Title: Google Reader RSS and WordPress Widget
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Google Reader RSS and WordPress Widget

 *  [DaveZ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davezatz/)
 * (@davezatz)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-reader-rss-and-wordpress-widget/)
 * Hi All,
 * I’m trying to share interesting articles via the custom RSS feed of Google Reader.
   Within my own WordPress install, the default RSS sidebar widget is having a difficult
   time separating the article URL from the site URL – resulting in one long, unusable
   link. Anyone have any ideas on the Google side OR WordPress side in how I might
   get something usable? I did try using the Google Sharing widget without formatting,
   but there’s a nested list which my CSS is having a problem with too. Fun, fun!
   😉
 * Site is here and sidebar element is labeled “What We’re Reading” :
    [http://www.zatznotfunny.com](http://www.zatznotfunny.com)
 * Thanks!
    Dave

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 *  [gfa202](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gfa202/)
 * (@gfa202)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-reader-rss-and-wordpress-widget/#post-710517)
 * same problem in wp 2.3.3. i do not believe this has been resolved. something 
   to do with magpie and parsing atom feeds incorrectly.
 *  [blackmail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blackmail/)
 * (@blackmail)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-reader-rss-and-wordpress-widget/#post-710567)
 * Is a simple fix for this on the horizon? It’s stuff like this that makes me consider
   jumping to Tumblr.
 *  [jeffmilner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffmilner/)
 * (@jeffmilner)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-reader-rss-and-wordpress-widget/#post-710640)
 * I found the problem and here is a temporary work around.
 * In the file wp-includes\widgets.php, adding the following lines of code between
   1573 and 1574, sort of fixes it:
 * $stringpos = strpos($link,’http’, 1);
    $link = substr($link, 0, $stringpos);
 * It’s a band-aid solution, it breaks on links that have the text “http” inside
   them (besides the original http at the beginning of the link).
 * For example:
 * [http://somecrazyhttplink.com](http://somecrazyhttplink.com)
 * would come out as
 * [http://somecrazy](http://somecrazy)

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-reader-rss-and-wordpress-widget/#post-710640)
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