Title: WPGAlerts
Author: datainterlock
Published: <strong>April 20, 2014</strong>
Last modified: April 20, 2014

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# WPGAlerts

 By [datainterlock](https://profiles.wordpress.org/datainterlock/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wpgalerts.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://sna.wordpress.org/plugins/wpgalerts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://sna.wordpress.org/plugins/wpgalerts/#developers)

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## Description

WPGAlerts allows you to add custom Google Alert articles to your WordPress website.
Display up to 20 of these articles including the Author, Content and a Title linked
to the full article. WPGAlerts is an easy way to get current, relevant news onto
your WordPress site.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The main screen showing both the Google Alerts XML and the articles pulled from
   that alert.
 * [[
 * The configuration options under Settings/WPGAlerts
 * [[
 * Configuring a Google Alert

## Installation

 1. Upload all files to the `/wp-content/plugins/wpg-alerts` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Configure WPGAlerts through the ‘Settings/WPGAlerts’ menu in WordPress.
 4. Add Google Alert XML feed links to the WPGAlerts menu in WordPress.
 5. Choose which articles to show and check ‘Approved’ then ‘Update’.
 6. Add the shortcode [WPGAlerts] to any page or text widget to display the articles.

## FAQ

  I’m unable to delete articles

WPGAlerts checks the alerts whenever you open the WordPress/WPGAlerts menu and updates
the articles available. Because of this, any article that is currently listed on
the alert will be automatically replaced when you attempt to delete it. The only
way to remove the article is to (a) wait for the article to no longer be listed 
on the alert feed and then delete it or (b) delete the feed and then delete the 
article. You can also ‘Delete Old Articles’ which will delete all articles from 
the database. WPGAlerts will then reload the XML alerts and the database will then
only contain the newest articles from the feeds.

  Articles are not updating

Currently WPGAlerts only updates the articles available when you visit the WPGAlerts
page from the WordPress Admin panel. Because all articles require approval, WPGAlerts
does not automatically check feeds.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“WPGAlerts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ datainterlock ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/datainterlock/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpgalerts/), check 
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wpgalerts/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wpgalerts/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wpgalerts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

*Initial stable release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.9.40**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpgalerts/)
 * Tags
 * [alert](https://sna.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/alert/)[alerts](https://sna.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/alerts/)
   [google](https://sna.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google/)[news](https://sna.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/news/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://sna.wordpress.org/plugins/wpgalerts/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ datainterlock ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/datainterlock/)

## Support

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