In the previous 2 WordPress Plugin Tutorials I showed you how to create a great WordPress Plugin template you could use to make your own. Here they are if you missed them : WordPress Plugin Howto and WordPress Plugin Howto Pt 2.
The only two capabilities I left out in those tutorials is how to add shortcode capabilities and an uninstall script. In this tutorial I’ll cover that code.
In this WordPress video tutorial, I’ll show you how to create Shortcodes in WordPress.
A Shortcode is a WordPress specific way to add cool functionality with little to no effort. In this tutorial I’ll create a Shortcode function that will automatically jump out to any RSS feed and grab as many articles titles as you want.
So, if you want to display the top five articles on the New York Times website you can just type in the following: [nttfeedme blog_title=”New York Times” feed=”http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/HomePage” num=”5″]
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