RSS is still an active technology and this means that we can use it for a lot of cool things on our websites. In this article we will share with you 5 Best Free RSS Feed Plugins for WordPress.

FEEDZY RSS Feeds

Get this RSS feed plugin if you need an RSS importer with powerful features yet lightweight interface. Feedzy is a good fit for personal matters, but we mostly recommend it to business owners whose goal is to grow and monetize their websites and automate their work.

FEEDZY works through shortcodes, which means that you can add various feeds wherever you wish, like posts, pages and even to custom content types, right via the WordPress editor screen. In the premium version, the plugin does all the work you would otherwise do manually. It can be scheduled to automatically import multiple feeds from various sources in the same page or post via Import Setup Wizard. Furthermore, you can group the sources into categories and re-use them across your website anytime.

Once you activate a feed or category, the plugin starts to import the posts either by directly publishing them or by saving them as pending. The way the imported items are presented on the front-end is totally up to you. You can decide over the featured images, excerpts, post status and type, quantity, text length, and layout – FEEDZY provides three templates to choose from.

Another nice thing about this RSS feed plugin for WordPress is that you can filter articles by keywords, so you can choose to display only the ones that meet your criteria exactly. You can even aggregate multiple feeds together. Moreover, Feedzy automatically adds your affiliate or referral IDs to the links in the feed so you can make money if people click on the posts. How cool is that?

If you want to avoid publishing duplicate content on your site, FEEDZY PRO comes integrated with WordAI and SpinnerChief that can rewrite the original articles in a human, non-robotic style. The tools will be of help when you import a full-length article from external sources, which is also possible with FEEDZY. You are not limited to excerpts, you can actually fetch the full text from any feed, including product prices if you own an e-commerce business, for example. But the features don’t end here. The plugin keeps pace with the latest WordPress trends because it is integrated with Elementor and Gutenberg, which means that you can add feeds via their builder interface without trouble.

Last but not least, importing a significant number of external posts won’t be a burden because the plugin has feed caching, which means that the loading speed of your site won’t be affected at all.

You can also post your RSS feeds as widgets. To do that, go to Appearance / Widgets and drag the “RSS” widget to any widget area you want. This is a sample of how your imported feeds will look on the front-end. Cool, right?

RSSImport

Get this RSS feed plugin if you want to be able to import RSS feeds quickly and customize everything via shortcode editing on the fly, rather than through a Graphical User Interface. The plugin uses a lot of parameters inside the shortcode structure, which makes it very flexible.

RSSImport is a lightweight and straightforward WordPress plugin. You can use either a shortcode, a widget, or a PHP function to make it work. No extra clicks or hassle. This is a good example of how to be simple and efficient at the same time.

To use it as a widget, go to Appearance / Widgets, drag and drop the RSSImport button to any widget area, and fill in the empty fields. Click “Save” and you’re good to go.

To add a feed to a post or a page, copy and paste the shortcode where you want it to be displayed.

Here is an example.

Category Specific RSS feed Subscription

Get this RSS feed plugin if you publish a lot of different types of content and want to give your audience the option to subscribe to just what’s of interest to them.  You can also use this RSS WordPress plugin to display external feeds as well.

Whereas the other ones are about importing stuff, this one is about giving your readers the option to subscribe to category-specific RSS feeds on your blog. Say that you publish a lot of different content, and your audience might not be interested in all of it. For example, you have a “food” category and a “travel” category. Well, with this plugin, you can let people subscribe to each of these categories separately.

After installing the plugin, go to the Settings section in the wp-admin and then to Category Specific RSS. You’ll see a list of the categories that you can create a feed for.

You can also use the section for custom categories and point them to external sources. That being said, those external RSS feeds aren’t getting imported or anything, they are just links pointing to another site.

Now, you have three options when it comes to displaying your custom feed links: widget, shortcode, or a line of PHP code. I used the shortcode. Here’s what our list of feeds looks like when put on a sample page.

WP RSS Aggregator

Get this RSS feed plugin for WordPress if you’ll be working with multiple feeds at the same time. The plugin is quite friendly and intuitive, and it provides great management for each individual feed.

Install it, go to its section in the wp-admin, and it will guide you along through the settings. To add a feed, just click on “Add New,” set your preferences, and publish it. You can set it to remain active, so it can update automatically whenever there’s new content. After adding the RSS feed, you can click on “View Items” to see the articles currently in that feed.

WP RSS Aggregator also comes with a “Blacklist” section, so you can stop specific content from popping up.

Okay, so the next step after creating an RSS feed is to add it to your posts or pages. You can go to the text editor of a specific post, and you’ll see an icon labeled “WP RSS Aggregator Shortcode” there. After clicking it, you can select a given feed and add it as a shortcode. Here’s what it looks like once you save the page.

WPeMatico

Get this RSS feed plugin for WordPress if you want multi-language support and RSS feed automation with images.  The images from the RSS feeds are automatically uploaded and saved to the Media library. The plugin is very user-friendly.  Users can also automatically add categories from all posts.

WPeMatico is a plugin which supports multi-language, and users can choose to add images from the RSS feeds. The plugin is great for any blogger who wants to automatically generate and schedule content through RSS feeds, quickly and efficiently.

Here is the snap of this plugin in admin panel :