Plugin: Miniblog

For various other reasons, I re-installed and the ???? and validation problems have gone. Looks like I caused the problem myself. Apologies if I wasted anyone’s time. Thanks again for an excellent plug-in.

I have had the previous version of Miniblog installed and used it to input “short takes” of other blogs of note or news articles.

I assumed after I added the 6th entry (plugin is set to display 5 entries) it would drop the oldest and add the latest entry for display.

That hasn’t happened.

I just installed your 0.5 version and the problem still exists.

This is the code entered in the sidebar to call up the miniblog:

<li><h2>Short Takes</h2><ul> <?php
$asides = miniblog_return_entries(5, 0, '', 'Title');
foreach($asides as $aside) { ?>
<li><?php _e($aside->title); ?><br /><?php _e($aside->text); ?></li>
<?php } ?></ul></li>

Any ideas why the list won’t update to the latest 5 entries?

Thanks in advance.

I have a problem – caused by my concurrent use of the TechnoTag plugin.
Miniblog takes some of my Technorati Tags and puts them below each miniblog entry on my blog.
Any idea what I could do to fix that?

I have a problem – caused by my concurrent use of the TechnoTag plugin.
Miniblog takes some of my Technorati Tags and puts them below each miniblog entry on my blog.
Any idea what I could do to fix that?

@marc: you’re entering the ‘sort’ field as ‘title’ when you should sort them by ‘_date’. Use this:
$asides = miniblog_return_entries(5, 0, '', '_date');

@marchal: while I can’t click those links (no link), your error can be solved by the new parameter I added in 0.5. What’s happening is the technotag plugin is probably inserting things using the_content’s filters. By default, miniblog passes the main content description through this filter. It can be turned off, though, so check the documentation.

For example:

miniblog_list_entries('<li><strong>', '</strong><br /><blockquote>', '</blockquote></li>', '', 10, 0, '_date', FALSE);

would probably fix the problem.

I just tried out the new release and it seems to have resolved the ‘ problem. But I do have a question – is there anyway to get the miniblog post and title to be on the same line. I know that linebreaks go in automatically unless something else is defined in the array – but it seems that p tags are automatically inserted around the post’s text, so it doesn’t matter what’s in the array the two never are on the same line.

Thanks BauB, that corrected the problem.

I don’t know if this has to do with the miniblog but say later on I want to edit a normal post, it looses all the formatting and paragraphs, etc… =(

@ceo: read the documentation for the filter parameter. Miniblog automatically sends the post’s contents through the_content’s filters, which adds <p> tags and stuff. In the next version, this won’t be a problem, as it will not be on by default.

@tek: that’s odd. I’m not sure what causes this…is it the normal posts as in normal WordPress postings or what?

BauB, is there anyway to change user level so user of level 7 can see and edit the Miniblog. Thanks

Yes, there is.

Scroll down to this line:

add_submenu_page('post.php', 'Miniblog', 'Miniblog', 9, basename(__FILE__), 'miniblog');

and change the 9 to a 7 or whatever level you need.

Yes. Normal WordPress postings. I just asked because before the last update, I couldn’t make some kinds of posts at all without getting some sort of SQL error.

Now I make a post and its all great. then I want to edit it and I lose all my paragraphs and line breaks. Its really odd!

What is the purpose of the URL field? Shouldn’t the link display in the miniblog post?

@tek: that’s odd. Do you lose the actual code (<p> </p>) or are the linebreaks just taken out?

@adb: the URL field is for anything you want it to be. But, by default, it’s used as a kind of link blog, linking the title. If you want to change it to show in the post, read the documentation.

I lose the actually <p> </p>

=(