About
“Live news teaches you some incredibly strong lessons: that every day is a new day, and it’s never too late to fix something”. Similarly, this News / RSS Importer & Aggregator Plugin will keeps you updated everyday, everytime. As this plugin provides you with some advanced features like you can create news with custom publish date, continue reading option, locations, multiple photos upload, reviews, etc. and also you can add RSS links which will help you to fetch many latest news at a single time and also your users can subscribe these RSS news for which they will get the timely updates.
News / RSS Importer & Aggregator Plugin provides you with unique and attractive views of news which will enable you to highlight and showcase your news easily on your website. Here, you can create the news in different categories according to the interests of your users which will help them to get the latest news of their interests.
Why Should I have this Plugin?
- If you want to make a News-Based Website then this plugin is the best choice for you.
- News / RSS Importer & Aggregator Plugin is highly customizable which will help to configure various settings.
- You can also fetch the news by using the RSS links which will help you in creating more and latest news in less time.
- Users can subscribe the RSS news according to their interests which will be beneficial for them as they will be updated with the latest news everytime.
- Here, you can make your news more attractive through different Slideshows, Carousel, Banners, etc.
Key Features
Unlimited News and RSS Importing
- By using this plugin, you can create unlimited News and RSS and if you want to limit the creation of news and rss according to different member levels then you can change it from the Member Level Settings also.
- Member Level Settings is divided into two parts, one is for News and one is for RSS and according to your requirements you can change various settings for both separately.
Configurable Dimensions for News Photos
- Admin can configure the Height and Width for the Large photo of the News which is shown at the various places like in the lightbox and in “News Photo View Page”.
- Admin can manage the height and width of Medium Photos also which is shown at various widgets and pages of this plugin.
Custom Publish Date
- You can customize the publish date for any news. At the time of creation of news, you can enter the date and time for any news and the news will activate accordingly.
- This settings can be enabled / disabled from the Admin Panel of this plugin.
Continue Reading Button
This feature helps your users to read the whole content of any news by clicking on the ‘Continue Reading’ Button. You can do the various settings for this Button:
- You can choose whether a user can read the whole content without logged-in or they have to login first after clicking on this button.
- You can enable / disable this setting for the News Creation Page.
- If you disable this button from the news creation page, then you have to enable / disable Continue Reading Button as default option.
RSS Settings & Subscription
Using this plugin, you can configure various settings for the RSS from the Admin Panel.
- You can enable / disable the RSS News and for this you have to get the Mercury Web Parser API Key.
- If you allow your users to Subscribe the RSS news then they can subscribe the RSS and gets the latest updates everytime related to the News they are subscribed to.
- You can enter the number of news to be fetched from the RSS at a single time.
- Cron Job Schedule is used to fetch the news from the RSS after the entered number of days.
- You can set the days for the removal of old news from the same settings.
4 Attractive Profile Designs
- Users can choose different Profile Design views for the News Profile Page from a choice of 4 designs.
- These Different widgetized pages will make news to be appeared more attractively on your website.
- Users can choose designs for their news from create and edit news pages.
- Admin can enable / disable this feature if required from the Admin panel of this Plugin.
Report, Share and Comment
- Users can Report any of the news, if they find them offensive / irrelevant.
- Users can share any News through various social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.
- Users can also comment on different News from various pages.
Manage News and RSS
These are two different pages which are managed by the Admin from the Admin Panel.
- These pages lists all the News and RSS created by the Users. Admin can manage these pages and can delete the offensive ones.
- From these pages, Admin can also mark any News as Featured, Sponsored, Hot, New, Verified or Of the Day.
News Categories & Custom Field
- Admins can create Parent categories, 2nd-level categories and 3rd-level categories for News which allows you to easily categorize News into various Categories, 2nd-level categories and 3rd-level categories of your choice.
- Categories can have Icon, Thumbnails, Description, Own Category Slug.
- You can create, add or remove the unlimited number of Custom Fields from the Form Questions section in Admin Panel.
- When you map the created custom fields with any category then on the creation of any news in that category will ask the same fields and will display it on the ‘News Profile Page’.
3 News Labels
- 3 labels can be displayed on your website for the news like Featured, Sponsored and Verified.
- These labels are decided by the Admin and help users to make their news more popular through these labels and this will help other users to get the best news and hence increase the visibility of news on your website.
Review and Ratings
- Members can give review and rate for News.
- Various Settings can be enabled / disabled for reviews for his own news.
- While creating any review for the news, you can give Pros and Cons, Description and Recommended Option.
- Reviews can be Shared and Reported.
- Rating Parameters can be added based on categories.
- Reviews can also be marked Featured, Verified and Of the Day from Admin Panel.
Blacklist URL
From the Admin Panel, Admin can Blacklist the URLs for the various RSS which will find out to be offensive / irrelevant, by doing this no one can use that URL on your website. Also Admin can enable / disable the status of the blacklisted URL.
Auto – Approve News / RSS
From the Admin Panel of this plugin, you can enable / disable the Auto-Approve feature for both News and RSS. If you enable it then, any news created will automatically be approved and if you disabled it, then only admin can have the right to approve that news.
Widgetized Pages
This plugin has many widgetized pages which will help you to create your News, RSS, will help you to see the content in various attractive views, slideshows, etc. With the help of these widgetized pages Admin can configure these pages as per choice from the layout editor in admin panel.
60+ Highly Configurable Widgets
For News / RSS Importer & Aggregator Plugin, we have various widgets with the help of which Admin can allow the site users to create as many news as they want. All the widgets are highly configurable.