Matt’s Asides with the default WP 1.5 template

Is it okay if I link to you from my guide for the Classic Asides ?
Not using Kubrick I couldn’t get it to work, so it’d be cool if you don’t mind.

Sure, that’d be absolutely fine podz.

Ta !
https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/asides2/

If you want the text or link altering, just shout ??

Cool, thanks ??
Any chance of changing the R to lowercase? Just me being nitpicky ??

Picky is cool – done.

Is there a way to do this if you’re not using Classic or Kubrick? I’m going to be using Manji2… and I proved what both of your tutorials say,they only work with whatever theme they’re for…. Can anyone help me?

it *should* work with any template

I was able to get them to work with Mallow using the same method

you can see my altered index file here

I’ve got a new question for this.

I was trying to figure out exactly how many posts as “Asides” would show up on my blog, and then realized that each “Aside” counted as one post on my front page, i.e. if my blog is set to display the most recent 10 posts, and there are 2 asides, it will display the 2 asides and then 8 posts.

Is there a way to code it so only the most recent, say, 5 asides posted display, and the set number of posts (10 in this case) also display? Or is it too much work to go back through the posts and find the most 5 recent asides? Otherwise I have to go back and either delete the aside posts or move them to a different category when I want to add new ones.

Can we get asides working on the sidebar? How is this possible?

Does Matt’s Asides work for other 1.5 templates? I am using the Blue-Bye-You template, will it work there too? Which directions should I use, Kubrick or Classic?

Also, I was trying to find a preview of Rust’s Asides, is anyone able to point me to a blog that is using it?

Thanks!

Poons15

matts asides arent template specific, you just need to edit the files..

Im using them, or rather a variation in a style made from scratch

I think asides can be theme specific. You will have to look at the code for the theme you want to use and compare it to the classic and default themes – if it is based on default then you will need to use the default-specific instructions, otherwise just use the ‘normal’ ones.

How can you give the Asides a title, like “Short Snippets”

i know that in Rust Asides you can:

<?php ShowRustAsides(“<center><h2>Short Snippets</h2></center>”); ?>

is there a way to do that with the Kubrick code…would it be in this section:

<?php if (in_category(21) && !$single) { ?>
<ul class=”asides”>
<li id=”p<?php the_ID(); ?>”><?php echo wptexturize($post->post_content); echo ‘ ‘; comments_popup_link(‘(0)’, ‘(1)’, ‘(%)’)?> <?php edit_post_link(‘(e)’); ?>

<?php } else { ?>

Appreciate the help!

Hi, after messing around with implementing variations of the loop I bit the bullet and decided to use this little hack. However I’m experiencing the same problem as XianPalin, in that since the ‘asides’ posts are counted as proper entries they effect how the page is intended to be displayed.
I did have the page set to show the five most recent posts, and then had a little plugin to offer quick navigation to five posts that were just off the front page. Obviously, when posting several asides a day this gets messed up.
I then changed the page to display five days of posts, but then the recent posts plugin doesn’t exactly do what it’s supposed to – it merely skips five posts and then displays ones that are still on the front page.
Ok, so after all that – is there a workaround for this? I’m checking the codex as we speak, and can’t find anything that would help me, so any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks ??

I’m running into this problem as well – the ‘show at most’ function is counting both my sidebar asides as well as the main blog entries as one and the same – has anybody come up with a solution to tell the main posts to disregard the asides in it’s count and hard-code into the asides how many to display?

update: if you add this code (below) to your index.php page of your theme, prior to the start of the loop, it will (i think) keep the main loop from counting your asides posts in the count, so that the number of posts you set in the backend will be correct. that number still seems to affect the asides posts as well, so the next step would be to figure out code to ‘break’ the hold of the backend option “show at most” on the asides loop. that i’m not sure how to do.

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