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Figured what I wanted to above is not possible, so I came up with a work around. Since I’m not using the excerpt field, I can do

if (! $items["mydesc"]){$post['post_excerpt'] = $items["mylink"];}
else {$post['post_excerpt'] = $items["mydesc"];}

And then use that in my loop. Can link to both the defined, external permalinks or the original source post this way.

Was also thinking about adding in a function to look for links in the post content, since the individual post pages will not be accessible, but I figured the excerpt solution was simpler.

Is there a more appropriate way to go about doing this or would you say this workaround is suitable? I also tried using add/update meta data to pre set the custom field that is actually used for this info, so I can avoid making the if excerpt exists call in my loop, but it didn’t work out.

Alright, I set up up the custom feed and added the following codes courtesy of Yoast to include the image

xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss

<?php if(get_the_post_thumbnail()): ?>
<media:content url="<?php echo wp_get_attachment_url(get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID)); ?>" medium="image" />
<?php endif; ?>

I then added an external featured image link plugin which I modified to use catch that image to fill in the input field

NOW, my last issue is pulling the RSS description or content to use in my custom post type loop which is displaying the aggregated feed items turned posts.

Referencing $items[“mydesc”] has no result, so I’m sure I’m doing something wrong.

Basically, I have a meta field’s data (a single hyperlink per post) placed in the description channel of my RSS feed. I’d like to take that description/link and use it as a link within the loop.

emailed you the link
issue #1 solved, still left with #2

Figured out the error was from not previously not having specified the category. Its working perfectly now!

Which leaves my final issue, adding the onclick url function to the post_class div. Without the echo, I’d do:

<div class=”post_class” onclick=”location.href='<?php the_permalink() ?>’;”>

but the echo seems almost incompatible with the function, I’m guessing due to the conflicting apostrophes or quotes?

Awesome, thanks! After about an hour of fiddling around with it, I’ve achieved half of the functionality I’m after. Now, my only two issues are:

1. it displays posts from all categories (tried adding in a separate query to display category ’11’ but it turned up blank)
2. pagination breaks after a few pages (fiddling around with reading post count and my category post counts set via functions.php seems to have some effect, but it still breaks)

Any suggestions? I used the code pretty much as is, but changed the CSS, post data section, and posts per row/page. The general structure is still the same.

edit: Also, any way to implement this code via echo?
onclick=”location.href='<?php the_permalink() ?>’;”
Previously I had been using this easy solution (the others didn’t work) to make the entire div a link. However, the apostrophes around the php seem to be conflicting with the inherent echo’code’ markup.

I checked and mod_rewrite is not running, nor does yahoo support it
(list of supported functions: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/php/php-33.html)

also spoke with a rep, he said it sounds like a htaccess issue, which yahoo does not allow access to for security reasons

anyone have any suggestions for a workaround?
I was considering installing wordpress manually in the root, instead of one click install then moving it, but I’ll wait for a time when we’re expecting less traffc