Rssemble Cards for RSS Feeds fetches multiple RSS feeds and displays them as image card grids using OGP images. It runs entirely on WordPress built-in features (SimplePie, transients, DOMDocument) — no external services required.
Key features:
- Aggregates multiple RSS feeds with URL-based deduplication (newest date wins)
- Automatic OGP image retrieval (priority: media:content → enclosure → og:image → default image)
- Parallel OGP fetching via curl_multi (respects WP proxy settings and SSL verification)
- 8 layout types: grid, list, list_vertical, text, text_line, image_only, carousel, popup_grid
- Responsive layout (3 columns on desktop, 2 on tablet, 1 on mobile — configurable)
- FSE theme color variable support (–wp–preset–color–*) with fallback
- Hover zoom + shadow effect on cards
- Transient-based caching (no WP-Cron required)
- Configurable RSS cache duration (12 hours / 1 day / 1 week / 1 month)
- OGP image URL cached for 1 month (includes negative cache for failed fetches)
- Stale cache fallback when a feed fetch fails
- Admin UI with live preview (desktop / tablet / mobile width switching)
- Compatible with object cache (Redis, Memcached) and Cloudflare
Usage
Basic:
[rssecafo]
With parameters:
[rssecafo columns="4" count="8"]
[rssecafo columns="2" count="6" feed="https://example.com/feed"]
[rssecafo orderby="random" target="_self"]
Parameter reference:
- columns : Number of columns (2 / 3 / 4). Default: admin setting.
- count : Number of items to display. Default: admin setting.
- feed : Comma-separated feed URL(s). Default: all registered feeds.
- orderby : Sort order (date / random). Default: date.
- target : Link target (_blank / _self). Default: admin setting.
- type : Display type (grid / list / list_vertical / text / text_line / image_only / carousel / popup_grid).
- date : Show date (1 / 0). Default: 1.
- site : Show site name (1 / 0). Default: 0.
- desc : Show description (1 / 0). Default: 0.
- bold : Bold title (1 / 0). Default: 0.
- responsive : Responsive columns (1 / 0). Default: 1.
- title_lines: Maximum title lines (1 / 2 / 3). Default: admin setting.
- img : Override default image URL.