Author RSS Feed
A widget which lets you show different RSS feeds for your authors on their author pages and posts.
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·10 active installs·Updated 10 years agoAs of April 2026, Author RSS Feed is a WordPress rss plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: RSS Importer.
0/5Rating
10active installs
2.3K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
The Author RSS Widget is very similar to the default RSS widget but offers author-specific RSS feeds. This means that you can display the RSS feed of your authors on their author archive page or posts that they’ve written.
Usage
The plugin gives you 5 options to tweak. The “Title” and Items To Show” options should be pretty self-explanatory. The former controls the widget’s title, the later controls the number of items displayed from the feed.
The “Field Name” option is needed because there is no built-in way to add an author’s feed URL to WordPress. Author RSS Feed needs to know how you saved this data to the database. Add user meta field name you are using here.
There are a number of ways to add additional fields to the user edit screen, I…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.5.0+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.0.3 (2015-10-09)
- Added logic for better author detection
Contributors
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