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rssLinkList is definitely one of my favorite plugins. For those interested in giving it a try, version 0.8 can be downloaded from the WP plugin db. Note: This plugin has changed it’s name from rssLinkList to Feed List. Please use this new version of the plugin if you are running a newer version of WordPress.

While it isn’t necessarily one of the easiest plugins to install, the time saved by not having to go check multiple sites for most recent info greatly outways the 10-15 minutes it took to get it working.

Here is a list of parameters that the rssLinkList plugin can accept [ from the author, Bill Rawlinson’s readme.txt file ] :

* rss_feed_url (default: “http://del.icio.us/rss”) - The URL of the Del.icio.us RSS Feed
* num_items (default: 15) - The number of items to display
* show_description (default: true) - Whether or not to display the “description” field
* random (default: false) - Whether or not to randomize the items
* before (default: “<li>”) - Tag placed before the item
* after (default: “<li>”) - Tag placed after the item
* description_seperator (default: ” - “) - Between the link and the item
* encoding (default: false) - Change to true if you are reading in a ISO-8859-1 formatted file.
* sort (default: “none”) - takes one of three values; none, asc, desc

• none - doesn’t sort and leaves your existing code as is
• asc - sorts the results in alphabetic order (by title)
• desc - sorts in reverse alphabetic order (by title)

Here are a few examples of it’s usage [ also from readme.txt ] :

combine 1 or more feeds -

<ol>
<?php
rssLinkList(”http://del.icio.us/rss/finalcut”);
rssLinkList(”http://www.43things.com/rss/uber/author?username=Final”);
?>
</ol>

multiple paramaters set -

<ol>
<?php rssLinkList(”http://www.auf-der-hoehe.de/”,10,false,true,”<li>”,”",”-”,true); ?>
</ol>