=== FeedWordPress === Contributors: radgeek Donate link: https://fwpplugin.com/donate/ Tags: syndication, aggregation, feed, atom, rss Requires at least: 4.5 Tested up to: 6.9 Stable tag: 2025.1211 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

FeedWordPress syndicates content from feeds you choose into your WordPress weblog.

== Description ==

Author: C. Johnson
Project URI: http://fwpplugin.com/
License: GPL 2. See License below for copyright jots and tittles.

FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress weblog, and then the content it syndicates appears as a series of special posts in your WordPress posts database. If you syndicate several feeds then you can use WordPress's posts database and templating engine as the back-end of an aggregation ("planet") website. It was developed, originally, as a utility/hobby project, because I needed a more flexible replacement for Planet for aggregator sites that I administered.

FeedWordPress is designed with flexibility, ease of use, and ease of configuration in mind. You'll need a working installation of WordPress (version 4.5 or later), and it helps to have SFTP or FTP access to your web host. The ability to create cron jobs on your web host is helpful but not required.

== Installation ==

To use FeedWordPress, you will need:

an installed and configured copy of WordPress (version 4.5 or later).
the ability to install new plugins on your site using either WordPress's Plugins Repository, SFTP, FTP or shell access to your web host

= New Installations =

Download the FeedWordPress installation package and extract the files on your computer.
Create a new directory named feedwordpress in the wp-content/plugins directory of your WordPress installation. Use an FTP or SFTP client to upload the contents of your FeedWordPress archive to the new directory that you just created on your web host.
Log in to the WordPress Dashboard and activate the FeedWordPress plugin.
Once the plugin is activated, a new Syndication section should appear in your WordPress admin menu. Click here to add new syndicated feeds, set up configuration options, and determine how FeedWordPress will check for updates. For help, see the FeedWordPress Quick Start page.

= Upgrades =

To upgrade an existing installation of FeedWordPress to the most recent release:

Download the FeedWordPress installation package and extract the files on your computer.
Upload the new PHP files to wp-content/plugins/feedwordpress, overwriting any existing FeedWordPress files that are there.
Log in to your WordPress administrative interface immediately in order to see whether there are any further tasks that you need to perform to complete the upgrade.
Enjoy your newer and hotter installation of FeedWordPress!

== Using and Customizing FeedWordPress ==

FeedWordPress has many options which can be accessed through the WordPress Dashboard, and a lot of functionality accessible programmatically through WordPress templates or plugins. For further documentation of the ins and outs, see the documentation at the FeedWordPress project homepage.

== Screenshots ==

Syndicated Sites Settings
Dashboard widget for Syndicated Sources
Feed and Update Settings (single feed)
Feed and Update Settings (defaults for all feeds)

== Changelog ==

= 2025.1209 =

COMPATIBILITY FIXES FOR WORDPRESS 6.9 (Fixes "PHP Fatal error: Cannot make static method SimplePie\Parser::declare_html_entities() non static in class FeedWordPie_Parser" error, "PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Return value of SimplePie\File::get_headers() must be of the type array, null returned" error, or "PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Argument 1 passed to SimplePie\File::SimplePie\{closure}() must be of the type string, array given" error after WordPress 6.9 upgrade): This version includes fixes to critical compatibility issues with WordPress 6.9 and WP 6.9's upgrade to SimplePie 1.9.0+. If you recently upgraded to WordPress 6.9 and noticed problems with updating or accessing your site, or messages about a "Critical issue" or fatal PHP errors in the interface or your error logs then a quick upgrade to this point release should hopefully resolve that issue for you.

= 2024.1119 =

COMPATIBILITY FIX FOR WORDPRESS 6.7 (Fixes "Uncaught TypeError: Argument 1 passed to SimplePie\Cache\BaseDataCache::__construct() must implement interface SimplePie\Cache\Base" error after WordPress 6.7 upgrade): This version includes a fix to a critical compatibility issue with SimplePie 1.8.0+'s new requirements for namespaced classes and interfaces. (Updating to WordPress 6.7 also means that you get an update to a more recent version of SimplePie included with the platform; unfortunately, the new version of SimplePie introduces code changes which are no doubt a good idea in the long run, but which broke backward compatibility with the technique that FeedWordPress uses to extend SimplePie classes.) If you recently upgraded to WordPress 6.7 and noticed that FeedWordPress suddenly stopped updating, or that you started seeing messages about a "Critical issue" or fatal PHP errors in the interface or your error logs -- especially when attempting to check feeds for updates within the FeedWordPress admin interface -- then a quick upgrade to this point release should hopefully resolve that issue for you.

= 2024.0511 =

COMPATIBILITY FIX FOR "Uncaught TypeError: in_array()" ERROR: This version includes a fix to a fatal error that some users encountered with some versions of PHP 8. If after upgrading to a recent version of FeedWordPress, you encountered a message about a "critical error" or error messages indicating something like "Uncaught TypeError: in_array() Argument #2", then a couple of code changes in this version should hopefully resolve that error for you.

= 2024.0428 =

IMPORTANT SECURITY FIX: This version includes an important fix for a security vulnerability reported to me through Wordfence and WordPress support channels.

Vulnerability CVE-2024-0839 allowed for an insecure Direct Object Reference which could allow contents of Private, Pending, or otherwise non-Published post objects to be accessed by an attacker possessing or generating the internal guid URI of the post object. This vulnerability has been eliminated in the current version; to protect your site's security PLEASE BE SURE TO UPGRADE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to version 2024.0428 or later, via the WordPress Plugin Repository or via Github.
ADDITIONAL COMPATIBILITY FIXES AND CODE CLEANUP: This version includes numerous fixes to improve compatibility fixes for ongoing new releases of PHP, and does some additional code clean-up to remove some obsolete methods of generating output, and to do a better job of sanitizing input and escaping output in the FeedWordPress administrative dashboard. It features numerous fixes and improvements contributed by user @GwynethLlewelyn and several new hooks allowing for translation of interface elements.

= 2022.0222 =

ADDITIONAL CODE CLEANUP: This version does some additional code clean-up to remove some obsolete methods of generating output, and to do a better job of sanitizing input and escaping output in the FeedWordPress administrative dashboard.

= 2022.0204 =

ADDITIONAL CODE CLEANUP: This version does some additional code clean-up to remove some obsolete methods of generating output, and to do a better job of sanitizing input and escaping output in the FeedWordPress administrative dashboard.

= 2022.0123 =

IMPORTANT SECURITY FIX: This version includes an important fix for a security vulnerability reported to me through WPScan and WordPress support channels.

Vulnerability CVE-2021-25055 allowed for an XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attack using a specially crafted URL for a page within the FeedWordPress admin interface. (To be exploited, an existing user with login credentials that allow them to access the FeedWordPress dashboard would have to follow the malicious URL and log in.) This vulnerability has been corrected in the current version; to protect your site's security PLEASE BE SURE TO UPGRADE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to version 2022.0123 or later, via the WordPress Plugin Repository or via Github.
BUG FIXES: Fixes a number of small possible bugs when creating new syndicated posts under unusual conditions -- a sanity check is built in to avoid infinite loops in case of certain unexpected error outcomes when creating new users; some more possible sources of PHP 8 "Countable" warnings are eliminated, etc.

= 2021.0713 =

WORDPRESS 5.6, 5.7.x COMPATIBILITY FIXES. This release introduces fixes to annoying or worse warnings resulting from the deprecation of WordPress's built-in WP_Feed_Cache class. This should resolve the problem if you are encountering annoying, worrying, or breaking problems related to the PHP warnings: "Deprecated: class-wp-feed-cache.php is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 5.6.0", and/or "Message: ./cache is not writable. Make sure you've set the correct relative or absolute path, and that the location is server-writable."
Fixes PHP warning for "count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in .../wp-content/plugins/feedwordpress/feedwordpress.php on line 1566"
Miscellaneous fixes for other missing variable and glob

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