Put links to original articles at the bottom of every feed entry

[aveleh]

Title:
Put links to original articles at the bottom of every feed entry

Area:
feeds, entries

Summary:
A link to the original source for a feed article would be convenient if located at the bottom of the article instead or as well as at the top.

Description:
Right now, any journal that imports a feed from an external source displays the original link, and then the article (or portion of the article provided by the feed). This means that I often read the article or article summary, and if I find it interesting, I have to scroll back up to find the link to the source so that I can read the comments provided there or the remainder of the article.

I think that having an additional link at the bottom would be more convenient. While for shorter articles or feeds that only provide a headline or summary having two links so close together might be confusing, the dual placement would allow convenient reading both for those people who like to follow the link right away or those who like to read the text before choosing to follow the link.

Poll #3746 Put links to original articles at the bottom of every feed entry

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 48

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Should be implemented as-is.
31 (64.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (14.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.1%)

(I have no opinion)
9 (18.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[pseudomonas]

Is there a way that their position could be controlled by style or CSS options?

[matgb]

Not fully at the moment. Currently the link itself is encased in a span with a specific class, but the rest of the entry isn't.

Personally I favour having it top and bottom anyway, possibly with the bottom link being coded or written as 'original article: [a href="$link"]$title[/a]'

And this suggestion saves me from suggesting exactly the same thing, as I'd been meaning to for a week or so.

[pseudomonas]

if it was at top and bottom with different classnames, custom CSS could hide one or the other or neither.

[cesy]

+1

[pseudomonas]

(disclaimer, I know nothing about the DW style system and very little about CSS so there are probably better ways to achieve this)

[aveleh]

I am fairly familiar with the DW style system as well as HTML and CSS, and that is definitely something can/should be edited so that it's easier to apply CSS. It's not possible right now though with the code as is, and is also likely best to have it in both places and let people hide one if they prefer (as opposed to using CSS to move its placement.)

[zvi]

+1

[rho]

I'd rather have the "link" link that currently links to the entry on DW change to link to the link provided by the feed. Then it will display wherever the user has an entry's metadata display in their file.

See also: http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471

[kyrielle]

+1 - this is ideal.

[msilverstar]

+1

[briarwood]

+1

[ninetydegrees]

I'd rather not actually. What if I really want to link to the journal entry? Because the original page has a horrible color scheme, because the journal entry has comments or for whatever reason.

[briarwood]

You'd still have that in most styles, because the title of the post links to the journal entry on DW. As I understand it, this would only affect the URL displayed within the body of the post, which comes from the RSS or Atom feed itself.

[ninetydegrees]

The subject link and entry permalink are different: one's with ?style=mine and all that and the other without; that's why there are two of them actually.