How to edit the template field for the image title

well, the template you are using is constructed to put the source before the excerpt – did you try using a different template (the default template, for example)?

If I understand, the “Clean Separated” template is constructed to show the Source (1) appended to the headline, (2) displayed (in bold) below the image, and also (3) inserted before the excerpt. And, in addition the Source line inserted before the excerpt repeats BOTH title AND source, but leaves that prefix without punctuation so it runs without spacing into the excerpt.

No this can’t be true … I still think it is my misunderstanding or unfamiliarity. I will retry other templates, but all were tried previously and this was the considered choice.

I truly do appreciate your time, Allen, and I spent a number of hours trying to find a solution before making this support request. Asking for help is a last resort! Thank you for any help you can offer.

ok..let’s try this, what exactly do you want the template to show (and then also provide me with the RSS feed, so I can test it out)…meaning do you want

Title
Excerpt
Date

or what?

The ideal goal is for the template to show:

1) the title as the headline (no source appended).
2) the image thumbnail alone (no source below or above)
3) The description as: via SourceName – “Excerpt text…”

Here is a screenprint image with the changes: https://thegreathorse.com/cr-sandbox/imgs/support/2014-06-21_supprtScrPrt_rss.jpg

The RSS Feed with the screenprinted item is: https://news.google.com/news/feeds?hl=en&gl=us&authuser=0&q=equine+welfare&um=1&ie=UTF-8&output=rss

The current feed is live here (center column under the subheading RSS Multi Importer): https://thegreathorse.com/cr-sandbox/

This is on a test site, I will be happy to send you login info for direct access … thank you again, Allen.

ok…here’s the problem…that RSS feed puts the title in 2 places (both with the image as well as the title), so it won’t be possible to get rid of that without doing special php coding..that’s quite different than just making a template, since that is idiosyncratic to that specific one feed.

Ok, thanks Allen. Horrible news, lol, but thanks for checking.

Of course the idiosyncratic feed is Google News. I know the plugin’s last update involved Google News, so I gather no other users have mentioned this issue … not doubting it, but I’m wondering why. Is there something else others are doing?

Can I style the image title? Is this special php coding expensive?

I still have the need to solve the other two issues I listed: (1) the Source being in the headline, and (3) The Title and Source repeated in the description without punctuation.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

ok…here’s the problem (again)…that feed is putting that extra title inside the anchor tag which is why you get the little title below the image and it is hyperlinked…my plugin looks first for hyperlinked images and so it pulls in the whole hyperlink (which includes that title).

I can give you a file that will override this tendency (to look first for hyperlinked images), and that might work..just let me know.

Thanks, and yes, I’d like to try it, Allen. Your plugin is the best RSS tool I’ve found for WordPress, and it’s important for our site to handle feeds from Google. Who knows why we’re the only ones reporting on this issue, but regardless of that, I’ll work with whatever files or directions you send to get it working, and I hope the solution might be of general value.

If this was a problem with any single feed, it could be done without … but since this is from Google News which is a backbone of most of our news feeds it needs to function. Ugh.

I’m also open to trying other ways, like running it through Yahoo Pipes or using an rss ‘mashup’ service like MailChimp’s to maybe standardize the Google feed. I’m only techie enough to get in trouble, though, your guidance would be appreciated.

* I hate to keep bringing this up, but the other two ‘Source’ field issues are also outstanding. Maybe solving one will let me sort out the others …

** If you’re still in need of beta testers I’d be happy to volunteer.

ok..you can try replacing this file with what’s on your server…no guarantee but this should work

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3132388/pluginfiles/onetime/excerpt_functions.php

as for the beta, I’m not really working on this too much but I’ll let you know if I start to work on it again.

The new file (excerpt_functions.php) took away the thumbnails completely for the Google News feeds.

No change on the other two issues:

> the Source field being in the headline
> Title and Source repeated in the description without punctuation.

yes, that’s the problem…..I can’t really provide one file that will do everything since some items don’t have the extra title and other’s do. This is not a problem typically because I haven’t see other google feeds that do this.

Okay, Allen, I appreciate your effort. BTW the Google feed was found using its little RSS icon, nothing out of the ordinary.

I understand you can’t stop to address a single-site issue. Thank you for your time!

Ok..well, as I said, if you look at the feed, which I’m showing here:

https://www.screencast.com/t/p8h3FRCE

you’ll see that the title is there, and then is duplicated in the content.

There is nothing my plugin can do about that as that is just the way that feed is constructed. Most feeds don’t do things that way – simply put – you put the title in the title tag and then the contents in the contents tags…this is something that feed isn’t doing.

Yes, the feed is a mess. Aren’t there standards to RSS … is google just ignoring them?

I have no idea…if the feed is a mess, then my plugin can’t handle it (it just reproduces the mess). Google just aggregates from these sources and doesn’t change the original source to make it adhere to any standards.