DaazSync – RSS News Aggregator vs WP Notes 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.

WP Notes Widget PRO is now available WP Notes Widget PRO offers the following additional features: Note Categories Shortcodes Insert notes in posts, pages, and other post types (not just widget areas) Order notes in ascending or descending order Ability to remove all Web Rockstar branding and callouts in WordPress admin Get WP Notes Widget PRO Posts and pages have their own characteristics and uses, but sometimes there is a need to display important, very short, time sensitive information which don’t really fit into a post or page. WP Notes Widget fills this gap. The visual design is similar to real sticky notes which adds to the effective communication of the message. With WP Notes Widget you can: attach an image, audio, or video to a note attach a link to either an uploaded file, a link from your website, or a link to another website integrate with your twitter account to automatically tweet your notes select the font style, font size, font color, and background color of notes select which notes appear on a specific widget post date notes to appear at a certain date/time set notes to expire at a certain date/time (with additional, free plugin) Enhancements To further enhance the functionality of WP Notes Widget you can install these great plugins: Post Expirator by Aaron Axelsen Post Types Order by Nsp Code You can also take advantage of some built in WordPress functionality which you may not have explored yet: ‘post dating’ notes so that they only appear once a certain date and time has been reached WP Notes Widget has also been designed to work with WPML. Newsletter Sign up for the Web Rockstar newsletter to receive occassional updates and news on new plugins and udpates: Newsletter Sign Up Videos Take a look at these tutorial videos to learn more about how WP Notes Widget works: