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Actual PluginRSS output

This banner uses PluginRSS to display an RSS feed from tiki.org, plus an image from the themes.tiki.org file gallery.

The problems shown here:

  • The information produced by the RSS feed is overly technical and repetitive rather than natural language. It's not clear how to fix this on the receiving end. It seems like it needs to be improved at the output/creation end.
  • While the number of items display can be limited to one, the sorting of items is most-distant first. It might be possible to use CSS to hide all items but the nearest upcoming one, which I'll try if a sort order parameter isn't added to PluginRSS soon.

Tiki birthday
Wed 08 of Oct, 2025
Tiki birthday Start: Wednesday 08 October 2025 06:00:00 GMT-0000 End: Thursday 09 October 2025 05:59:59 GMT-0000 Tiki is born on 2002-10-08

Mockup of better output

This banner is a mockup to demonstrate what the ideal output might be. PluginRSS isn't used here; the content was added by hand.

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Wed 17 of Jul, 2024 04:49 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Added a point about the default RSS link. 5
Wed 17 of Jul, 2024 04:35 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Added response buttons to mockup banner. 4
Tue 16 of Jul, 2024 08:38 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Added "Coming up:" to summary. 3
Tue 16 of Jul, 2024 08:34 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee No need for "Start" text. 2
Tue 16 of Jul, 2024 08:30 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Examples copied to this site and updated, with notes. 1