Txanny

Thanks Mahalo!

I started this for a blog that I manage just because we needed some things I didn’t found to be easy for the users. So, as I need it for my own usage, I’m working on it all my available free time ??

Hope to give you more development versions very soon! And I wish the first beta release be here in April.

Shilo,

Many Thanks!

I will release this bugfix next days in 1.4.2

About the problem opening just to the more tag, this is the WordPress behavior. It doesn’t main if you have the plugin installed or not, it acts the same way. By WP design, this is the expected result.

Regards,
Txanny.

I think I’ve found it ! Please, can you download the development version to test it before releasing?

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/sideposts/download/

Thanks!

I saw that you say. I’m sorry, but you found a bug. Because the sidepost should work as you expected.

When clicking on any “Read More”, or “Keep Reading” in any post, ALL posts at the sidebar are shown fully expanded.

This is a problem with the more tag within WordPresss (not a bug in WordPress), that does not apply the filter to the posts when showing a simple post page.

I posted just now bug on my track to fix it ASAP. I hope in less than 2 or three days it will be fixed. Keep watching for a bugfix release this week. The bug can be followed here: https://alkivia.org/tracker/view.php?id=13

Thanks for reporting!

By the way, Liked the design at this “testing” site.

A new function has been added to 1.3

You can set the new function in your template, and configure the plugin by using Custom Fields.

Thanks shilojean!

About the line thikness is not defined in the wdget styles. It takes it from your theme styles. So, you have to define that considering how is your theme’ style.

There is nothing to change in the plugin CSS file to do that, because it’s not there. You need to add it to the file.

If the sample style provided with the widget works for you, then I suggest to add this at the very bottom of the CSS file:

#sidebar ul li.widget_sideposts ul li {
	border-bottom: 3px dotted #ff0000;
	}

This would draw a dotted line 3 pixels thick.

Another example:

#sidebar ul li.widget_sideposts ul li {
	border-bottom: 3px solid blue;
	}

This will change the color to blue, solid line and 3 pixels thick.

Rememeber to save a copy of the modified CSS file, to prevent loosing changes when updating the plugin ??

Hope this is what you were looking for. If it not works for you, provide me with the site url to check the styles and look for a best way to do it.

By design, WordPress does not show images nor thumbnails in excerpts. Excerpts are plain text only.

The only way to show images in sideposts is to publish full posts. After that, you have two ways: 1) Set WordPress to generate thumbnails at desired size, or 2) Upload the image at the size you want and post it in full size.

This have nothing to do with the widget. The widget just displays the post “AS IS”, I mean, the Widget displays the post as WordPress generates it, and the images are part of the post. The only difference posting on the sidebar, is that you have a really small space to display the post.

I will do my best to provide the plugin with a template function and a settings page. With this, I think the plugin could be used by all people that cannot (or don’t want) to use it as a widget.

I think the problem is with all this themes that not use the WordPress Sidebar, so, in this cases, I think a function and a template tag will be the best option.

I need some days to think about it, and to code this changes. But sure this enhancement will be included in next version. May be 1.5 or 2.0.

Hello!

I’ve checked exactly the with the same configuration as you. Found a small bug, but I think it’s not related to that.

With thew 1.1.4 version, and configured like below, it works for me:

Folder of uploaded files: ../files
URL for the download: download
Auto-add: Yes

Hope this works now.

BTW This plugin is going to be completely rewritten for the next 2.0 version to get a better integration with WP 2.7 and a more flexible way to manage the files.

I think the problem could be with the paths.
On settings page you should have something like that:

Folder of uploaded files: /files -> relative to ABSPATH.
URL : /download -> Note this does not include domain names, just folder names.

Perhaps the problem is that you have your WordPress installation files on a subfolder wile the blog is on a parent folder. I’ve not tested in this case and will do it to check if this is the mistake.

I will follow this to find were it fails and to solve it.

Thanks for reporting this!

I’ve checked this in the current version and it works for me. Perhaps something in your site is a case I’ve not tested.

Please tell me if your WordPress is at your domain root, the folder where the files reside and the shortcut to download them. I mean the directory structure, not the exact names.

Perhaps could be some error with the counter. I will check this as checking at the source it looks to me that something is wrong with the counter.

DO you mean the images inside a post? This is not controlled by the plugin and the sizes are the same ones in the post.

The size for image thumbnails in a post is an option inside WordPress. So, if you are going to publish posts with images in the sidebar, setup a thumbnail size that fills in your sidebar.

Marcomail, Thanks.

I think it’s a nice idea. I was looking exactly that a way to show user profiles with some photo-galleries attached, and found nothing to do exactly this the way I needed. Really I’ve found some plugins to do parts of this things, but not all.

I evaluated also using NextGen Gallery wich I already use in my blog for my photo albums. This does not cover exactly what I wanted. I don’t discard using it, because it’s a really a good gallery system. Just need to evaluate this.

I just started developing this plugin, and will take some time to have it completed. I hope I will release some pre-versions as development takes stable milestones.

Happy if it is useful to you, and hope it helps with your project.

If you need some help, feel free to ask for. You have a contact form on my site ??

Jordi.

As this moment, only can be used as a sidebar widget.

I understand that you do not use widgets. So you need some template functions to use directly on your template sidebar. Is that?

If so, tell me, or give me a link to an example. I can provide some kind of template functions to get this with the next plugin version. (That will take me some days)

I think to make something like <?php get_sideposts($params); ?> to be used on a template.

But just need to know you and me are talking about the same thing.