Rss Widget Help

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  sloopeh · Member · Sep 17, 2006 at 7:04 pm

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  Hi, I don’t know if this is the sort of thing you can help people with but here goes.

  I would like to use a sidebar text widget to display a running total the amount of money i have raised for a specific charity.

  The fundrasing page has an RSS feed so I was wondering if it is possible to somehow extract the amount from this and using some html show it in a text widget.

  the feed is here

  http://www.justgiving.com/rss/getfundraisingpage.asp?eventgivinggroupid=465283

  Any ideas? Thanks.

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  britishbullblog · Member · Sep 17, 2006 at 7:21 pm

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  Have you tried just dropping the RSS feed into an RSS widget and seeing how it displays?

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  sloopeh · Member · Sep 17, 2006 at 8:38 pm

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  I hadn’t tried it until you mentioned it. it kind of works but not quite.

  http://sloopeh.wordpress.com

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  drmike · Member · Sep 17, 2006 at 8:43 pm

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  Please make your title for the widget shorter.

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  britishbullblog · Member · Sep 17, 2006 at 9:15 pm

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  Hmmm…it doesn’t look great I have to admit. I’m not sure if it is down to the feed or the theme you’re using. Different themes display content in different ways.

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  sloopeh · Member · Sep 17, 2006 at 9:52 pm

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  aha – thanks drmike – i didn’t put a title and it was using the feed title by default.

  problem solved – thank you all.

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  britishbullblog · Member · Sep 17, 2006 at 9:55 pm

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  Looks good now, best of luck with raising the funds.

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  sloopeh · Member · Sep 17, 2006 at 9:58 pm

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  thanks britishbullblog :D it looks great im really pleased.

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 18, 2006 at 3:41 am

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  That DOES look good. Great workaround!