Sideblog Plugin v3.0
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
I installed the plugin, selected the category I want to be an aside, put the code in the sidebar, but all I get is “aside category not selected”. What did I do wrong? When I tried to post something to that category, the post did not appear in the main blog, but it also did not appear in the sidebar.
i want to make like this on my sidebar:
” Oct 21 News update. ”
then i used this code on sidebar option:
%M% %d% %content%but i got like this:
” Oct 21
News update. ”
how to fix this?
I’m having a little problem with version 3.8
I save my post in two categories, one selected as an aside and one for the post to appear on main page. This use to work well in older version of the plugin but now, the posts only appear on the sidebar (where I have my sideblog configured).
I’ll be gratefull if someone can help me with this…
I’m sorry to bother but I have no idea on programming, I just play with code. I also apologize for my english, I’m argentinian an totally out of practice.
I¡m sorry, it was version 4.4 the one I’m having trouble with
Ok it look that this plugin will work for me
hi all, II just install the plugin an think it’s great.
I’ve got a question though. we have multiple author’s posting in the blog and I wanna have the author’s name in asides as well. but it doesn’t seem like it is one of the options in display format. any ideas?
Hello Kates,
I am after the same thing as Kerem. I would like to have the authors name show up in the sideblog. It would be great to be able to call all the information that is stored for the author too, but I’d be happy with just the author name.
Simply amazing!
“Installing Sideblog was never easy.”
I am also wondering how you change the date?
I Tried to install your Plugin, but I had the problem, that all my posts displayed in the wrong order (from old to new) in the main-blog.
how can I change that?
@wolfgang:
You can change it by selecting “descending” in the order column in Sideblog options page.
Hi. I installed your plug-in and it worked but the title of my test aside showed up in my recent comments widget. Is there any way to exclude asides? I’ve disabled it for now.
Also, I have 2 widgets, the one mentioned in the readme (that’s the one I used) and another called something like recent sb, which has no icon to edit it.
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
I am very new to blogging. How do I know if my wordpress blog template supports sidebar widgets?
I see that images can be added to sidebar too. That is what I am looking for. Do I also need a plug in for adding images to make this work with the sideblog?
Here is the blog I am working on: macbrownracing/blog
Where will the sideblog comments appear. From reading I think I can choose correct?
Thank you very much!
Hi, I installed your plugin, and it worked very well.
I have written the right category in the sidebar, but if there is no post in this category, then the last ‘page’ is shown. Can you eventually tell me, what I did wrong.
I installed the plugin without the sidebar-widget. Best wishes
Harald
I installed the plugin, and it works great! Only thing is; how do I prevent the posts in the sideblog category from showing in the monthly archive view?
Is there anyway to “fix” this?
Sideblog is a fantastic idea that I think deserves a seriously more amount of merit. Personally, I think you’ve done a great job of it, and I’m glad you came back to it and decided to implement it and do more with it. It really works very well, and I am really considering redesigning my blog so that I can put sideblog in. It would seriously put me one above my friends, that’s for sure. So, well done on this project, I think you’ve done a seriously excellent job.
Is this acceptable even in three-column themed WP blogs? I didn’t want to experiment because I was instructed to install this to our company blog. And it might cost me my job if I did it all wrong.
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?
http://www.spp-music.de/wordblog
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.
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!
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.
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
Not working on my WordPress 2.6 blog, plugin does not show in plugins list in admin, so impossible to activate it
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.
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.
I’d like to run two separate sideblogs.
My site is someblindalleys.com, and I’ve got a side blog running already. I’d like to get a second running. How is this done? is it possible?