{

$plugin = new Display_Medium_Posts();

$plugin->run();

{

ob_start();

$a = shortcode_atts(array('handle' => '-1', 'default_image' => '//i.imgur.com/p4juyuT.png', 'display' => 3, 'offset' => 0, 'total' => 10, 'list' => false, 'title_tag' => 'p', 'date_format' => 'M d, Y', 'readmore_text' => 'Read More', 'hide_subtitle' => false), $atts);

// No ID value

if (strcmp($a['handle'], '-1') == 0) {

return "";

}

$handle = $a['handle'];

$default_image = $a['default_image'];

$display = $a['display'];

$offset = $a['offset'];

$total = $a['total'];

$list = $a['list'] == 'false' ? false : $a['list'];

$title_tag = $a['title_tag'];

$date_format = $a['date_format'];

$readmore_text = $a['readmore_text'];

$hide_subtitle = $a['hide_subtitle'] == 'false' ? false : $a['hide_subtitle'];

$content = null;

$medium_url = "https://api.rss2json.com/v1/api.json?rss_url=https://medium.com/feed/" . $handle;

try {

$ch = curl_init();

if (false === $ch)

throw new Exception('failed to initialize');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $medium_url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 120);

$content = curl_exec($ch);

if (false === $content)

throw new Exception(curl_error($ch), curl_errno($ch));

// ...process $content now

} catch (Exception $e) {

trigger_error(

sprintf(

'Curl failed with error #%d: %s',

$e->getCode(),

$e->getMessage()

),

E_USER_ERROR

);

}

$json = json_decode($content);

$items = array();

$count = 0;

if (isset($json->items)) {

$posts = $json->items;

foreach ($posts as $post) {

$items[$count]['title'] = $post->title;

$items[$count]['url'] = $post->link;

$start = strpos($post->description, '<p>');

$end = strpos($post->description, '</p>', $start);

$paragraph = substr($post->description, $start, $end - $start + 4);

$items[$count]['subtitle'] = mb_strimwidth(html_entity_decode(strip_tags($paragraph)), 0, 140, "...");

if (!empty($post->thumbnail)) {

$image = $post->thumbnail;

} else {

$image = $default_image;

}

$items[$count]['image'] = $image;

$items[$count]['date'] = date($date_format, strtotime($post->pubDate));

$count++;

}

if ($offset) {

$items = array_slice($items, $offset);

}

if (count($items) > $total) {

$items = array_slice($items, 0, $total);

}

}

<div id="display-medium-owl-demo" class="display-medium-owl-carousel">

<?php foreach ($items as $item) { ?>

<div class="display-medium-item">

<a href="<?php echo $item['url']; ?>" target="_blank">

<?php

if ($list) {

echo '<img src="' . $item['image'] . '" class="display-medium-img">';

} else {

echo '<div data-src="' . $item['image'] . '" class="lazyOwl medium-image"></div>';

}

?>

<<?php echo $title_tag; ?> class="display-medium-title details-title"><?php echo $item['title']; ?></<?php echo $title_tag; ?>>

</a>

<?php

if ($hide_subtitle == false){

echo "<p class='display-medium-subtitle'>" . $item['subtitle'] . "</p>";

} else {

}

?>

</p>

<p class="display-medium-date-read">

<?php echo "<span class='display-medium-date'>" . $item['date'] . "</span>"; ?> /

<a href="<?php echo $item['url']; ?>" target="_blank" class="text-right display-medium-readmore"><?php echo $readmore_text?></a>

</p>

</div>

<?php } ?>

</div>

<?php

if (empty($items)) echo "<div class='display-medium-no-post'>No posts found!</div>";

?>

<script type="text/javascript">

function initializeOwl(count) {

jQuery(".display-medium-owl-carousel").owlCarousel({

items: count,

lazyLoad: true,

});

}

</script>

<?php

if (!$list) {

echo '<script>initializeOwl(' . $display . ');</script>';

}

?>

return ob_get_clean();