A while back I was ranting about sponsor provided feeds, the fact that many do not work well, do not work at all. I’m not taking it all back because some of them still suck. But…

Seems the RSS feed plug-in I was using was not all that hot. Funny it was the one that comes with newer Wordpress versions. It does not work that well.

The good news is, I found a much better plug-in that works much better with sponsor provided feeds, guess they are not all that bad..:)

The new plug-in is,  KB Advanced RSS Widget. Yes it’s a widget, if your not using them, your missing out.

Couple things I like about the plug-in; You can set it NOT to link to the feed title, a number of sponsor feeds do not have the title encoded for affiliates. You can also set the plug-in to hide the widget if the feed is down, no nasty feed not working messages. There are also a number of formatting options available, to make the feed show as you want.

So far I love the plug-in. Give it a try and let me know what you think.