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
Download Sideblog Plugin v3.0 here
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April 11th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
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.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
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April 1st, 2008 at 6:54 pm
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.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:55 am
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?
March 15th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
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
March 12th, 2008 at 11:07 am
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!
March 4th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
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.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
@wolfgang:
You can change it by selecting “descending” in the order column in Sideblog options page.