how to display post source?

  • Resolved nbi1

    (@nbi1)


    6 years, 3 months ago

    Maybe I’m overlooking something, but I was not able to find a parameter for displaying a post’s source (i.e. xyz.com). I’m aggregating multiple feeds and would like to use a format on my news page that shows both a title link and the name of the source (xyz.com: latest developments in…..). Eventually I would like to group news posts based on their source, but for now just an unordered listing would be ok provided the list items consist of title link and source. Thanks in advance.

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  • Plugin Author Bill Erickson

    (@billerickson)

    6 years, 3 months ago

    How are you getting the content from the feeds to posts on your site? Maybe you could create a category for each feed and assign the posts imported from that feed to that category. Then you could use the category_display parameter to list the source (category).

    [display-posts category_display=”true”]

    This would also let you easily list posts from a single source:

    [display-posts category=”xyz”]

    Thread Starter nbi1

    (@nbi1)

    6 years, 3 months ago

    I’m using WPematico for feed aggregation. You are correct, a unique category for each source is a good solution. Another possibility is creating a unique campaign for each source.

    The next 2 issues to grapple with are the publication dates of the articles in the posts (for which I can’t find a parameter) and setting an article image to be the featured image.

    I’ll probably need to create a custom template as well, but I found a straightforward recipe for doing that so that won’t be an impediment. Regarding the publication date maybe I missed something while looking at the parameter listing. It just seems like that would be a commonly used data item to be displayed.

    Many thanks.

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