Tumblr feed giving warning

Oh dear – that doesn’t look good does it?!

At a guess, I suspect there is an issue with the Tumblr URL, but it certainly shouldn’t be spitting all those horrible error messages out. If you can let me know the URL you’ve set in the widget I can investigate further.

(I’ll also make sure that those sorts of errors get handled a lot better in the next release!)

Thanks for getting back to me so swiftly!

The URL that I’ve set in the widget is https://watershedplus.tumblr.com/

Let me know if there is any thing else I can provide you with and I’ll get back to you right away ??

That looks to be right.

Looking in more detail at that pageful of warnings, it looks like the widget isn’t able to request the data from Tumblr – instead of receiving the XML data, it’s getting back some HTML that includes the phrase “The URL you requested has been blocked” which suggests that your hosting is blocking the outgoing request.

This isn’t something I’ve come across (it seems an unusual restriction, but presumably they have their reasons) but I’d suggest contacting them and asking if they can modify their rules to allow a request to https://watershedplus.tumblr.com to get through.

It still shouldn’t be putting all those error messages in public view (they usually go to the error log, but again your hosting seems to do something a bit odd), and it should handle the failure more gracefully – but the underlying issue appears to be with that block from your hosting company.

Thanks very much for looking into this for me, much appreciated! I’ll get in touch with our host and hopefully we can resolve this.
Best wishes!