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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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
I’m sorry, I’m afraid I don’t understand either of your questions…
This plugin is absolutely great!
I’ve been looking for this exact plugin, and here it is. Thanks!
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!!
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?
Click the “see it in action here” link above.
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
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?
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.
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.
Alex,
Any reply on how you get your comments to load within the page? Thanks
See here.
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 🙂
Sure, that sort of thing is certainly possible as a customization.
Thanks a lot!!!
Thanks for putting this out, looking forward to your Links plugin.
Thanks for the great plugin! Does it work if we post the articles using Ecto?
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