RSS Factory (free version)
Version
3.0.0 (last update on Dec 13, 2011)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
4
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
20651
Date Added
26 June 2009
Editor's Note
- This extension requires registration to download.
easy Install & Uninstall
RSS Categories – an easy way to categorize your feeds, and group them by specific topics
Session based tracking of already readed news (Feeds will appear “unchecked” if they have already been read)
AdBanners & AdSense Integration
Customized output styles; all easy manageable through configuration
Automatic unpublishing of erroneous feeds
Refresh of feeds in CRON
easy CSS customization
easy Search through Feeds
What’s new? Well there is a lot...
Several code optimizations and bug fixing
Automatic refresh of feeds though a pseudo-CRON process
Preview of Feeds in Category List (optional)
Added Tabbed viewstyle to the available styles
Date Format Customization
FAVICONS for feeds (pulled from the feedsite or custom uploaded)
Color customization of overlib Output (although might be overridden by your template)
Font Size Customization for Overlib Output
Automatic Version Check – you can see if a new version is available
Improved Category management
Refresh of Feeds using AJAX (admin side only)
Automatic installation of module and mambot
New SEARCH mambot (allows you to search through feeds along with searching through content)
Known limitations:
Problems with some UTF-8 feeds if your site uses ISO encoding
There are some problems inserting Google Adsense code in TinyMCE WISIWYG editor; bypass it by switching WISIWYG editor off, changing the add content, then switching it back on.
Great free Rss aggregator. I used it from their versions in Joomla1.0 and was fascinated by the brilliance of this extension. It has some neat ideas that I did not recall seeing in other extensions, and they seemed to optimize the later versions since the news loads much faster now. GJ boys!
