Title: General Customization Help
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# General Customization Help

 *  Resolved [powermaniac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/powermaniac/)
 * (@powermaniac)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/)
 * First off, I love the plugin. Great work that you’ve done here. I’m having a 
   few issues that may have settings, but I’m not able to figure out for whatever
   reason. My site is currently at [http://www.thewwnews.com/wordpress](http://www.thewwnews.com/wordpress).
   I have 3 widget rows on the homepage. I’m trying to change what gets pulled (
   the excerpt length, I suppose). It’s just a bit cluttered. I know this is CSS
   for some things, but I was wondering more about control over things like “CBS
   news” showing up 3 times in the excerpt and general things like that. Is there
   any documentation on which files output the HTML for that part? I’d like to add
   div names to parts so that I can modify them with CSS. Also, if you click a category
   at the top and open a link, the text is in a narrow column (this is created with
   Feed to Post).
 * I guess I was wondering if there’s finer controls over these and I’m just not
   seeing them, or possibly which files output the HTML so that I can modify the
   code to my needs.
 * Again, thanks again for the great work you’ve done here Allen.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/)
 * (@amweiss98)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688091)
 * Hi
    All the widget code is in the inc folder in the file that widget in the name.
   Everything you want to change is there
 *  Thread Starter [powermaniac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/powermaniac/)
 * (@powermaniac)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688108)
 * Thanks for the reply Allen. I’m working in rss_multi_importer_widget.php and 
   seem to be making progress. It seems that $items[“mydesc”] is built with tables.
   I’m trying to change it over to divs, but am having problems finding where the
   tables code is being placed into the description. I basically want to separate
   the image, title, and description, then echo them into their respective divs.
 *  Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/)
 * (@amweiss98)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688136)
 * If you’re saying the $items[“mydesc”] has tables, that variable comes directly
   from the description tag in the RSS feed..so if that tag has tables in it, then
   the only way to change it is via regex or something quite involved..but possible.
 *  [lenwbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenwbrown/)
 * (@lenwbrown)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688317)
 * 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:**
 * [http://www.lenwbrown.org ](http://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!
 *  Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/)
 * (@amweiss98)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688318)
 * Hello
    It sounds like what you’re looking for is just changing the order of the
   html in the widget and a bit of CSS change, which could be done easily (if you
   know a bit of coding). Tags, however, is a different matter since tags are handled
   by wordpress and not my plugin.
 *  [lenwbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenwbrown/)
 * (@lenwbrown)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688319)
 * 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…
 *  Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/)
 * (@amweiss98)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688320)
 * well, the credential you gave aren’t working so I can’t see what’s going on with
   the widget.
 *  [lenwbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenwbrown/)
 * (@lenwbrown)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688321)
 * <removed by poster – me> 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/)
 * (@amweiss98)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688322)
 * ok…here’s the problem…the rss feed you’re getting has the images in the feed 
   aligned to the right…that is why the images are on the right. changing the code
   in the widget is easy in terms of getting the title first, but you would need
   to override the image alignment, which takes a change in the code in my plugin,
   which I can’t do without messing up everybody else’s installation.
 * If you want to put the title first, find this line in the widget php file
 *     ```
       echo '<a '.$openWindow.' href="'.$items["mylink"].'">'.$items["mytitle"].'</a><br />';
       ```
   
 * and move it above the line that says echo showexcerpt.
 * Still the image will float right because of what I said before.
 *  [lenwbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenwbrown/)
 * (@lenwbrown)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688323)
 * Thank you so much for your time and what you said makes perfect sense since the
   rss feed, now that I look at it, is formatted as you say.
 * I made the change you show on my local XAMPP server and see the difference already.
 * I’ll look into a few other things, but you’ve certainly got me to both understand
   a bit more about your plugin, and to recognize the issue faced by how the data
   come in via the raw rss feed.
 * Thanks again!
 *  Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/)
 * (@amweiss98)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688324)
 * great..please do me a favor
    If the plugin is working for you, if you haven’t
   had a chance, take a second and rate the plugin by going to
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-multi-importer/)
 * It helps other people know whether they should try it or not.
 *  [lenwbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenwbrown/)
 * (@lenwbrown)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688325)
 * Absolutely!
 * Also, after the last few caffeine-driven hours, I’ve almost got the exact result
   I was wanting, but it is requiring a major rewrite to your plugin and as a result
   breaks it when I add a feed from another source, which is kinda senseless for
   me to do this for just one rss source.
 * So I think I’m going to just load them on a page instead where shortcodes make
   everything much easier and I can get the result I’m looking for and load my other
   feeds in the widget where they all look great without tweaking.
 * As for your plugin’s quality, it’s definitely a 5-star one and I’m going to head
   over and rate it right now.
 *  [alexfads](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexfads/)
 * (@alexfads)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688346)
 * Any way you could show me how to edit whatever it is i need to edit in order 
   to have my images and text aligned correctly? It seems that some titles push 
   over to the right, and i cant figure out why. Id like to have all images aligned
   left, and then the post excerpt listed to the right, without pushing everything
   over. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
 *  Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/)
 * (@amweiss98)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688347)
 * If you are using the shortcode use the parameter pinterest=”1″
 *  Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/)
 * (@amweiss98)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-customization-help/#post-3688348)
 * [wp_rss_multi_importer pinterest=”1″]

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