danapalooza

@presta: Thanks. I downloaded the QuickPost plugin and it’s pretty great. It could not dovetail better with AsideShop and the templates I have set up in it.

If I decide to dig in to the PHP for the index page to place the date at the “top” of the day on my front page I will let you know what I find out. If you decide to dig in yourself if you would please let me know what you find, that would be great.

A little more stolen time:

I remember messing with the ability to add the date to the “top” of each day of posts a while ago. If I remember correctly I needed to edit one (or more?) of the WordPress PHP files. If I remember correctly I effectively “stripped out” the date function from being attached to each post to being “outside” of the posts.

@presta: Check the index.php file and see if you can find the date function.

I hope that this makes some sort of sense As you can tell I am no PHP master myself.

That’s all for now…

Here is a bit on how I have set up the template/category relationships and the template code for each:

photo posts template:

<div class="post">  %post_content% &nbsp; <span class="byline"><a href="%post_permalink%">perm.</a></span>
 </div>

link posts template:

<div class="post"> <div class="link-post">  %post_content_filtered%<span class="meta"><a href="%post_permalink%">permalink</a></span>
 </div> </div>

video posts template:

<div class="post"> <div class="video-post"> %post_content_filtered% <span class="meta"> <a href="%post_permalink%">permalink </a> </span>
 </div> </div>

quote posts template:

<div class="post"> <div class="quote-post">  %post_content_filtered%<span class="meta"><a href="%post_permalink%">permalink</a></span>
 </div> </div>

You can add as much CSS as you’d like to templates. The first DIV, called post, was already in the template I was using. I used it as the surrounding DIV in order for the template to format my aside post just like the regular posts in a general sense and then I added the unique features to each type of post using the second DIV.

More later (I’m at school right now)…

I’ve got a couple (a few?) questions:

1. Where do the tags that you use in SideShop come from (I think I remember seeing them somewhere before)?

2. Are there any more possible tags (i.e. for “tags” or “categories:, etc.)

3. Is it possible to create new tags myself – starting at line 46 in the asideshop.php file – and is that the only place within the file that I need to modify in creating a new tag?

Thanks!

Will do. Thanks.

Hmmm…that sounds like it might fit the bill.

In looking at the RSS Import page in my WordPress install’s admin section it says:

Pick an RSS file to upload and click Import.

I am unsure, though, what sort of file should I be looking for and where should I get it.

In Safari I navigated to my Chyrp site’s RSS feed from within the browser. Under File, though, the option to Save as… was greyed out, not available. In Firefox, after loading the RSS feed up through the browser, I was able to access the Save Page As… command and proceeded to save the RSS feed out as an XHTML file. Is this the file I am looking for?

The next question is this: When I migrated over to Chyrp I imported all of the posts from my old WordPress install into my Chyrp install so that my Chyrp install has all of the posts I made through Chyrp + all of the posts I made through my old WordPress install. If I download the RSS file for my Chyrp install is it an (relatively) easy thing to go in and, with a text editor, “cut” out the overlapping posts between the two so that I am not getting duplicate posts in my WordPress install or should I worry about that once any possibly duplicate posts are imported and manage that situation through the WordPress admin panel?

I hope that all made sense.

The two blogs in question:
Dan Markham
Past Work

So far, so good. There is some formatting weirdness (I think) on the AsideShop admin page after you go to edit a template. It’s merely cosmetic, though: the columns under “available tags” crash a little. Here’s a pic.

Other than that it has been smooth sailing. I’m just learning the ins-n-outs of what can go in a template and what can’t, how to format links, etc., etc. Thanks for making the plug-in. It really makes creating asides very smooth and easy.

I am sure I will have questions as I go. You’ll hear from me again =-0

Oh, sorry. Sure! I’m just havin’ fun playin’.

So far, so good. There is some formatting weirdness (I think) on the AsideShop admin page after you go to edit a template. It’s merely cosmetic, though: the columns under “available tags” crash a little. Here’s a pic.

Other than that it has been smooth sailing. I’m just learning the ins-n-outs of what can go in a template and what can’t, how to format links, etc., etc. Thanks for making the plug-in. It really makes creating asides very smooth and easy.

I am sure I will have questions as I go. You’ll hear from me again =-0

(I put this post in the AsideShop and WordPress 2.5 Compatibility forum as well. Seemed fitting)

Thank you.

It looks pretty flexible, actually. I am even able to add css selectors into the template that match the stylesheet I already have set up.

Thanks dd32. In Safari, works like a charm.

Hello There

Another question. I have never used templates in WordPress. Can one assign unique CSS attributes to each category of post using templates i.e. can I have unique styles for each post where, say, the title for video category posts are 16pt and red and the titles for, say, image category posts are green and 10pt (not that I would do that =-0 )?

Excellent. Thanks. Function over form is fine by me.

Understandable. This is a great addition to WordPress functionality and makes a proper tumblog possible. I will have to try it out and report back.

Thanks.

Hey there, Dan. This is your alter ego…”Dan” and I think I found your problem. You were leaving/putting a $ in front of the patch on line 399. It looked like this:
$intval($tag_id)

when it should look like this:
intval($tag_id)

Hope that works for ya

Does the patch go on both the exporting and importing blog?