With this plugin, you can display a list of the latest news (by Google News) given localization (country/language), search word(s) or topic and the number of latest news you want to show. The list look & feel is customizable too. It works as a widget or shortcode (in post/pages), so you can show your news in any widget-ready are of your wordpress blog or any post or page of your choice
Installation:
Download this plugin from [Stefania's blog] (http://www.stefaniamarchisio.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/google-news-widget.zip), unzip it (you will have a directory with 2 files: the plugin php file and this readme.txt you are reading, upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory of your wordpress.
OR
From Plugins->Installed of your wordpress administration, select “Add new”, search for “google news widget” into the search text-box and select ‘Install’ when prompted with this plugin.
Activate the plugin through the Plugins-> Installed page into your WordPress administration page
See Usage below for instruction on how to use it.
faq:
Why the heck would I need/want it?
Well, it provides the latest news on any subject you want to choose in real time: can you imagine what boost of traffic can it bring to your blog? Let’s pretend you write about volleyball, knitting or lactose-intolerance. You just need to enter the relevant words in the Keyword(s) field or select a topic and wait for google to display the latest news on your subject.
Hey, I cannot find any configuration page in ‘Settings’ How does it work?
As a widget, you drag and drop the widget to any widget-ready area of your theme, open the widget form, choose localization, key(s)/topic, list type, target and news number and click on ‘Save’ button. That’s all.
As a shortcode, you select the HTML view of your post/page form editor and
Google News Widget 0.3
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