jekyll-rss-feed-output

Simple RSS feed output for Jekyll using a Liquid tag

About

I wanted to display blog posts on my website's homepage. The blog is a separate website so I just wanted to fetch the feed and output it as a list.

Feedzirra does most of the work. This is just a Ruby script to create a custom Liquid tag that accepts parameters.

I just wanted to share it in case anyone needed it.

Perquisites

Install feedzirra.

Using RubyGems

gem install feedzirra

Usage

Add feeddisplay.rb to your _plugins folder.

Displays the default limit of items:

{% feed_display http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss %}

Specify the number of items to display:

{% feed_display http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss 20 %}

The default limit is 10.

Plans

Make the output and options similar to WordPress widget options.

Put error checking for a bad feed URL:

Liquid Exception: undefined method `entries'