The StatusPress “plugin” is based off of WordPress’s rss functions package.

If you look at the top of the “plugin” it requires Wordpress’s rss-functions.php, which requires Wordpress’s rss.php library. The rss-functions.php file has nothing in it besides the include, so you really only need the rss.php file.

Therefore, to get it to work: download Wordpress and copy the rss.php file (it should be located under the wp-includes folder) and copy it to the same directory as the statuspress.php.

Then inside of statuspress.php change the line:
require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss-functions.php’);
to:
require_once(‘rss.php’);

You may have to adjust the path in front of the rss.php however the files are relative to each other.

Then you should be able to use the plugin without having wordpress installed on your site.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

This post was very helpful. However, I’m having major problems changing the StatusPress code to apply to a regular website (that is without going through WordPress). Do you mind sharing code or a brief tutorial how to do this?

Thank you, and thanks again for a helpful post!