Widget Expanding

Hi zonemom,
Please post the feed urls you are using and a link to the page on your site that exhibits the problem. It would also be helpful if you posted the config settings from the support tab in the SP Admin.

Best regards,
SP Developer

Thanks for the reply. The site is not up, but I have linked to screenshots of the page.
Image of feed items lengthening the widget
Image of feed items pushed to bottom of the site

Settings:

enable = true
enableFeedCache = true
enableOutputCache = true
customCacheDirectory =
useDownloadClient = true
displayImages = false
allowMarkupInDescription = false
stripCDataTags = false
showContentOnlyInLinkTitle = false
showSyndicatePressLinkback = false
showProcessingMetrics = false
showFeedChannelTitle = false
useCustomFeednameAsChannelTitle = false
showArticlePublishTimestamp = true
limitFeedItemsToDisplay = 2
hideArticlesAfterArticleNumber = 6
limitFeedDescriptionCharsToDisplay = 200
maxHeadlineLength = 75
feedUrlList = WSJ RISK AND COMPLIANCE | https://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/feed/
https://www.mainjustice.com/feed/
THE TELEGRAPH | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/rss
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE | https://blogs.justice.gov/main/feed
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE | https://www.justice.gov/rss/rss.opa.hp.xml
REUTERS | https://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/governmentfilingsNews
REUTERS | https://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/financialsNews
FOX BUSINESS | https://feeds.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness/markets
FINANCIAL TIMES | https://www.ft.com/rss/companies/financials
inclusiveKeywordFilter = FCPA, FCPA Probe, OFAC, Bank Secrecy, Bank Secrecy Act, OCC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, FTC, SEC Probe, Bribery Probe, USDOJ, US Department of Justice, Financial Reform, US Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering
exclusiveKeywordFilter =
timestampFormat = n-d-Y
cacheTimeoutSeconds = 3600
feedTitleHTMLCodePre =
feedTitleHTMLCodePost =
articleTimestampHTMLCodePre = <i>
articleTimestampHTMLCodePost = </i>
articleAuthorHTMLCodePre = <i>
articleAuthorHTMLCodePost = </i>
articleCopyrightHTMLCodePre = <i>
articleCopyrightHTMLCodePost = </i>
articlePriceHTMLCodePre = <i>
articlePriceHTMLCodePost = </i>
articleImageHTMLCodePre = <div>
articleImageHTMLCodePost = </div>
articleTitleHTMLCodePre = <h3>
articleTitleHTMLCodePost = </h3>
articleBodyHTMLCodePre = <div>
articleBodyHTMLCodePost = </div>
feedSeparationHTMLCode =
addNoFollowTag = true
feedNotAvailableHTMLCode =

Hi zonemom,
with regard to the 2 issues you indicated:

1. Widget area expanding: This would be expected behavior, as the widget container would naturally grow when more content is added to it. This is the default behavior of any block level html element. To change this, you might consider placing the SP shortcode in your widget into a div with a maximum height inside the text widget.

You might look at using a div something like this in your text widget:
<div style=”max-height:209px;overflow:auto;”>[sp# feedList=…]</div>
You might have to play with it a bit, but something like that just might do the trick.

2. Articles showing at the bottom of the page: Without being able to inspect your site’s rendered page we cannot dig into the issue further. If you would like further personalized help on this you may send us an email at the support email address found on the Support tab of the SP Admin panel.

Best regards,
SP Developer

Resolving this topic based on the last info from the plugin dev and no response from the topic originator.