diff --git a/app/models/refinery/blog/post.rb b/app/models/refinery/blog/post.rb
index 883f4fc..1eae99a 100644
--- a/app/models/refinery/blog/post.rb
+++ b/app/models/refinery/blog/post.rb
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ module Refinery
 
       validates :title, :presence => true, :uniqueness => true
       validates :body,  :presence => true
+      
+      validates :source_url, :url => { :if => 'Refinery::Blog.config.validate_source_url',
+                                      :update => true,
+                                      :allow_nil => true,
+                                      :allow_blank => true,
+                                      :verify => [:resolve_redirects]}
 
       has_friendly_id :friendly_id_source, :use_slug => true,
                       :default_locale => (::Refinery::I18n.default_frontend_locale rescue :en),
@@ -48,6 +54,7 @@ module Refinery
 
       attr_accessible :title, :body, :custom_teaser, :tag_list, :draft, :published_at, :custom_url
       attr_accessible :browser_title, :meta_keywords, :meta_description, :user_id, :category_ids
+      attr_accessible :source_url, :source_url_title
 
       self.per_page = Refinery::Setting.find_or_set(:blog_posts_per_page, 10)
 
diff --git a/app/views/refinery/blog/admin/posts/_form.html.erb b/app/views/refinery/blog/admin/posts/_form.html.erb
index a33baeb..68b1d31 100644
--- a/app/views/refinery/blog/admin/posts/_form.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/refinery/blog/admin/posts/_form.html.erb
@@ -81,6 +81,22 @@
         <%= f.text_field :custom_url, :class => "widest" %>
       </div>
 
+      <div class='field'>
+        <span class='label_with_help'>
+          <%= f.label :source_url_title, t('.source_url_title') %>
+          <%= refinery_help_tag t('.source_url_title_help') %>
+        </span>
+        <%= f.text_field :source_url_title, :class => "widest" %>
+      </div>
+
+      <div class='field'>
+        <span class='label_with_help'>
+          <%= f.label :source_url, t('.source_url') %>
+          <%= refinery_help_tag t('.source_url_help') %>
+        </span>
+        <%= f.text_field :source_url, :class => "widest" %>
+      </div>
+
       <div class='field'>
         <span class='label_with_help'>
           <%= f.label :user_id, t('.author') %>
diff --git a/app/views/refinery/blog/posts/_post.html.erb b/app/views/refinery/blog/posts/_post.html.erb
index 020ba41..77e43ff 100644
--- a/app/views/refinery/blog/posts/_post.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/refinery/blog/posts/_post.html.erb
@@ -10,7 +10,13 @@
       <time datetime="<%=l @post.published_at.to_date, :format => :default %>" class='posted_at'>
         <%= t('created_at', :scope => 'refinery.blog.shared.posts', :when => l(@post.published_at.to_date, :format => :short)) %>
       </time>
-      <%= "#{t('by', :scope => 'refinery.blog.posts.show')} #{@post.author.username}" if @post.author.present? %>.
+      <%= content_tag(:div, "#{t('by', :scope => 'refinery.blog.posts.show')} #{@post.author.username}", :class => "blog_author") if @post.author.present? %>
+      <% if @post.source_url.present? %>
+        <div class='blog_source'>
+          <%= "#{t('source', :scope => 'refinery.blog.posts.show')}: " %>
+          <%= link_to (@post.source_url_title.blank? ? @post.source_url : @post.source_url_title), @post.source_url %>
+        </div>
+      <% end %>
       <% if (categories = @post.categories).any? %>
         <aside class='filed_in'>
           <%= t('filed_in', :scope => 'refinery.blog.posts.show') %>
diff --git a/config/initializers/url_validator.rb b/config/initializers/url_validator.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15635e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/initializers/url_validator.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+require 'net/http'
+
+class UrlValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator
+
+  def validate_each(record, attribute, value)
+    url = value
+    
+    # Regex code by 'Arsenic' from http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3654
+    if url =~ /^
+( (https?):\/\/ )?
+( [a-z\d]+([\-\.][a-z\d]+)*\.[a-z]{2,6} )
+(
+(:
+( \d{1,5} )
+)?
+( \/.* )?
+)?
+$/ix
+      url = "http#{'s' if $7 == '81'}://#{url}" unless $1
+    else
+      record.errors[attribute] << 'Not a valid URL'
+    end
+
+    if options[:verify]
+      begin
+        url_response = RedirectFollower.new(url).resolve
+        url = url_response.url if options[:verify] == [:resolve_redirects]
+      rescue RedirectFollower::TooManyRedirects
+        record.errors[attribute] << 'URL is redirecting too many times'
+      rescue
+        record.errors[attribute] << 'could not be resolved'
+      end
+    end
+
+    if options[:update]
+      value.replace url
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+# Code below written by John Nunemaker
+# See blog post at http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2009/03/04/following-redirects-with-nethttp/
+class RedirectFollower
+  class TooManyRedirects < StandardError; end
+
+  attr_accessor :url, :body, :redirect_limit, :response
+
+  def initialize(url, limit=5)
+    @url, @redirect_limit = url, limit
+    logger.level = Logger::INFO
+  end
+
+  def logger
+    @logger ||= Logger.new(STDOUT)
+  end
+
+  def resolve
+    raise TooManyRedirects if redirect_limit < 0
+
+    self.response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
+
+    logger.info "redirect limit: #{redirect_limit}"
+    logger.info "response code: #{response.code}"
+    logger.debug "response body: #{response.body}"
+
+    if response.kind_of?(Net::HTTPRedirection)
+      self.url = redirect_url
+      self.redirect_limit -= 1
+
+      logger.info "redirect found, headed to #{url}"
+      resolve
+    end
+
+    self.body = response.body
+    self
+  end
+
+  def redirect_url
+    if response['location'].nil?
+      response.body.match(/<a href=\"([^>]+)\">/i)[1]
+    else
+      response['location']
+    end
+  end
+end
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diff --git a/config/locales/en.yml b/config/locales/en.yml
index 64d4064..a3268c1 100644
--- a/config/locales/en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/en.yml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ en:
             published_at: Publish Date
             custom_url: Custom Url
             custom_url_help: Generate the url for the blog post from this text instead of the title.
+            source_url: Source Url
+            source_url_help: Stores the url for the source of the post material.
+            source_url_title: Source Url Title
+            source_url_title_help: Title for the source url for the post.
             author: Author
             author_help: Set which user this post will show as the author.
             copy_body: Copy Post Body to Teaser
@@ -136,7 +140,8 @@ en:
           name: Name
           email: Email
           message: Message
-          by: by
+          by: By
+          source: Source
         tagged:
           no_blog_articles_yet: There are no blog articles posted yet. Stay tuned.
           posts_tagged: Posts tagged
diff --git a/db/migrate/20120103055909_add_source_url_to_blog_posts.rb b/db/migrate/20120103055909_add_source_url_to_blog_posts.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd6fd27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20120103055909_add_source_url_to_blog_posts.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+class AddSourceUrlToBlogPosts < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def change
+    add_column Refinery::Blog::Post.table_name, :source_url, :string
+    add_column Refinery::Blog::Post.table_name, :source_url_title, :string
+    
+  end
+end
diff --git a/lib/refinery/blog.rb b/lib/refinery/blog.rb
index 38f5813..e5b717f 100644
--- a/lib/refinery/blog.rb
+++ b/lib/refinery/blog.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ module Refinery
 
   module Blog
     require 'refinery/blog/engine'
+    require 'refinery/blog/configuration'
 
     autoload :Version, 'refinery/blog/version'
     autoload :Tab, 'refinery/blog/tabs'
diff --git a/lib/refinery/blog/configuration.rb b/lib/refinery/blog/configuration.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa1264a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/refinery/blog/configuration.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+module Refinery
+  module Blog
+    include ActiveSupport::Configurable
+
+    config_accessor :validate_source_url
+
+    self.validate_source_url = false
+  end
+end
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diff --git a/spec/models/refinery/blog/post_spec.rb b/spec/models/refinery/blog/post_spec.rb
index 60a04ec..fb7e3b1 100644
--- a/spec/models/refinery/blog/post_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/refinery/blog/post_spec.rb
@@ -212,9 +212,40 @@ module Refinery
             subject.class.teasers_enabled?.should be_false
           end
         end
-
       end
-
+      
+      describe "source url" do
+        it "should allow a source url and title" do
+          p = FactoryGirl.create(:blog_post, :source_url => 'google.com', :source_url_title => 'author')
+          p.should be_valid
+          p.source_url.should include('google')
+          p.source_url_title.should include('author')
+        end
+      end
+      
+      describe ".validate_source_url?" do
+        context "with Refinery::Setting validate_source_url set to true" do
+          before do
+            Refinery::Setting.set(:validate_source_url, { :scoping => 'blog', :value => true })
+            Refinery::Blog.validate_source_url = true
+          end  
+          it "should have canonical url" do
+            p = FactoryGirl.create(:blog_post, :source_url => 'google.com', :source_url_title => 'google')
+            p.source_url.should include('www')
+          end
+        end
+        context "with Refinery::Setting validate_source_url set to false" do
+          before do
+            Refinery::Setting.set(:validate_source_url, { :scoping => 'blog', :value => false })
+            Refinery::Blog.validate_source_url = false
+          end
+          it "should have original url" do
+            p = FactoryGirl.create(:blog_post, :source_url => 'google.com', :source_url_title => 'google')
+            p.source_url.should_not include('www')
+          end
+        end
+      end
+      
     end
   end
 end
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