As requested by many of you, I’ve packaged up my Articles page functionality as a WordPress plugin.
This plugin allows you to easily present a list of posts you select outside of your blog chronology. Very useful for featuring things that might otherwise slip into the nether regions of your archives. See it in action here.
I’m experimenting with a new way of implementing this without requiring a modification to your theme to add in a template tag (though the template tag is also included). Implementation details are in the README, feel free to comment here with your thoughts on if the “token” method is easier to implement than the “template tag” method.
Small plea: I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing a few donations - I’ve spent a lot of time during the last couple weeks working on WordPress plugin release development (making new versions of stuff that already works for me, so that it will be easy for you guys to use).
The download is available on my WordPress Plugins page.
If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and send me the link.
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Jonathan Dingman adds this Comment:
Alex, great plugin — I already loaded it up.
Quick question though: how does it work within categories? Does it cycle through all the categories and list those that have an article?
Is there any other way to streamline the article numbering system so you don’t have to remember what the last article number was?
Thanks Alex,
Jonathan
December 6th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
I’m sorry, I’m afraid I don’t understand either of your questions…
December 6th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
The Geek adds this Comment:
This plugin is absolutely great!
I’ve been looking for this exact plugin, and here it is. Thanks!
December 6th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Cliff adds this Comment:
ALex, is the comments funtion you have a part of the blog theme or is it a plugin? Meaning - I would love for my comments to open up on the page like yours does, but I am guessing it is a part of your blog theme and not a plugin. Oh, and your plugins are the best!!
December 7th, 2006 at 9:53 am
Jonathan Dingman adds this Comment:
Alex,
What I’m asking is: how do you organize the articles on the page? Are there all going to be under one list or how are they categorized?
December 7th, 2006 at 11:10 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Click the “see it in action here” link above.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Nick adds this Comment:
You are just too good to be true Alex. We ask, and you provide…
My deepest gratitude for all your contributions.
I will be implementing this in the weekend..
God Bless
December 7th, 2006 at 11:25 am
Jonathan Dingman adds this Comment:
Alex,
Yes, I did that already and I see it, but that’s why I’m asking. Does it automatically categorize everything like that or is there anything special I need to do for it?
Will they automaticall be categorized by the category that post is in? what if a post is in 2 categories?
December 7th, 2006 at 11:36 am
NeverHome adds this Comment:
Hi Alex,
Is it possible to exclude a category/categories? I use the default category for “All” articles, so I want to exclude this from the Article Feature page.
Great plugin, thanks for making it available.
December 7th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Hmm. You don’t want to actually exclude posts from that category, you just want to hide the display of that category in the list. Sounds like something that could be done as a customization.
December 7th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
cliff adds this Comment:
Alex,
Any reply on how you get your comments to load within the page? Thanks
December 8th, 2006 at 6:21 am
Alex adds this Comment:
See here.
December 8th, 2006 at 8:02 am
Laura adds this Comment:
Hi Alex,
I was wondering if there is anyway to automaticly have the Key (article) and Value (1) to be a default setting for all posts?
For example, if someone else makes a post besides me, the key and value will automaticly be set for the post to show up on the specified ‘Articles” page?
Or in other words, to have the Key and Value hardcoded somewhere so that it never has to be specified when publishing a post?
I think I can do something like this using ‘the_meta’, but I am unclear on what the tag would need to be, and of where I should put the tag (for example, on the index.php page or the single.php page).
I hope this makes sense because I am just learning about php!
Thanks in advance!
Laura
December 8th, 2006 at 9:32 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Sure, that sort of thing is certainly possible as a customization.
December 8th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Philip adds this Comment:
Thanks a lot!!!
December 8th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
Rirath adds this Comment:
Thanks for putting this out, looking forward to your Links plugin.
December 9th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Niranjan adds this Comment:
Thanks for the great plugin! Does it work if we post the articles using Ecto?
January 5th, 2007 at 7:25 am
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