How in the world....rss feeds

[Pendo]

I see a lot of sponsors giving rss feeds for blogs.How in the world do you use them? |banghead| I searched and searched and found nothing.Just give me a link to the instructions how to do it in wordpress.How to make a blog that updates itself? |confused|

[DistantD]

Usually you have have a function that grabs the RSS, parses it, then transforms it into the format you want (generally done using an XSLT). I do this on my site for some rss feeds.

Check out this link for Wordpress: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/fetch_rss

[T Pat]

Most of us are using feedwordpress
http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/

[walrus]

I prefer WP-Autoblog (http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/06/06/wp-autoblog-a-syndication-plugin/). No muss no fuss with a cron job!

[T Pat]

I prefer WP-Autoblog (http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/06/06/wp-autoblog-a-syndication-plugin/). No muss no fuss with a cron job!

Damn Walrus you keep adding to my check it out and to do lists |waves|

[Pendo]

Thanks guys! That helped me a lot!

[walrus]

Damn Walrus you keep adding to my check it out and to do lists |waves|

Glad I can keep you busy!