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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

  1. Download Sideblog Plugin v3 - http://katesgasis.com/download-page/.
  2. Unzip and upload sideblog.php to your wp-content/plugins directory.
  3. Login to your Wordpress blog.
  4. Activate in your Admin -> Plugins panel.
  5. Go to Admin -> Options -> Sideblog panel.
  6. Select the category(ies) you want to publish in the sidebar.
  7. Take note of the “category slug(s)”. Update your Sideblog Options.
  8. Open your sidebar.php in a text editor.
  9. Add the sideblog function.
    Example:
    <ul>
    <?php sideblog(’your_aside_category_slug’); ?>
    </ul>
  10. Repeat #9 for each category you marked as aside in sideblog options panel.

Installing Sideblog in themes that support Sidebar Widgets

  1. Download Sideblog Plugin v3 - http://katesgasis.com/download-page/.
  2. Unzip and upload sideblog.php to your wp-content/plugins directory.
  3. Login to your Wordpress blog.
  4. Activate in your Admin -> Plugins panel.
  5. Go to Admin -> Options -> Sideblog panel.
  6. Select the category(ies) you want to publish in the sidebar.
  7. Take not of the “category slug(s)”. Update your Sideblog Options.
  8. Go to Admin -> Presentation -> Sidebar Widgets.
  9. Drag and Drop Sideblog Widget Control to the desired location.
  10. Edit options by clicking on the Configure icon.
  11. Put in the title of your aside and select the category in the dropdown box.
  12. Save Changes.

Changing the layout of your Sideblog

  1. Go to Admin -> Options -> Sideblog.
  2. Look below the Display Format column.
  3. 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>

  4. Each aside category can have different layout.
  5. Update Sideblog Options.

To exclude an aside category from feeds

  1. Go to Admin -> Options -> Sideblog
  2. Check Exclude from Feeds for each aside categories you don’t want plublished.
  3. Update Sideblog Options

Download Sideblog Plugin v3.0 here

By Kates Gasis on May 2, 2006 | Filed Under General, Programming 

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  1. 351
    Benny Says:
    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?

    http://www.spp-music.de/wordblog

  2. 352
    George Donnelly Says:
    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.

  3. 353
    Kathy Says:
    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!

  4. 354
    gt.grf » Blog Archive » Sideblog Plugin설치 Says:
    August 5th, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    [...] Wordpress Sideblog Plugin [...]

  5. 355
    asfo_del Says:
    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.

  6. 356
    Matt Edminster Says:
    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=”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

  7. 357
    有用的WordPress插件 | 易巴巴 E-baba of Side Says:
    November 29th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    [...] Sideblog [...]

  8. 358
    Blog | Casasegafredo » Blog Archive » Tuoni e fulmini Says:
    December 1st, 2008 at 11:57 pm

    [...] also SideBlog which runs as a widget or via normal sidebar [...]

  9. 359
    Sideblog plus Twitter-Push | ceterum censeo ... Says:
    December 12th, 2008 at 11:07 pm

    [...] als Versuchballon, aber es scheint ganz gut zu funktionieren: Mit Hilfe des Sideblog-Plugins für Wordpress wird diese Randspalte mit Kurzmeldungen möglich (Details siehe: Das Blog im Blog). Und das Plugin [...]

  10. 360
    Sideblog plus Twitter-Feed | ceterum censeo ... Says:
    December 12th, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    [...] als Versuchballon, aber es scheint ganz gut zu funktionieren: Mit Hilfe des Sideblog-Plugins für Wordpress wird diese Randspalte mit Kurzmeldungen möglich (Details siehe: Das Blog im Blog). Und das Plugin [...]

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