lilaeamedia

Similar, but on intelliwidget posts thusly:

<? the_intelliwidget_author_meta('field'); ?>

or:

<? $value = get_the_intelliwidget_author_meta('field'); ?>

where ‘field’ is the meta field requested.

Updated docs:

https://www.lilaeamedia.com/plugins/intelliwidget/#functions-author-meta

Really not much different than the example I posted before, only now it is built-in.

Hi Dwight,

We just pushed IW 1.4.0, which includes a new template tag function get_the_intelliwidget_author_meta(‘field’) to retrieve author info. It has not been integrated into any default templates yet. We’ll see if there is any demand for it.

Thanks, -jf

Hi wakibu,

We just pushed IW 1.4.0, which includes allowed_tags in the widget advanced options. This allows you to preserve formatting for specific attributes (similar to the way comments work).

It also automatically closes tags that are cut off my the length constraint.

Hope this helps,

Thanks, -jf

Hi janvbear, thanks for using IW!

Take a look at this thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/break-the-title-under-the-featured-image

The steps are:

1. Add a directory in your theme named “intelliwidget”.
2. Create a copy of “intelliwidget.css” (located in the “templates” directory of the plugin) and drop it into this directory.
3. Adjust the styles as necessary.
4. Review the documentation for more information:

Templates
Stylesheet

Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks, -jf

We deliberately omitted the author meta data to keep the queries as lightweight as possible. The author id can be retrieved, but for now you will have to modify the template to pull the author bio information yourself.

Inside the IntelliWidget template loop, you can do something like this:


global $post;
echo get_the_author_meta('display_name', $post->post_author);

Thanks for using IW!

Good idea. We’ll be pushing a new release this week, I’ll see what we can do.

Hi tlo,

I am assuming you mean you want to link the widget title, “About Us” to the “About Us” page, so that you have a link to that page where the widget appears, and “too repetitive” means you don’t want to repeat “About Us” in the list itself, correct?

IntelliWidget was designed to handle cases like this.

1. Remove the text from the Widget Title in the admin form so that NO title appears.
2. Add code in the “Custom Text/HTML” box with a link to “About Us” and style it as desired.
3. Select the “Above Posts” option.
4. Create the rest of the menu like you normally would.

If this is not what you mean, please reply back with more details.

Thanks for using IW!

-jf

The popular posts widget plugin tracks page views by logging requests to a custom database table that is installed by the script. Currently IntelliWidget only uses WordPress core tables and attempts to leave as small a footprint as possible on your website.

For now you will have to choose the posts you want displayed by either selecting them from the “Specific Posts” list or by using a category to filter the results.

We’ll look at this as well as other requested features for a future release.

Thanks,

jf

Currently the default stylesheet controls the appearance of the output. You can override the default behavior by creating a custom stylesheet (as well as custom templates) in your theme directory.

1. Add a directory in your theme named “intelliwidget”.
2. Create a copy of “intelliwidget.css” (located in the “templates” directory of the plugin) and drop it into this directory.
3. Adjust the styles as necessary.
4. Review the documentation for more information:
Templates
Stylesheet

We are developing enhancements to make this process easier but for now this is the process.

Hi Oli,

It looks like you are using the menu template. This is intended to be used for lists of links (menus). I recommend using the new “album” template for this purpose. It only displays the featured image and title.

Let me know if you have any more questions!

I hope this helped. I am closing this ticket for now. Let us know if you have any more questions.

For this I would just use the “excerpts” template that ships with the plugin. If you want to customize it, copy it to your theme “intelliwidget” folder and rename it something unique.

If you want the title below the image, move it inside the intelliwidget-image-container-[align] div container.

It is beginning to look like there is a demand for more configuration options than just “editing the templates.” Ideas for upcoming release?

Thanks, -jf

Hi Mia,

Let me know if you have any more questions. I am closing this ticket for now.

Thanks,

-jf

Mia, it looks like your theme is not applying the height:auto rule to images to make them resizable.

Add these styles to the album.php template:

.intelliwidget-album-container { text-align: center; clear:both; }
.intelliwidget-album-container img { max-width: 100%; height: auto }

Also, instead of hard-wiring styles to the template you can create your own stylesheet by copying the default from the intelliwidget templates folder into your new intelliwidget theme folder. This file automatically overrides the defaults.

Hi Mia, thanks for using IW!

1. Create a new folder in your theme directory named “intelliwidget”

2. Download this file unzip and upload it to the new folder:

albums.php

3. Select “albums” as the template option.

4. Enjoy!