There are times when you want to display external RSS feed on your blog. Perhaps a blog feed of your another blog or some other site. Even though there a lot of plugins that will allow you to achieve this, however, you do not need a plugin to do this because WordPress have a function built in that will take care of this. In this post, we will show you how you can display an external RSS feed on your blog. This way you can even use WordPress as a news aggregator.
Using the code below you can safely add your websites RSS feeds content to any page.
<h2><?php _e( 'Recent news from Some-Other Blog:', 'my-text-domain' ); ?></h2>
<?php // Get RSS Feed(s)
include_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/feed.php' );
// Get a SimplePie feed object from the specified feed source.
$rss = fetch_feed( 'https://dotlayer.com/feed/' );
if ( ! is_wp_error( $rss ) ) : // Checks that the object is created correctly
// Figure out how many total items there are, but limit it to 5.
$maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity( 5 );
// Build an array of all the items, starting with element 0 (first element).
$rss_items = $rss->get_items( 0, $maxitems );
endif;
?>
<ul>
<?php if ( $maxitems == 0 ) : ?>
<li><?php _e( 'No items', 'my-text-domain' ); ?></li>
<?php else : ?>
<?php // Loop through each feed item and display each item as a hyperlink. ?>
<?php foreach ( $rss_items as $item ) : ?>
<li>
<a href="<?php echo esc_url( $item->get_permalink() ); ?>"
title="<?php printf( __( 'Posted %s', 'my-text-domain' ), $item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a') ); ?>">
<?php echo esc_html( $item->get_title() ); ?>
</a>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</ul>
