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Widget links all pointing to my home page, not individual posts
My feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/worldpoli...) works perfectly, and it looks good when inserted in my widget (http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/wpr-v...). However, as you can see the links in the widget for each headline do not point to the right place. Instead of pointing to each individual video post, as they do in the feed, they point to the home page of my site. Is this a problem with Widgetbox or with the format of my feed? I've had a a similar problem with another widget I tried to build using a similar feed.
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Inappropriate?Hi there,
Your feed is returning 500 errors intermittently, but that's not the main issue. The issue is that your items do not have link elements. So there's no link directly to each item:
<item>
<title>Thailand's Southern Insurgency</title>
<author /></item>info@worldpoliticsreview.com (Mark Oltmanns)</author>
<pubdate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubdate>
<guid />http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/vi...</guid>
<category>Video</category>
<description>
<span class="description">Thailand's southern insurgency has become
more violent of late, but Thai officials say the escalation is in
response to the government's increasingly effective counterinsurgency
strategy. Mark Oltmanns reports for WPR.<br></span>
</description>
</item>
Edit: Although the browser can use the GUID tag, the blidget cannot rely on this element as a link (since it can be anything). You'll want to add a link element for compatibility.
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Inappropriate?Thanks Dave. I have asked my developers about this. I know the links are there somewhere because the feed works properly, including linking directly to each item, when not inside my widget. Are you saying the links are just not tagged properly? It appears they are tagged with the <guid /> tag. Should these be <link />?
Thanks,
Hampton
I’m undecided
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Inappropriate?Ignore my previous reply. I see your appended edit above answers my question.
Thanks,
Hampton
