This means that you can display RSS feed of your authors on author archive page or posts that they've written..
The former controls the widget's champion the later controls the number of number displayed from the feed..
Field Name. application is needed because there is no built-in way to add author's feed URL to WordPress.
Author RSS Feed needs to know how you found this data to the directory.
There are number of categories to add additional fields to the user edit screen I recommend Advanced Custom Fields.
Once you've added field to User Form make sure to use the generated.
If author's feed can not be locate or the widget is displayed on any other page than the author archive or single post page this URL will be used.
This is useful you either want to show RSS feed or nothing at all..
Show Feed On. setting controls when RSS field overwrites RSS field.
This allows you to show the author's feed on his author archive but not single post pages..
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