In order for your FeedWordPress-enabled website to display information that will set off syndicated posts from original posts, or will provide attribution information about the original source of syndicated posts, you need to have a WordPress theme which takes advantage of the special template tags for syndicated posts that FeedWordPress makes available. You can accomplish this by working with your own WordPress template files to include this information; if you want to see it put into practice in working code, you can also look at any of several themes designed for FeedWordPress.

Template Tags

When activated, FeedWordPress makes the following functions available for use by template files in your WordPress theme:

• is_syndicated (): returns TRUE if a given post was syndicated from another website, or FALSE if it was originally posted here

• get_syndication_permalink () / the_syndication_permalink (): returns or outputs the URI of the original permalink for a syndicated post, on the source it was syndicated from

• get_syndication_source_link () / the_syndication_source_link (): returns or outputs the URI of the front page (not the feed) of the website a syndicated post was syndicated from

• get_syndication_source () / the_syndication_source (): returns or outputs the human-readable title of the website that a syndicated post was syndicated from

• get_syndication_feed () / the_syndication_feed (): returns or outputs the URI of the feed (not the front page) that a syndicated post was syndicated from

• get_syndication_feed_id (): returns the numerical ID of the WordPress Link object that represents the feed that a syndicated post was syndicated from

• get_syndication_feed_object (): returns a SyndicatedLink object representing the source that a syndicated post was syndicated from

• get_feed_meta ($key): in a post context, returns the value, if any,
  of the feed setting $key for the feed that this post was syndicated
  from

By default, FeedWordPress also places a filter on the standard functions
get_permalink() and the_permalink() that substitutes the URI returned by get_syndication_permalink () for the URI generated by WordPress. This means that by default the permalinks listed on your website and in your newsfeed will link to the location of the posts on the source website, not to their location on your website. You can switch this behavior on or off at Syndication –> Settings in the WordPress Dashboard.