RSS Feed Checker
The RSS Feed checker looks through your blogroll for links with rss feeds and captures the details to be shown in a widget.
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·10 active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, RSS Feed Checker is a WordPress rss plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: RSS Importer.
5/51 reviews
10active installs
8.1K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
The RSS Feed checker looks through your blogroll for links with rss feeds and then stores the name and url of the latest article.
The Links RSS Enhanced widget then displays the latest links in descending order.
The idea for the widget comes from the blogroll widget on blogger.
Version 2.0 for PHP 8 and above only. Only tested on 6.9.
For earlier versions of PHP use Version 1.1
Technical section
The plugin will create an extra table in your wordpress database to store the latest feed updates,
this will be called links_rss with the prefix for your database e.g. wp_links_rss
A Cron (schedule) is created to run every 30 minutes and process links. Note that Cron in WordPress
depends on hits, your WordPress website receives. So playing with this plugin within an offline
environment (MAMP, XAMP…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0
- Updates for PHP 8.
- SQL Injection issues resolved.
- Swapped to using UTC dates internally and server dates for display.
- Simplified some of the functions that only existed for backwards compatibility.
- Swapped microtime_float() with microtime(true)
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