An Introduction to Feed to Post

Feed to Post, which is part of the Advanced Feeds Bundle is our most powerful and popular add-on.

It imports feed items as WordPress Posts or any other custom post type you might be using. Feed to Post add-on automatically populates your site with content from other sources. It can also be used to supplement your own content with the imported articles as posts. The posts then take after and adapt the look of your theme’s CSS or page builder.

Import as Posts or any Custom Post Type

Importing as posts allows you to

1. Import the content with the post titles
2. Import images, videos, and other media.
3. Use your own theme’s styling to display the posts.

Choose how to import the posts:

1. You can import and publish posts automatically.
2. You can import it into Drafts to review or make changes to the content before publishing.
3. You can import into different post formats such as standard and video; if the post formats are available on your site.

Set the Publish Date from Two Choices

1. When setting the publish date you have the option to use the original publish date from the original source, keeping the content in sync with the original source.
2. Set the date to be the time of import into your site.

Add a Link Back to the Original Source

Use the general link back to source option to apply site-wide, or use the append/prepend to content feature to add any content you want (including images and videos) to the start or end of every imported post from a specific source.

Set an Update Interval (Every How Often It Updates)

Not all sources need to be looking for new content every 15 minutes, which is why we provide you with the option to set each feed source to import at specific intervals. This ensures that your website’s performance remains at a good level.

Choose which Images to Use and How

The Feed to Post add-on allows you to choose whether to import images locally or use the ones from the original source, saving space on your site. You can:

1. Set the minimum dimensions for imported images
2. Set a featured image for each post and which image to use for it
3. Set a fallback featured image to use for those posts that don’t have any images themselves.

Assign Categories and Tags Automatically

Using the taxonomy (category and tag) options available, you can:

1. Assign categories and tags to posts automatically as they are imported.
2. Apply this to all sources, a specific source, or even specific posts from a source (based on keywords or phrases in the title and/or content).

Assign Any Author You Want

This option will allow you to set the imported Feed Item’s author along with the content. Alternatively, you can assign any existing user on your site as the author for the imported posts.

Import Youtube Videos Directly Into Posts

Using a Youtube RSS feed you can import videos from any channel or user directly into WordPress posts, creating a video feed anywhere across your WordPress site.

Import from Social Media Channels

Certain social media sites provide RSS feeds containing most of the content that you may want to import into your site. Subsidize existing content with social media feeds to keep your visitors intrigued.

Other Features...

• Limit or Trim the words in the content or excerpt to a certain number.
• Remove unwanted material (content, images, etc) from the imported posts’ content before it gets to your site.
• Retrieve data from any RSS tag in feed items, then store it in a custom meta field in the imported posts.
• WPML compatible.
• Multisite compatible