RSS XML News Feeds Fetch using WordPress fetch_feed() - Best and Tested

rss-fetch-feed.php

<?php
/* 	=============== Starts: Shortcode to display RSS Feeds using WordPress fetch_feed() ================== */
/* 	Shortcode Example: [news_list]
	Example Feed URL:
	=> 'http://online.wsj.com/xml/rss/3_8068.xml'
	=> 'http://dealbook.nytimes.com/feed/'
	=> 'http://www.bloomberg.com/feed/bview/'
*/
function news_page_fx( $atts ) {
	extract( shortcode_atts( array(
		'feed_url' => 'http://online.wsj.com/xml/rss/3_8068.xml',
		'title' => 'Market Headlines',
	), $atts ) ); 
	ob_start();
	
		$feed_url = htmlspecialchars_decode($feed_url);
		$rss = fetch_feed($feed_url);
		if ( ! is_wp_error( $rss ) ) :
			$maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity( 20 );
			$rss_items = $rss->get_items( 0, $maxitems );
			
			foreach ( $rss_items as $item ) :
				$news_title = $item->get_title();
				$news_date = $item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a');
				$news_link = $item->get_permalink();
				$news_description = $item->get_description();
			?>
	
			<div class="entry">
				<div class="entrycontent">
					<h2><a href="<?php echo $news_link; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $news_title; ?></a></h2>
					<p><span class="date"><?php echo $news_date; ?></span></p>
					<p><?php echo $news_description; ?></p>
				</div>
			</div>

		<?php 
		endforeach;
		endif;
		libxml_use_internal_errors(false);
		$output_string = ob_get_contents();
		ob_end_clean();
		return $output_string;
}
add_shortcode( 'news_list', 'news_page_fx' );
/* 	Ends: Shortcode to display RSS News Feeds */
?>