lenwbrown

Yes, I’m like what they call a “script kiddie” – I can manage my way around enough, but sometimes need to be steered in the right direction.

If you took a look at my site I linked to, for example, the theme used is entirely my own from scratch. I think that is why the formatting of your plugin as a widget is bugging me so much. ??

I should be able to figure it out but haven’t…

I believe this thread may be the closest to the problem I’m having.

I too am very impressed with this plugin, but I’ve been using lots of four-letter words the last two days trying to figure out how to modify the look of the widget.

(I do not use Feed to Post, only a widget on every page of my site)

The feeds I’m using are for This Week in Tech and Windows Weekly. I have it set up and it runs terrific when clicked and plays the latest video podcast in the lightbox. So the widget is in place and functioning properly.

My issue: I’m trying to change the layout in the widget itself so that the information is in a columnlike, centered format with te “Podcast Title” first, then the podcast image right below that and then the posted date for that podcast right below the image. Just those three things for each podcast with only the image clickable for the lightbox (and the image is already clickable).

LINK TO MY SITE AS EXAMPLE:

https://www.lenwbrown.org
*** To keep Google Bots out until I “go live” on my birthday (May 19th) I have the site password protected. Use the following to access:

username: test
password: abcDEF123

Presently, all the information mentioned above is displaying in the widget, but all the text is on the left and the image is on the right so the text is all smashed up since my sidebar is somewhat narrow.

If I could just figure out where the heck to throw in a center tag and some br tags in rss_multi_importer_widget.php I think my issue would be resolved.

Once I get this figured out then I’ll be all set! Again, this plugin you’ve made is fantastic. I can tell a tremendous amount of work and love has gone into this!

Many thanks!

Ahhhh, I discovered that I was on the widget page when I initially activated your plugin (on a second tab in Chrome) and had not refreshed the widget page properly.

Ticking and unticking and saving both times made me realize my error in that regard. the logic text box was there either way.

So it was a matter of me not refreshing the Widget Admin contents at the proper time.

You are correct. ?? I was going to remove that part of my directions in my first post on this thread but now it appears the “edit” button is missing.

EDIT: it appears editing old posts is only permitted for a certain time. I’ve edited up to about an hour after posting here. Good to know as well that I need to be quick or else my words are written “in stone” as it were. ??

Oh? Without activating the filter at the bottom of the Widget Admin page, the filter text area is invisible on all my widgets. I had to activate it first by placing a checkmark and saving, which I read on the plugin readme file.

Thanks for this plugin too, by the way! I’d spent the past three days trying to figure out a solution to my particular issue until I came across your plugin. I can’t understand why so many people have given in only 1 star. It well deserves 5.

Thanks again!

Google led me right here, with the same question as Anneka. Thanks so much WPyogi! Well appreciated.

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Now, why had I not thought of that? The second option worked perfectly. I simply modified the url the image was given to the home url of my site.

Works perfectly!

Again, thanks!!!

You’re awesome. Works great and I just nabbed the update from your site.

BTW, a few days ago I saw your post about someone trying to hack into your admin panel on your own site. You might have a few more than 5 or 10 visitors then, and – of course – your greatest fans always try to hack you. I know from experience! They can be psycho like that. ??

Thanks for the update. And love the menu on your own site. It “pops” out, for sure.

You don’t happen to do any custom work, or consider it anyway? I have a site design I’ve used a couple years and would like to “wordpress-it” and have been semi-successful. If you’re open to considering it at least, I’ll gladly offer you a private link to the site as it stands and you could let me know if it’s doable. It’s not all that different overall in appearance from Asteroid, which is what drew me to this theme. ??

I have a temporary mockup of this issue. I am using only an image for the header, and as it stands with the theme left at default, there is no way for me to direct the visitor to “home” unless I add a link to the menu. Clicking the header image does nothing, leaving the visitor unable to access the root of my site unless I specifically give them a link elsewhere to do so.

Thanks again!

Works for me as well. Thanks for the tip!

Here is another option, and for me it works flawlessly on WordPress 2.9.2:

(It displays the last 5 posts in a list as linked post titles)

<ul>
 <?php
 global $post;
 $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5');
 foreach($myposts as $post) :
   setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
    <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
 <?php endforeach; ?>
 </ul>

AH! That helps. Thanks much. I was trying to change some of the absolute values I saw and those seemed to effect some areas and not others. I appreciate the help. I got it looking the way I want now.