Why do I get the same excerpt for all items in my RSS feed?

Question

I'm new to coding and know next to nothing. I've done a ton research on the web, and I foudn the following code to import an RSS feed and place it in my template. The problem is that while I get 10 different titles, 10 different dates, 10 different images, I get the same excerpt for each item. Can someone please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?

(I should mention that the code I found did nit include get_the_excerpt, I added that hoping to get the excerpt for each post, not the same one for all of them.)

Thanks.

<?php
            $feed = fetch_feed( 'http://example.com/feed/' );
            if (!is_wp_error( $feed ) ) : // Checks that the object is created correctly
            // Figure out how many total items there are, but limit it to 10.
            $maxitems = $feed->get_item_quantity(10);

            // Build an array of all the items, starting with element 0 (first element).
            $rss_items = $feed->get_items(0, $maxitems);
            endif;
            ?>

                <?php if ($maxitems == 0) echo '<li>No items.</li>';
                else
                // Loop through each feed item and display each item as a hyperlink.
                foreach ( $rss_items as $item ) : ?>

                    <div>
                        <?php

                        //Use regular expressions to find all images in the post
                        $output = preg_match_all('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $item->get_content(), $matches);

                        //Grab the first image to use as a thumbnail
                        $first_img = $matches [1][0];

                        //If an image exists, display it
                        if($first_img) {echo '<img src="'.$first_img.'" alt="'.$item->get_title().'" />';}
                        ?>

                        //Display the post title as a link inside an <h5> tag
                        <h5><a href='<?php echo esc_url( $item->get_permalink() ); ?>'
                    title='<?php echo 'Posted '.$item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a'); ?>'>
                    <?php echo esc_html( $item->get_title() ); ?></a></h5>

                        //Display the item's publishing date
                        <p><?php echo $item->get_date('n/d/Y'); ?></p>
                    </div>

                        //Display the post exerpt
                        <p><?php echo get_the_excerpt(); ?></p>




                <?php endforeach; ?>

Answer 1

After Lots of Research and Testing, I got the answer.

the_excerpt and other custom function are not working because there is no any content tag On feed xml format. You just need to add this code instead of the_excerpt

 <p><?php echo esc_html( $item->get_description() ); ?></p>

More you can Visit https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/get_description/

The Full code may you try.

<?php
        $feed = fetch_feed( 'http://example.com/rss/feed/goes/here' );
        if (!is_wp_error( $feed ) ) : // Checks that the object is created correctly
        // Figure out how many total items there are, but limit it to 10.
        $maxitems = $feed->get_item_quantity(10);

        // Build an array of all the items, starting with element 0 (first element).
        $rss_items = $feed->get_items(0, $maxitems);
        endif;
        ?>

            <?php if ($maxitems == 0) echo '<li>No items.</li>';
            else
            // Loop through each feed item and display each item as a hyperlink.
            foreach ( $rss_items as $item ) : ?>

                <div>
                    <?php

                    //Use regular expressions to find all images in the post
                    $output = preg_match_all('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $item->get_content(), $matches);

                    //Grab the first image to use as a thumbnail
                    $first_img = $matches [1][0];

                    //If an image exists, display it
                    if($first_img) {echo '<img src="'.$first_img.'" alt="'.$item->get_title().'" />';}
                    ?>


                    <h5><a href='<?php echo esc_url( $item->get_permalink() ); ?>'
                title='<?php echo 'Posted '.$item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a'); ?>'>
                <?php echo esc_html( $item->get_title() ); ?></a></h5>


                    <p><?php echo $item->get_date('n/d/Y'); ?></p>
                </div>


                    <p><?php echo esc_html( $item->get_description() ); ?></p>




            <?php endforeach; ?>

Answer 2

Since you're not using the default wordpress loop, you should write $item before the functions that you wanna use in your loop, Same as you did for the permalink and the title.

So your code will be like:

//Display the post exerpt
<p><?php $item->the_excerpt(); ?></p>