RSS Just Better
Displays a list of RSS/Atom feed items given the feed URL and other parameters (optionals). Highly customizable.
4.5(8 reviews)
·400 active installs·Updated 10 years agoAs of April 2026, RSS Just Better is a WordPress rss plugin with 400 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 46K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: RSS Importer.
4.5/58 reviews
400active installs
46K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
It displays a list of feed items from a given feed URL. You can select cache recreation frequency, the number of displayable news and whether you want publication date, time (and in which format), an excerpt and reference to the plugin homepage displayed or not. You can also choose to have a ordered (numbered) or unordered (bullet-point) list and to open a new windows or not, when clicking on the linked items. You can truncate title and/or excerpt to a certain amount of chars and can sort the itmes by date/time or title.
Usage
= Usage as a Shortcode =
* In Posts/Pages->Add New or Edit of your wp adminstration, select the HTML tab in the entry form;
* enter either the following (if you want to display a generic feed):
[RSSjb feed=”replace-with-the-rss-or-atom-feed-URL-you-wish-to-…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.8+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
= 1.4
* Change: Change reference website which is now http://stefonthenet.com.
= 1.3
* New Feature: Possible to disable the reverse chronological order established by default. Normally, this results in a chronological order but not always. I.e. Google news will not be chronological.
* New Feature: Added “Serbia” to the list of Google News countries
* New Feature: Added “More Top News” to the list of Google News topics
* Change: Added more comments to code
* Change: Google News attributes for shortcode are now the same as for widget variables (to avoid confusion)
* Bug Fix: Non-latin alphabeths and non-standard chars (Google news locations) are now displayed properly
* Bug Fix: Image URL for rss icon in shortcode is now correct
* Bug Fix: Standard Google News feed URL has been changed (by Google)
* Bug Fix: Location as null string does not deafult to usa (??) (Google news)
* Bug Fix: urlencoding text for Google News searches
1.2 (never released)
- Change: If no feed item is returned, a message specifying how many items were requested is displayed
- Bug Fix: double quote works but do not show up
- Bug Fix: Local field/attribute (for Us and Ca only in English) did not work (var geo was local instead)
- Bug Fix: Feed linked to title did not work when feed was Google News feed.
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