You must have often seen in feed readers that RSS feeds are devoid of any styling. They will be missing the bling that you see in the actual post in the blogs. WordPress Plugin Feed Styler aims to correct this.
Feed Styler is a WordPress plugin for WordPress users who are comfortable with CSS and would like to be able to style their feeds. Feed Styler enables you to keep your existing class and ID style declarations in your content, but allows a different style to be applied to the feed of that same content. No longer do feeds have to be stripped of style and color.
Setting up Feed Styler is easy. Just upload it to your plugins folder. But if you want to use it, you need to have some knowledge of CSS. Then activate it in your WordPress dashboard. Now you are all set to start styling your RSS feed.
Go to Options —> Feed Styler and start writing the CSS code for the feed. You can even have a look at the sample screenshots on the plugin page on how the feed will look after styled.
Tips for styling your feed
- Keep it simple. Do not make your feeds jazzy and stylish. If you do that you may end up losing your readers.
- Style your images as they are the first to lose their styling in feeds.
- Use a light background and dark text color.
Did you like this plugin ? Will you use it or are already using it ? 