Recent Posts Widget Formatting

[ajackson+ 0]

Hi - brand new PageLines user, really enjoying working with WhiteHousePro. To change some of the formatting on the "Recent Posts" sidebar widget, what files and lines do I need to be looking for to edit? I would like to do the following two things: 1) Make the widget's text (title and posts) darker; 2) Have the post titles in the widget also include the date and author. Thanks!

[bryan-hadaway 3]

Please provide a link to your site and I'll create a solution for you. Thanks, Bryan

[ajackson+ 0]

Hi, Bryan. Here is the site I am working on: http://www.thejacksongroup.com/newsite The "Latest News & Posts" widget on the short sidebar is what I am referencing. Thanks.

[cmunns 16]

You could actually use the RSS widget instead, which does show title, date, excerpt, and author Just use your own RSS feed then we can style it from there accordingly.

[ajackson+ 0]

Adam: thanks for the idea. How might I find my own blog RSS feed? I thought I had it, but it gives me an RSS Error:XML error when I try to use it.

[bryan-hadaway 3]

It's always /feed/ and for comments /comments/feed/ So; http://www.website.com/feed/ OR http://www.website.com/blog/feed/ http://www.website.com/comments/feed/ OR http://www.website.com/blog/comments/feed/ Thanks, Bryan

[ajackson+ 0]

Hi, Bryan. I tried using the address format you gave me for the feed, and I got the error message "RSS Error: A feed could not be found at http://www.thejacksongroup.com/newsite/feed/". Any thoughts?

[cmunns 16]

Your RSS feed is this `http://www.thejacksongroup.com/newsite/?feed=rss2`

[ajackson+ 0]

Thanks - I tried using it, and am getting the following error in the widget window: RSS Error: XML error: Reserved XML Name at line 4, column 38

[cmunns 16]

Hmm. strange...try looking into this http://blog.alien109.com/2009/02/11/wordpress-xml-parsing-error/ possible white space in the config file?

[ajackson+ 0]

I looked at my config file and did not see any white space. My config file is exactly like the original WordPress file I downloaded upon installation (with just the edits made for my configuration). Any other ideas?

[bryan-hadaway 3]

You could try a more manual approach. Deactivate any RSS Plugins or Widgets that are possibly messing up your feeds... to get back to the default WordPress feed; http://www.thejacksongroup.com/newsite/feed/ And then use a method like the following: http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/04/26/import-and-display-rss-feeds-in-wordpress/ Thanks, Bryan

[ajackson+ 0]

If I try to visit my feed location (http://www.thejacksongroup.com/newsite/?feed=rss2'>http://www.thejacksongroup.com/newsite/?feed=rss2), I get the following message in Firefox: XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location: http://www.thejacksongroup.com/newsite/?feed=rss2'>http://www.thejacksongroup.com/newsite/?feed=rss2 Line Number 4, Column 1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> ^ Rather that worrying about how to have it show up in the sidebar, I am more concerned with how the feed is working overall. Is there a file I need to find and see if there is a typo somewhere, or I need to recreate from the original WordPress installation?

[cmunns 16]

The idea was to easily get your recent posts with author and date but this does seem like a serious problem to have accidentally come across. Try removing the ????>??? at the end of the page

[ajackson+ 0]

And which page am I to delete that from? Config or some other?

[cmunns 16]

sorry, I should have posted this before http://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/error/WPBlankLine.html has all the necessary checks

[ajackson+ 0]

Deleting the "?>" from the end of those pages did the trick - the RSS feed shows up properly now. Thanks!