WordPress RSS Feed Plugin Breakdown: 5 Best Picks for Content Curation

Modern audiences expect all the content they can get their hands on. They want to have as many choices as possible all the time and they expect this even from growing websites. If you can’t afford a full-time team of content creators (and who can?), plugins for content curation can be a fantastic alternative.

With the right plugin, you can aggregate and curate content from external sources. You can transform your website into a content hub, a news aggregator, or supplement your own blog posts with entries from other sites (with proper attribution),

In this article, we’ll introduce you to five of the best WordPress RSS feed plugins for content curation. We’ll talk about how each works, its key features, and help you choose which one to use.

1. WP RSS Aggregator

WP RSS Aggregator is the most popular RSS feed plugin for WordPress. You can use the plugin to import RSS feeds, curate the content that makes it onto your site, and configure how to display it.

The plugin features an easy-to-use interface and it makes it easy to add new feeds or sources. You can configure how often WP RSS Aggregator imports content, set it to display sources automatically, and also curate YouTube videos and podcast sources. 

With WP RSS Aggregator, you can manage multiple feeds and import content as feed items or custom posts. Depending on your license, you can import RSS feed content as full posts (using Aggregator’s Feed-to-Post feature).

WP RSS Aggregator licenses can also help you integrate the plugin with AI content-spinning tools. You can use these to spin content before republishing it on your site, giving you access to endless curated posts.

Key Features:

• Automatically aggregate content from RSS feeds and post it
• Import content in full using the Feed-to-Post feature
• Filter content using keywords, categories, and tags 
• Use customizable displays to show curated content
• Works with page builder plugins, like Elementor
• Automatically include attribution information

Best For: Blogs, content hubs, news aggregators, and any site that can benefit from publishing content regularly.

Why It’s Great for Curation: WP RSS Aggregator enables you to curate content using keyword and tag filters. These filters allow a great deal of customization, which can help you configure exactly what kind of content you want to see.

The All Access license also gives you access to integrations with AI content-spinning tools. You can use these tools to help you automatically spin content imported through WP RSS Aggregator to publish unique, curated content.

Pricing: There’s a free version of WP RSS Aggregator. Premium licenses start at $79 per year and give you access to features such as additional display templates, post-scheduling, and integrations.

2. Feedzy RSS Feeds

Feedzy is a highly flexible RSS feed aggregator. It’s very lightweight in terms of performance and it lets you add new feed sources easily. 

The plugin enables you to import content from unlimited sources and choose how to display it. Aside from its built-in placement features, shortcodes, and blocks, Feedzy also works with popular page builders such as Elementor.

The premium version of Feedzy includes additional features, such as keyword filtering, importing full content from RSS feeds, automatic translations, and tools for adding affiliate links to imported content.

Key Features:

• Add responsive feed display using shortcodes, blocks, and widgets
• Compatibility with popular page builders
• Automatically publish content as posts, pages, or custom post types
• Use keywords to filter imported feed content

Best For: Website owners looking for a lightweight RSS feed plugin that also includes content curation capabilities. It also offers good compatibility with page builders, and if you run a multilingual website, Feedzy can help you automatically translate content (with a premium license).

Why It’s Great for Curation: The premium version of Feedzy includes automatic keyword filtering for imported content. Feedzy’s light performance footprint is also a plus if you’re dealing with large numbers of feeds.

Pricing: You can download a free version of Feedzy. Premium licenses start at $99 per year and depending on the license, you can get access to features such as keyword filtering and importing feed images.

3. WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher

WPeMatico is a plugin that specializes in fetching and auto-posting content from RSS feeds to your WordPress website. You can configure the plugin to publish that content as posts, pages, and even custom post types.

The interface when adding and configuring RSS feed sources feels very much like classic WordPress.  

WPeMatico gives you a lot of configuration options when importing content. You can enable or disable comments for entries, strip all links and HTML tags from the content, and more. It also supports importing images and other media files, like audio and video, alongside the rest of the content.

The plugin also gives you a lot of control over scheduling RSS importing tasks. You can configure how often the plugin updates its sources down to the minute, in case you need to be precise.

Key Features:

• Automatically fetch content from RSS feeds and import entries as posts, pages, or custom post types
• Import images and other media files alongside the rest of the content
• Filter content using keywords 
• In-depth scheduling tools

Best For: WPeMatico is a great option for users who need full control over when their RSS feed plugin imports content. It also supports importing video and audio content, which can come in handy with some types of specific feeds.

Why It’s Great for Curation: Depending on which version of WPeMatico you use, you can have access to keyword filtering tools. You can combine keyword filters with automatic publishing to send out curated content on autopilot. 

Pricing: WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher offers a free version. There are also multiple premium plans starting at $82 per year that give access to different sets of features, such as full-content importing and more options for importing media files.

4. WP Content Pilot

WP Content Pilot lets you take RSS feeds, import their content, and publish it on your site. This all happens automatically, as with other WordPress RSS feed plugins.

What sets WP Content Pilot apart is that it supports a lot of additional source types beyond RSS feeds. You can use WP Content Pilot to import and re-publish entries and content from Envato, Flickr, and YouTube. With a premium license, you can also import content from Amazon, Twitter, eBay, Facebook, ClickBank, Pinterest, Reddit, and more.

The plugin also includes filtering tools to curate content. However, the options for content curation vary depending on the type of source you use. If you’re using RSS feeds as a source, WP Content Pilot enables you to filter content using keywords and minimum word counts (which can be useful to exclude content like site announcements).

Key Features:

• Import and curate content from RSS feeds and other platforms like Amazon, YouTube, and eBay
• Publish imported content as posts, pages, or custom posts
• Control how your published content looks using a template editor
• Spin imported content using integrations with AI tools
• Monetize content using affiliate marketing integrations

Best For: Website owners looking to import content from as broad a roster of sources as possible. If you want to import content from RSS feeds and other sources, WP Content Pilot might just support the ones you’re looking for.

Why It’s Great for Curation: WP Content Pilot offers a similar set of content curation tools to other plugins we’ve talked about so far. The curation features you get access to will depend on what source you want to use, though, so your experience can be wholly different from that of other users based on that.

Pricing: The free version of WP Content Pilot supports RSS feed sources among others. A lot of third-party sources, including Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook, are only available with a Pro license. WP Content Pilot licenses start at $99 per year.

5. Super RSS Reader

Super RSS Reader is a simple plugin that lets you display content from RSS feeds using a widget you can place anywhere on your site. The widget can support multiple sources, separating them with tabs.

You can choose from different display styles for that RSS feed widget, including a live news ticker, perfect for something like showing quick market updates to your audience. The widget itself comes with a handful of customization options, such as choosing to display featured images, author and date information, post descriptions, and more.

More advanced widget customization options are limited to the premium version of the plugin, the same as with its keyword filtering functionality.

Key Features:

• Use a highly customizable widget to display content from one or more RSS feed sources
• Curate content from RSS feeds using keywords
• Place the widget anywhere you want on your website and customize its style

Best For: Users looking to limit RSS feed content to a single widget, which you can place in the sidebar or anywhere you want in the site’s layout.

Why It’s Great for Curation: Super RSS Reader includes keyword filtering functionality with its premium version. It also does this at much lower prices than other similar plugins since it’s limited to displaying RSS feed content in a widget instead of letting you publish it anywhere on your site.

Pricing: There’s a free version of Super RSS Reader. Premium licenses start at $25 per year and they give you access to features such as using shortcodes to place the widget, grid displays, and keyword filtering.

What Will You Pick?

The best RSS feed plugins for content curation have one thing in common and that is automation. These plugins, by and large, help you import content from RSS feeds, filter it, and configure how it shows on your site. The specifics vary from plugin to plugin but, at a minimum, you want your pick to offer automation and curation features.

If you’re on the fence about which plugin to use, all of our picks offer free versions. Test them and see which one offers the best user experience for your needs.