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Getting Started
Installation & Setup
From zero to a live news section in under five minutes — free plugin, PRO add-on, and your first shortcode.
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Requirements

RequirementFreePRO
WordPress5.6+5.6+
PHP7.4+7.4+
Requires—DaazSync (free) installed & active

1. Install the free plugin

  1. From the WordPress directory: go to Plugins → Add New, search for DaazSync, click Install Now, then Activate.
  2. Manual install: download the ZIP from the plugin page, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, upload it, then Activate.

2. Add PRO (optional)

Order matters: DaazSync (free) must be installed and active antes de you activate DaazSync PRO. PRO is an extension, not a replacement — both plugins stay active side by side.
  1. Upload the daazsync-pro folder to /wp-content/plugins/ (or install the ZIP the same way as the free version).
  2. Activate DaazSync PRO from the Plugins screen.
  3. Open DaazSync → Settings — new PRO tabs appear automatically inside the same settings screen. No separate admin menu to hunt for.

Don’t have a PRO license yet? See pricing & plans.

3. Add your first feed

  1. Go to DaazSync → Feeds and click Add Feed.
  2. Paste any RSS or Atom feed URL.
  3. Give it a category label (e.g. “Tech”, “CNBC”) — this is what shortcode filtering matches against later.
  4. Set a cache duration (how long articles are cached before the feed is fetched again). The default works fine to start.

4. Display it with a shortcode

Paste this into any page, post, or widget:

[newssync layout="grid" limit="6"]

That’s it — your live news section is on the page. Works in Gutenberg (Shortcode block), Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, the Classic Editor, or directly in a PHP template.

For every available layout and attribute, see the full Shortcode Reference.

5. Turn on auto-import (optional)

By default, shortcodes read feeds live. If you also want new articles saved as real, searchable WordPress posts:

  1. Go to DaazSync → Settings → Auto-Import.
  2. Enable the scheduler and choose an interval.
  3. Use [newssync source="posts" limit="8" layout="grid"] to display imported posts instead of the live feed.

Troubleshooting: feed shows no articles

  1. Open the feed URL directly in a browser — confirm it returns valid XML.
  2. In DaazSync → Feeds, click the feed’s Refresh button.
  3. Clear the plugin cache under DaazSync → Settings → Cache.
  4. If the feed uses non-standard encoding or blocks default requests, enable Force Feed in that feed’s settings.
Run now (schedule) vs. Run now (direct): “Run now (schedule)” queues the import via WP-Cron — it runs on the next cron tick. “Run now (direct)” executes one import batch immediately in your browser session — useful when WP-Cron is disabled on your server, or to test a feed instantly.
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