How To Install MagpieRSS

An easy way to understand RSS is to think of an RSS reader as a custom newspaper; you choose who writes the articles in your newspaper. The RSS feed just inserts the "article" into your "newspaper".
This is a really handy way of keeping up to date with your favourite sites; you just add the URL of the RSS feed into your feed reader.

MagpieRSS basically uses your site as a feed reader. If an RSS feed is just a list of updates from a site, you can use your site to show updates from another site.

To install it, first you need to download MagpieRSS^{^}.
It'll probably download as a .tar.gz file which you probably won't be able to open. This doesn't matter; you won't need to open it anyway. As always, when you've downloaded it, scan it to make sure it's virus free.

Upload the .tar.gz file to your root directory. You might as well do this in your cPanel because you'll need to use it in a moment anyway.
Once uploaded, use the File Manager in your cPanel and view your root folder (usually called 'Document Root').

If you're using the fancy file manager, check the checkbox next to the MagpieRSS .tar.gz file. If you're using the basic HTML file manager, click on the name of the file.
Click the "Extract" button.