<?php
$values = get_post_custom_values("rss_url");
$rss_url = $values[0];
if ($rss_url) {
// Load the XML file into a Simple XML object
$feed = simplexml_load_file($rss_url);
if ($feed) {
echo "Feeds";
echo "";
// Iterate through the list and create the unordered list
foreach ($feed->channel->item as $item) {
echo 'link .’” title=”‘ . htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($item->description)) . ‘ “>’ . $item->title . ‘‘;
}
echo “”;
}
}
?>


Using your example:

<?php
// Get the first value for rss_url
$values = get_post_custom_values(”rss_url”);
$rss_url = $values[0];

if ($rss_url) {
// Load the XML file into a Simple XML object
$feed = simplexml_load_file($rss_url);
if ($feed) {
echo “Recent Posts From This Blog”;
echo “”;
// Iterate through the list and create the unordered list
foreach ($feed->channel->item as $item) {
echo ‘link .’” title=”‘ . htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($item->description)) . ‘ “>’ . $item->title . ‘‘;
}
echo “”;
}
}
?>

Bonus feature here :-): Using the title attribute on the anchor tag (a href=) means that on hovering the link a preview of the feed’s description is displayed (the socalled “tooltip”).

Ronald

I take that back, a modified version of Magpie is included with Wordpress, but I find that SimplePie is much easier to work with and more robust at parsing the RSS feeds.