DaazSync – RSS News Aggregator vs RSS Image Widget

DaazSync turns any WordPress site into a real-time news hub. Point it at any RSS or Atom feed, choose a layout and paste a shortcode — your curated news section is live in minutes. No coding. No page-builder lock-in. No external dependencies. ✅ Everything You Need — Completely Free 5 Ready-to-Use Display Layouts Pick the layout that fits your design and switch it per shortcode: Grid — responsive card grid, ideal for magazine-style pages and news portals List — clean vertical list, perfect for sidebars and content-heavy pages Carousel — auto-playing or click-to-advance article slider Hero — large featured article with supporting cards alongside Minimal — ultra-light display for footers, widgets and embeds Unlimited RSS / Atom Feeds Add as many sources as you need. Each feed gets its own category, enabling tight per-shortcode filtering without any extra configuration. Powerful Shortcode System One shortcode gives you full control over every news block: [newssync layout="grid" limit="6" category="Tech"] Available attributes: layout — grid, list, carousel, hero, minimal limit — how many articles to display category — show only feeds from a specific category offset — skip the first N articles (great for multi-column layouts) orderby / order — sort by date or title, ascending or descending show_image, show_date, show_excerpt, show_source — toggle each element independently excerpt_length — set how many words appear in the preview Auto-Import as WordPress Posts Enable the built-in scheduler and new articles from your feeds become real WordPress posts — fully searchable, categorisable and SEO-friendly. Run imports on a schedule or trigger them manually from the dashboard. Smart Caching Each feed is cached independently as a WordPress transient. You control the duration. Zero front-end API calls — output is clean, static HTML. Works Everywhere Compatible with the Gutenberg editor (Shortcode block), Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, the Classic Editor and any PHP template. 🚀 Take It Further with DaazSync PRO DaazSync PRO is a premium add-on that extends the free plugin with advanced tools for demanding publishers, agencies and power users. Keyword Filtering per Shortcode Display only articles that match specific topics — using simple OR logic or precise AND-groups to show articles at the intersection of two subjects: [newssync keyword_filter="AI,machine learning|crypto,blockchain,DeFi"] → Shows only articles that mention both AI and a crypto topic. Site-Wide Advanced Filtering Set global include and exclude keyword rules from the admin panel. Every shortcode on every page respects them automatically. Full-Text Extraction Standard RSS feeds only carry a short excerpt. PRO fetches the full article body from the source page — ideal for richer display or AI summaries. AI-Powered Article Summaries Auto-generate article summaries in your language using OpenAI (GPT-4o), Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini or any custom API provider. Bring your own key — no middleman markup. Managed Feeds Dashboard A production-ready feed management table with live status indicators, one-click manual refresh, last-import timestamps and per-feed error reporting. Detailed Import Logs Per-article status, error traces and batch timing — so you always know exactly what happened during an import and can diagnose feed problems in seconds. Priority Support Direct email support with a guaranteed 48-hour response. Upgrade to PRO → 👤 Who Uses DaazSync? Bloggers and content creators who want to automatically embed related news inside their posts News portals aggregating content from multiple sources into topic-based sections Agencies managing multiple client sites that need automated, always-fresh news areas Niche communities curating content around tech, crypto, finance, sport or any other topic Corporate intranets surfacing industry news for internal teams without manual curation ⚡ Get Started in 3 Steps Activate DaazSync and go to DaazSync → Feeds Add your first RSS/Atom feed and assign it a category Paste [newssync layout="grid" limit="6"] into any page That’s it — your live news feed is ready.

RSS Image Widget fetches images from any RSS/Atom feed that uses enclosures and displays them in a responsive grid with a built-in lightbox. Works as both a classic widget and a Gutenberg block. Features: Widget + Block — Use in sidebars (classic widget) or anywhere in the block editor Lightweight — No jQuery, no external CDN. Just a tiny vanilla JS lightbox (~2 KB) Responsive grid — CSS Grid layout adapts to any container width Lazy loading — Images use native browser lazy loading Accessible — Lightbox supports keyboard navigation (Escape to close) Zero configuration — Just add a feed URL and go Upgrading from v2.x: The Bootstrap classes (row, col-xs-12) and external Lightbox2 CDN have been replaced with clean semantic HTML, a responsive CSS Grid layout, and a bundled vanilla JS lightbox. If you had custom CSS targeting the old classes, you will need to update it to use the new .rss-image-gallery BEM classes.