx9e06hXWf0Hz7ow
Example Youtube playlist
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PLXpD0vT4thWEY6CbwMISKDiXOd5KPC6wo

* You will need to find the channel ID by viewing the source page. These links are from WPManageNinja Youtube.

Installation and Setup:

  1. Save the Plugin File: Save the provided PHP code as a file named dashboard-news.php.
  2. Upload the Plugin: Upload the dashboard-news.php file to your WordPress wp-content/plugins directory.
  3. Activate the Plugin: Go to Plugins > Installed Plugins in your WordPress admin panel and activate the “Dashboard News” plugin.
  4. Configure the Plugin: Navigate to Settings > Dashboard News Settings to enter RSS feed URLs and their display limits.
  5. How to use: *please do not for get to put a space then | space between the url and the number of feeds!
URL | number of feeds
Example:
https://example.com/feed | 5
https://anotherexample.com/feed | 10

This plugin is perfect for those looking to keep their WordPress dashboard updated with the latest news from your favorite RSS feeds while providing easy customization options and clear credit attribution.

Version:

V1.7 adds rss feeds linkage to the user dashboard


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Notes:

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One Comment

Master Coder

To aquire the user channel ID on youtube you will need to view source page and search for /channel/ after that is a long string that is the channel ID. then see the example above and paste it afer the = , now you have the channel rss feed and can place it inside the dashboard settings. YT is limited to 15 feeds at one time.