side bar shortcode

Hi McNaden,

Our current post story display is controlled by the short-code [contextly_main_module].

You can try placing that in the sidebar, but that will override it showing at the end of the post.

We have plans to support the siderails in WP with other kinds of recommendations in the near future.

Thanks for checking us out.

Best,

Ryan Singel

I also want to be able to have related posts in my sidebar. I hope that you’ll add this feature soon. With nrelate shutting down, I need a new way to show related posts in my sidebar.

Thanks for letting us know. Hearing from publishers helps us figure out what to build out next.

Siderail modules are definitely coming. We want to make sure we do it well and give folks good options for this.

We definitely hear you on it. I’m going to mark this “feature request” as resolved.

Best,

RS

I want this too. Right now I have to use a different plug in for the sidebar, that looks different.

Do you have any ETA for this? It is what makes me think twice before deciding to pay for this or not (currenty free trial)

Siderails are coming soon. We expect these to be in production in about 4 weeks, possibly less.

Best,
Ben

+1

That brings up another point to consider:

Contextly is referring to WordPress Sidebars as “Siderails” and calling your in-post items as “Sidebars”

This seems to be a Contextly quirk. WordPress and WP developers know sidebars as a very specific thing.

I’d suggest the organization swaps these two terms going forward to avoid further confusion.

Hi Blair,

Thanks for the suggestion.

Contextly works with many CMSes, and it’s unfortunate that WordPress uses the term sidebar in the way it does, as that’s not it’s meaning in the publishing industry generally. A sidebar outside of WordPress refers to other contextual information that is included near or embedded in a story – like an infographic.

Since we work with many CMSes, we need to stick with Siderail and Sidebars. We are referring to our Sidebars more consistently as In-story Sidebars.

Sincerely,

RS

Well, I did not know that. Stupid WordPress ??
Thanks for the reply and the knowledge. ??