[SOLVED] RSS Block module - show post excerpt

[babyewok]

Hi,

I want to use the RSS block mpdule to show latest posts from my Wordpress blog. So far, it only shows the title which links to the relevant post - how do I get it to show a 'teaser' excerpt of the post itself?

[rocky]

Try changing line 107 of modules/blockrss/blockrss.php from:

$rss_links[] = array('title' => $item->title, 'url' => $item->link);

to:

$rss_links[] = array('title' => $item->title, 'url' => $item->link, 'content' => $item->getContent());

Then adding the following to modules/blockrss/blockrss.tpl:

{$rss_link.content|truncate:35}

[babyewok]

Thanks - I'll give it a try!

[babyewok]

No, it didn't work, unfortunately - I still just get the title of the post. Any other ideas?

[rocky]

Sorry. If that doesn't work, I don't know what will.

[babyewok]

Woohoo! I got it working!!

Before I tried your suggestion, I had already tried:

$rss_links[] = array('title' => $item->title, 'url' => $item->link, 'content' => $item->description); 

When neither that or your suggestion worked, I went to my wordpress files and FINALLY found one of the files dealing with RSS and it uses 'content' not description, so I change dthe line ot read:

$rss_links[] = array('title' => $item->title, 'url' => $item->link, 'content' => $item->content); 

Et voila!! It now works. I used the same code that you suggested for the tpl file to truncate the post to just a few words.

Would be handy if the block rss module had this option built in....

[zwacklmann]

Woohoo!

in deed.

Thank you guys for this useful thread!

[dambie]

How get date from wordpress rss ?

'date' => date("d-m-Y", ($item->pubDate))

[Kstyle001]

Bump,

 

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