After one month of intermitent coding, Sideblog Plugin v3.0 is out.
WHAT IS THIS SIDEBLOG THING?
Sideblog is a plugin for WordPress Blog Platform. It is one way of
implementing “Asides” – a series of “short” posts, 1-2 sentences in
length. Sideblog is now in version 3.
Sideblog v3 differs from previous version in that it is Sidebar
Widgets enabled. For those whose theme do not support Sidebar Widgets
Sideblog v3 can still be use. In Sideblog v3, multiple categories can
be published in the sidebar.
HOW DO I INSTALL IT?
Installing Sideblog was never easy. If you’re theme supports Sidebar
Widgets, it is even easier.
Installing Sideblog in themes WITHOUT Sidebar Widgets support
- Download Sideblog Plugin v3 – http://katesgasis.com/download-page/.
- Unzip and upload sideblog.php to your wp-content/plugins directory.
- Login to your WordPress blog.
- Activate in your Admin -> Plugins panel.
- Go to Admin -> Options -> Sideblog panel.
- Select the category(ies) you want to publish in the sidebar.
- Take note of the “category slug(s)”. Update your Sideblog Options.
- Open your sidebar.php in a text editor.
- Add the sideblog function.
Example:
<ul>
<?php sideblog(‘your_aside_category_slug’); ?>
</ul> - Repeat #9 for each category you marked as aside in sideblog options panel.
Installing Sideblog in themes that support Sidebar Widgets
- Download Sideblog Plugin v3 – http://katesgasis.com/download-page/.
- Unzip and upload sideblog.php to your wp-content/plugins directory.
- Login to your WordPress blog.
- Activate in your Admin -> Plugins panel.
- Go to Admin -> Options -> Sideblog panel.
- Select the category(ies) you want to publish in the sidebar.
- Take not of the “category slug(s)”. Update your Sideblog Options.
- Go to Admin -> Presentation -> Sidebar Widgets.
- Drag and Drop Sideblog Widget Control to the desired location.
- Edit options by clicking on the Configure icon.
- Put in the title of your aside and select the category in the dropdown box.
- Save Changes.
Changing the layout of your Sideblog
- Go to Admin -> Options -> Sideblog.
- Look below the Display Format column.
- Change the format. The default is <li>%content% – %permalink%</li>.
The available tags can be found after the table. Just scroll all the way down.
You can style your Sideblog. If you want to display the title of the post
as a URL and style your list, put this in your display format:<li class=”asidepost”>%title_url%<br/>%content% – %permalink%</li>
- Each aside category can have different layout.
- Update Sideblog Options.
To exclude an aside category from feeds
- Go to Admin -> Options -> Sideblog
- Check Exclude from Feeds for each aside categories you don’t want plublished.
- Update Sideblog Options
May 25th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Hi!
I installed the Sideblog Widget and it works fine!
But i have the problem that after every Sideblog Post, there is a “-#”
How do i get rid of it?
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June 14th, 2008 at 4:19 am
The # is the permalink. remove it under settings > sideblog.
I found that wp put around my asides, screwing up the formatting. I fixed it put tagging my aside with li and just leaving %content as the formatting.
July 28th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Fantastic plugin! (I agree that someday it would be nice to choose what categories show up in ‘recent posts’.) Thank you for all your hard work!
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August 16th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Great plugin.
The problem I’m having is the asides don’t show up in the monthly archive view. Is there a way to make them show up among the regular posts in the main body of the blog when someone looks at the archives? (Or to have the archives exclude them altogether so that a month that only has Asides posted doesn’t display as Page Not Found?)
Another problem, less important, is they do show up under Recent Posts and I would rather they didn’t.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Just thought I’d pass on a tip I’ve cobbled together from code supplied by the great Lorelle …
If you’d like your sideblog posts to have distinct styling based on their category, you can include Lorelle’s script in the code meant to adjust the post’s format. So instead of simply:
%title_url%%content% - %permalink%use Lorelle’s code to make it:
<li class=â€asidepost">%title_url%%content% - %permalink%Once you’ve done this, just include something like the following in your style.css:
."category name" {"your category styling"}You’ll need to include another snippet in your theme’s functions.php file. You can find this code along with Lorelle’s original article on her site.
You can see what this looks like on my site at http://www.edminsters.com
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Not working on my WordPress 2.6 blog, plugin does not show in plugins list in admin, so impossible to activate it
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hey all, i tried to install sideblog with the cssgallery theme but in the admin options of the plugin i have no category i can select. Anhy idea why ? My WP is 2.7.1.
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Love the plugin! I am using my side blog for news. Is there anyway I can have both a thumbnail and an excerpt? When I set the options at %content% the entire posts shows even if I put a “read more” marker in the post. Is there a way to have a thumbnail and an excerpt because entire posts are much too long for the sidebar.
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