External RSS feeds not linking correctly

Also, another couple of things I noticed…

1. The link color seems to be coming from my own stylesheet and not from your plugin controls, so it maybe needs to be set it to !important.

2. It would be useful if external links could be set to open in a new window.

Otherwise, it’s very nice indeed – I really like what you’ve done!

Sorry to harass you here, but I noticed that the dates and excerpts aren’t showing when you select an external RSS feed either. They do exist though, because I’m using this Google feed…

https://www.google.co.uk/alerts/feeds/00719666150100621034/1430496623924569100

And they show in the news section I’ve got in the sidebar here too…

https://dunfermline.mobi

Hi,
1. The link color seems to be coming from my own stylesheet and not from your plugin controls, so it maybe needs to be set it to !important.
I’ll do an update next week .
2. It would be useful if external links could be set to open in a new window.
Via FTP go to wp-content/plugins/bknewsticker/ticker.php and change this:
<span class="tickerLink"><a href="<?php echo $item['link']; ?>"><?php echo $item['title']; ?></a><?php echo $item['description']; ?></span>
with this:

<span class="tickerLink"><a href="<?php echo $item['link']; ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $item['title']; ?></a><?php echo $item['description']; ?></span>

About linking to the page.

I think the problem is your link for feed.
Please try this:
https://time.com/feed/ or this
https://news.yahoo.com/rss/
or this
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rss

Thanks very much for your fast reply!

That’s all good and you were absolutely right about the linking problem. It’s working fine when i try other feeds, so the problem was with the Google News feed. I remember now that the GN feeds aren’t recognised by Feedburner either.

One thing – I don’t get the little icon showing next to the excerpt when using an external feed, but I notice that it does work when using the post feeds.

Thanks again – great service! I’ll leave you a nice review!

I will try to fix this in the next update.

That would be great if you could – many thanks! ??