RSS Stream

RSS Stream displays your social feeds in a lifestream way.

Requirements

• PHP5 (hey, PHP4 is doomed!)
• RSS feeds must be in RSS 2.0 format

Features:

• Uses WordPress resources (no extra libraries needed)
• Personalizable CSS classes
• Options Page
• Multilinguage support
• Detects URLs, e-mail address and @username replies
• Suported services:
  • Twitter
  • Jaiku
  • Pownce
  • Delicious
  • Flickr
  • Facebook
  • Last.fm
  • Photobucket
  • …and every RSS2.0 feed (Generic feed)

Installation

Drop rss-stream folder into /wp-content/plugins/ and activate the plug in.

Usage

Just put the following code in a WordPress page or directly in your PHP theme file:

RSS_Stream();

If you want to use it in a WordPress page, you also need a plugin to execute PHP code, like Exec-PHP.

Live Demo

You can see a live demo here: Lifestream

Screenshots

Customization

The plugin have his own CSS file (rss-stream.css). Tweak it as you like.

You can also replace the default images with the ones you like. Just overwrite the corresponding png file in rss-stream/images folder; i.e. to change te flickr icon, flickr.png, to change the generic feed #3, generic3, and so on…

Languages

Currently, RSS Stream supports the following languages:

• English (en_US)
• Spanish (es_ES)
• Russian (ru_RU). Thanks to Alexander Sokolov
• Italian (it_IT). Thanks to Federico Moretti
• Bulgarian (bg_BG). Thanks to Ognian Mladenov
• Belarussian (BY_by). Thanks to Marcis Gasuns

To collaborate, just edit default.po (included in the plugin) , translate it and send it to me. Thanks in advance.

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Version History

1.0.1 – 2008/08/07

• Fixed delicious 2.0 date bug

1.0 – 2008/08/01

• Delicious 2.0 support

0.8 – 2008/06/09

• Added Plurk service
• Added ‘Time lapse’ option. Suggested by Kim Woodbridge.
• Bulgarian (bg_BG). Thanks to Ognian Mladenov

0.7 – 2008/04/03

• Added ‘Force UTF8 encoding’ option. Use it if you have encoding issues.
• Added italian (it_IT) translation. Thanks to Federico Moretti

0.6 – 2008/03/04

• Added Jaiku service

0.5.1 – 2008/02/22

• Fixed the ‘double pownce options’ bug

0.5 – 2008/02/18

• Multiple generic feeds custom icons
• Added russian (ru_RU) translation. Thanks to Alexander Sokolov

0.4 – 2008/02/15

• Multiple generic feeds option added

0.3 – 2008/02/12

• Added missing hypelinks() & twitter_users() functions. Props to Danielle.

0.2 – 2008/02/05

• Added general feed & photobucket support, optimized CSS. Thanks to Jose Gonzalez

0.1 – 2008/02/01

• Initial Release
• Please send me suggestions, bugs, etc..

To Do

• Refactoring plugin as a PHP Class with methods to add sources easily

Credits

Inspired by Chris J. Davis & Elliott C. Bäck lifestream plugins.

Contribs

• Jose Gonzalez

License

This plugin is released in a GPL license.

Contact

Suggestion, fixes, rants, congratulations, gifts et al to rick[at]jinlabs.com or by my contact page.

Code

Maybe you could be interested in my other plugins: Code