Title: source text is wrong Last modified: September 2, 2016 --- # source text is wrong * [rickmp3s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickmp3s/) * (@rickmp3s) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/source-text-is-wrong/) * author indicates that this flaw is not worth a fix, this seriously lowers my expectations that this plugin will be maintained correctly. * when giving attribution using “feed to post”, the text of the source link is wrong, it uses the category name of the post instead of the name or URL of the post. * for example if I’m assigning category vintage to the feed, the generated code is: * Source: [Vintage](http://unclegil.blogspot.com/2013/03/stone-cold-mama.html) * instead of: * Source: [http://unclegil.blogspot.com/2013/03/stone-cold-mama.html](http://unclegil.blogspot.com/2013/03/stone-cold-mama.html) * or * Source: [Stone Cold Mama](http://unclegil.blogspot.com/2013/03/stone-cold-mama.html) * where “Stone Cold Mama” is the title of the feed item. * If this gets fixed then I’ll updrade the rating to 5 Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/source-text-is-wrong/#post-7755033) * do you have this box checked? * [http://www.screencast.com/t/rWRUxlS5](http://www.screencast.com/t/rWRUxlS5) * Thread Starter [rickmp3s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickmp3s/) * (@rickmp3s) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/source-text-is-wrong/#post-7755037) * yes, I have “Show Feed or Author Name” check, also “Show Feed Source” * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/source-text-is-wrong/#post-7755038) * if you have show feed or author named checked then it will always look to see if that’s in the feed and will then show that (the author or feed name, if it is there) with each post. The source, if you say to add that, will also show the source, as noted in the name you gave to the feed (in the feed panel) * Thread Starter [rickmp3s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickmp3s/) * (@rickmp3s) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/source-text-is-wrong/#post-7755039) * Then how I get the plugin to display the name of the post or the URL of the post where, at the bottom of the post, it generates: * Source: [Vintage](http://rickshide.com/a_post.html) * it should be something like: * Source: [The Post Title](http://rickshide.com/a_post.html) or Source: [http://rickshide.com/a_post.html](http://rickshide.com/a_post.html) * “Vintage” is the category of the post and has nothing to do with the originating content. * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/source-text-is-wrong/#post-7755040) * go into import_posts.php and find these lines: * if ($addSource==1){ $thisContent .= ‘ ‘.$sourceLable.’: [‘.$items[“myGroup”].’](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/source-text-is-wrong/.$items["mylink"].?output_format=md)‘;} * change the word mygroup to mylink, if you want the link, or mytitle if you want the post title. You’ll need to save this and save a copy since this will be overwritten with the next update (and since nobody else has ever asked for this, I won’t be including this as an option in the near future). * Thread Starter [rickmp3s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickmp3s/) * (@rickmp3s) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/source-text-is-wrong/#post-7755041) * thanks, but I don’t understand why you don’t want to correct this, having the category as the name of the link back to the original post is clearly wrong, it should be the original post title or URL * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/source-text-is-wrong/#post-7755042) * because I have tons of other things I need to do and typically only add features when there is more than 1 person who wants it..and so far this requests comes from just 1 person. * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/source-text-is-wrong/#post-7755043) * This person was given a way to fix the problem, but decided to vent their frustrations instead. I would suggest reading the hundreds of positive reviews instead of this one. * Plugin Author [Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amweiss98/) * (@amweiss98) * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/source-text-is-wrong/#post-7755054) * I just added this feature in version 2.64. While the person who rated the plugin a 1 said that they way I had it before was “totally wrong”, having the name of feed source as the source of the feed item is simply giving respect where it deserves. What you are doing is letting people know what site you got the RSS feed from…thus giving credit where credit is due. * Having said this, some people want to put something else as the source (e.g., the title (which is redundant) or the link (which is typically very long and if too long will blow out your theme), but now you can do this if you want. 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