diff --git a/gpluspost/gpluspost.php b/gpluspost/gpluspost.php
index 22fccdefc..be710242e 100644
--- a/gpluspost/gpluspost.php
+++ b/gpluspost/gpluspost.php
@@ -154,13 +154,13 @@ function gpluspost_init() {
 	if (isset($a->argv[1])) {
 		$uid = (int)$a->argv[1];
 		if ($uid == 0) {
-			$contacts = q("SELECT `name`, `id` FROM contact WHERE `nick` = '%s' LIMIT 1", dbesc($a->argv[1]));
+			$contacts = q("SELECT `username`, `uid` FROM `user` WHERE `nickname` = '%s' LIMIT 1", dbesc($a->argv[1]));
 			if ($contacts) {
-				$uid = $contacts[0]["id"];
+				$uid = $contacts[0]["uid"];
 				$nick = $a->argv[1];
 			}
 		} else {
-			$contacts = q("SELECT `name` FROM contact WHERE ID=%d LIMIT 1", intval($uid));
+			$contacts = q("SELECT `username` FROM `user` WHERE `uid`=%d LIMIT 1", intval($uid));
 			$nick = $uid;
 		}
 	}
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ function gpluspost_init() {
 	echo '<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">'."\n";
 	echo "\t".'<title type="html"><![CDATA['.$a->config['sitename'].']]></title>'."\n";
 	if ($uid != 0) {
-		echo "\t".'<subtitle type="html"><![CDATA['.$contacts[0]["name"]."]]></subtitle>\n";
+		echo "\t".'<subtitle type="html"><![CDATA['.$contacts[0]["username"]."]]></subtitle>\n";
 		echo "\t".'<link rel="self" href="'.$a->get_baseurl().'/gpluspost/'.$nick.'"/>'."\n";
 	} else
 		echo "\t".'<link rel="self" href="'.$a->get_baseurl().'/gpluspost"/>'."\n";
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ function gpluspost_ShareAttributes($match) {
 
         //$text = "<br />".$headline."</strong><blockquote>".$match[2]."</blockquote>";
 	//$text = "\n\t".$match[2].":\t";
-	$text = $author.": ".$match[2];
+	$text = html_entity_decode("&#x2672; ", ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8').$author.": ".$match[2];
 
         return($text);
 }
@@ -283,9 +283,6 @@ function gpluspost_feeditem($pid, $uid) {
 		if ($msglink == "")
 			$msglink = $item["plink"];
 
-		if ($image != $msglink)
-			$html = trim(str_replace($msglink, "", $html));
-
 		// Fetching the title - or the first line
 		if ($item["title"] != "")
 			$title = $item["title"];
@@ -294,6 +291,11 @@ function gpluspost_feeditem($pid, $uid) {
 			$title = $lines[0];
 		}
 
+		if ($image != $msglink)
+			$html = trim(str_replace($msglink, "", $html));
+
+		$title = trim(str_replace($msglink, "", $title));
+
 		if ($uid == 0)
 			$title = $item["author-name"].": ".$title;