Plugin: Miniblog

This script creates its own table to pull information from and add information to while that plugin just pulls information from the links table.

And if you were wondering why you would use this instead of using links, it’s because the links thing has a one line description box while Miniblog has a multi-line box, supports a WYSIWYG editor, and is run through the_content’s filters.

I’m sure there are more, but those are just off the top of my head.

cool. Thanks for the clarification.

OHH sweet ness! I’ve been looking everywhere for this! Nice thanks!

This is my problem. Even with the updated version. Its taking the last post on my blog and posting it up. If I post two posts in the mini blog, the last post will show up twice in the sidebar. Etc….. really strange. The very first plugin worked great, but after that, I started to get the error.

Im using the coding you placed on the readme file. The title appears fine, but the text function calls on the last entry on the front page of my blog.

[?php<br />
$asides = miniblog_return_entries(5, 0, 'aside', '_Date');<br />
foreach($asides as $aside) { ?>

<li>
<span><a>url); ?>"><?php _e($aside->title); ?></a></span><br />
<?php _e($aside->text); ?>
</li>
<?php } ?]

Can you tell me the name of the database it created? Im going to try to delete it via phpmyadmin, then reload the plugin/ Thanks!

nope. thought I was a genius. That didn’t work.

Plucky, I used Markku’s plugin for the past 3 days, and I’ve ported everything over to BauB’s plugin for a few reasons. The first being better integration with 1.5, the second and this was what kept me on the fence for a while, no rss feed, now that’s included as well, full customisable. The final point is that BauB seems happy to sort bugs out and features straight away.

I’m seriously impressed with the ethic here and I applaud you. I sent an e-mail to Markku asking something, never got a reply. Soo that’s why I’m running with miniblog.

The documentation is very nicely placed in the php, I love it.

On thing, I’m sure this is a simple thing, but I’d like to be able to have the name of the asides rss feed come up as a title I specify, rather than just the blog title, haven’t worked out how to go about this…

Khaled, I am glad made the switch to Miniblog. BauB is great on sort bugs out over the last two days. BauB has least made 4 updates to Miniblog.

I know, I was looking at it like a week ago for my site, and thought, well when eventually rss feed comes in that’ll be cool, I turn around and he’s updated it.

BauB, what’s the news on making a page where the links can reside in. Maybe it could be just a php tag that you can put into a static page? That would make the plugin complete I feel (at least for me, since it’s pretty damn close to perfect right now)

@7milesdown: that problem is very strange…I will work on it. I think it may be a problem with the way I apply filters or something. Can you send me an email (baub at nmyworld) with the template file where you use it? That may help. I’d like to get this problem fixed asap, but we’re on different time zones, so e-mail would be the best way to communicate.

@khaled: I’ll add that in the next version. Thanks for the suggestion!

@khaled: oops, missed your static page question. That might take some time, as I’d want to make it perfect by incorporating it into themes. It won’t be too hard I don’t think, but it will be time consuming. The RSS thing WILL be in next version, though.

Update: looks like my host is having trouble keeping it’s sql service up. This hampers the ability for new downloads and testing. Sorry in advance.

For those who need the new version: Miniblog 0.2.8

Can I get your email addy? You can email me via my alias email [email protected] Thanks.

E-mail sent to that address.

Ok, my host has fixed the problem and Miniblog 0.2.9 is ready for download.

All users should upgrade, as this patches a potential vulnerability in the way RSS information is passed.

Also, RSS titles and descriptions are customizable, now.

Shawn: your RSS was displaying as having errors in Firefox. I think this patch should fix the problem. Well, I hope it does, anyways ?? I know nothing about RSS syntax.