I started playing with widgets a little more seriously since I found a fix for my XAMPP installation. On a lark I decided to try and use the builtin RSS widget. I didn’t get the results I expected. The feed I was planning on using is a single item RSS feed that does not have a link in the item element. It does have a guid with the correct http link. The content is in a content:encoded element. So the stuff is in the wrong place for this widget. The RSS widget wants a link element and the content in the description element. What I wanted was a display of the first item with a title linking back to the original website and its content with only the < a > and < br \/ > html tags allowed through.<\/p>\n
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