Problems with using custom fields

Friends:

I’m having some problems getting the WP Pipes plugin to accomplish what I’m after. Here’s what I’m trying to do:

1. Pull in some articles from numerous sites and create posts with a status of draft.

2. Read the articles that are pulled in within the WordPress backend.

3. Select seven articles a week to feature on the home page of my site. Either discard the remaining articles or save them for future use. On the home page, I want to display the following for each chosen, featured article:

a. the article’s title (linked to the article’s url on the external site)
b. an attribution to the original site in the form of “from {name of original source}”
c. the date I have published the link to the original article (rather than the date the article was published on its own site)
d. the featured image from the original article (or an image I choose to replace it)

The full articles I pulled in from other sites would not be displayed on my website (only their titles – linked to their original url and with the name of their original source referenced). The contents of the articles would be in the WordPress backend but not displayed anywhere on the public site (I realize there will be urls where those articles could be reached, but I will not link to those urls anywhere – and I may delete the full contents of the original article once I have read it).

4. In a MailChimp weekly newsletter, I will want to display all four items referenced above plus a 50-word excerpt from the original article.

You can see how I’ve set up the pipe in this screenshot.

So far, I’m having these two problems getting the data (I may subsequently have issues displaying the data, but I want to make sure I get the correct data first):

A. Although I’ve specified that the output of “[so] link” should be the destination input for field_567e154c0be3f, the link is not populating that field in the data I see in posts created from the external feed.

B. I can’t figure out how to put the name of the original source (which, incidentally, matches the name of the pipe I created) into the “[di]field_567e15770be40” field and thus the name of the original source is not populating that field in the data I see in posts created from the external feed. In looking through this support form for information on how to use the Original Source processor, I noted that this screenshot shows a “Text” field which appears to be associated with the Original Source processor, but that field doesn’t seem to be available when I try to use the Original Source processor.

Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong and how I might be able to solve those two problems?

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer – it’s much appreciated!

Sincerely,

Frank Johnson

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pipes/