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My Favourite Wordpress plugin (at the moment)

inlineRSS - this allows you to transform XML type feeds using XSL. This means you can make any feeds you want to show on your sight look exactly as you want. The only real requirement is that the server you run it on needs to be able to parse xsl (PHP 5’s xsltProcessor or PHP 4’s domxml or XSLT).

Unfortunately it’s doesn’t work on this server it does work on my other blog. On this site I wanted to show images from my Picasa feed rather than from flickr (there seem to be many WP plugins that do this). I use Picasa because the application is great to use at home and uploading images is really easy. I always found flickr a bit of faff.

Anyway if you want to use inlineRSS to do the same thing here is the xsl file that I use. I have put the actual image as a background image so I can center it vertically feel free to hack it though!

I have also made use of the last.fm xsl available from iconophobia.com - of course I have altered this too.

With a bit of thought you can probably manipulate any feed you can find with this plugin - I thin it’s pretty good!

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