MiniPosts Plugin for WordPress
An approach to “asides”, or small posts, in WordPress. Allows you to mark entries as “mini” posts and handle them differently than normal posts. Requires WordPress 1.5 (currently in beta).
Features include:
- Template function to test for mini posts.
- Template function to list recent mini posts, with custom formatting of permalinks and comment counts.
- Option to hide mini posts from the main page.
- Option to suppress WordPress’s auto-paragraphing in the Loop.
- Option to exclude mini posts from feeds.
- GUI configuration page with bulk mini-post flagging.
Download
The plugin may be downloaded from the WordPress plugin repository.
Changelog
- 0.5.2 18 October 2005 (diff)
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- Fixed label id for “This is a mini post” checkbox
- Added pagination on Options page
- Changed all references to the plugin’s filename to
basename(__FILE__), to avoid file naming issues - Added aliases to
JOINandWHEREclauses to avoid collisions with other plugins (thanks, Jerome and Mark!)
- 0.5.1 19 January 2005 (diff)
- Added hook for ’save_post’.
- 0.5 10 January 2005 (diff)
- Added support for 0-, 1-, and n-comment formatting to get_mini_posts(). (WARNING: The argument sequence of get_mini_posts() has changed to accommodate this.)
- 0.4 10 January 2005 (diff)
- Updated to accommodate feeds; added option to filter mini posts from feeds.
- 0.3 10 January 2005 (diff)
- Updated to accommodate WP pages.
- 0.2 10 January 2005 (diff)
- Corrected load_plugin_textdomain() domain.
- 0.1 9 January 2005
- Initial release.
January 23rd, 2005 at 10:47 am
Thank`s for the great plug. (Can you please fix the help link.)
January 27th, 2005 at 9:44 pm
Awesome awesome awesome! Thanks a ton!
February 1st, 2005 at 3:03 am
Great work - thanks for the plugin.
February 18th, 2005 at 3:34 am
Great Plugin!
Where can I modify the number of miniposts shown?
February 18th, 2005 at 2:22 pm
Björn:
The arguments to get_mini_posts() are:
get_mini_posts(format, permalink_text, zero_comments, one_comment, more_comments, limit)
Notice the ‘limit’ on the end. That specifies how many to show.
More info available on MiniPosts Help.
February 19th, 2005 at 1:58 am
Thanks a lot Morgan! I didn’t see the line in the plugin’s file. Now I changed the limit. Thanks again for the great plugin!
April 12th, 2005 at 9:19 pm
Hey - thanks for the great plugin!
Quick bugfix - line 328 should start with <label for=”is_mini_post”> instead of for=”mini_post”, as clicking the label doesn’t make the checkbox tick/untick.
Thanks,
Rob
May 22nd, 2005 at 12:49 pm
Hi very nice plugin, i have a two questions:
1. In my admin section (options > miniposts) when i press “update mini posts”
i get this:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /raid/www/lucrat.net/www/root/wp-admin/menu-header.php:18) in /raid/www/lucrat.net/www/root/wp-content/plugins/mini-posts.php on line 62
What is the problem here?
2. Can i format if a post is mini to show this:
date of post
post name where the postname is link to the post
without a all post content and comments
Im ask because I try to use post mini for my news section, Im use WP 1.5 …
May 30th, 2005 at 4:12 pm
Nice Plugin!
what about version 0.6 ? i`m missing some auto br an p formatting.
thx
dandy
June 5th, 2005 at 9:51 pm
Fiddling Away
Fiddling Away: with the MiniPost plugin
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June 16th, 2005 at 1:03 am
Could you use this plugin to run a “link blog” section in your sidebar? Create mini-posts then display them outside of the normal blog section to create a another mini blog?
Just curious to how others are using this plugin.
August 10th, 2005 at 1:30 pm
Are you still working on this plugin? I get this error when I activate it:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/crowspea/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mini-posts.php:1) in /home/crowspea/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 10
I am running Wordpress 1.5.1.2
August 14th, 2005 at 11:14 pm
I’m following the instructions to download the plugin but Firefox displays it as a file instead of downloading. I saved the file as mini-posts.php and uploaded to my server but nothing appears in General Options. Is there anywhere else I can get the plugin from?
September 15th, 2005 at 3:22 pm
Hi,
Great plugin and one I’m looking forward to using. My problem now is the MiniPosts page won’t appear under Options. Error - no input file specified.
I save the file as a .php, uploaded it to my plugins/ directory then activated. Added the code to my sidebar, wrote a minipost and the post appeared.
The only problem is the page under Options.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Mya
September 27th, 2005 at 9:37 pm
Is neccesary to edit index.php or something?
I have the following error in Options / Minipost
No input file specified.
Help me please!
Thank you
September 30th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
I would like to make a feature request. Please make it so that you can have miniposts in their own separate archive so that they aren’t strewn amongs my normal posts in the main archives.
October 18th, 2005 at 8:22 pm
@ Rob & Toto — Thanks for the bug reports.
@ Toto — You can use WP’s built-in the_time() or the_date() functions when you have mini posts in-line with regular posts, inside the loop. But currently there’s no way to include the date when calling
get_mini_posts(). I’ll add that to my feature to-do list. Regarding the post title as link text, that’s another good idea; I’ve added it to my list.@ Dandy — If you mean you’re missing auto-p in in-line mini posts, there’s an option for that (Options → MiniPosts → Suppress auto-pagraphing on mini posts in the Loop). If you mean in
get_mini_posts(), you’re right, there is currently no auto-p in that function. Added to my list.@ Crow — Looks like you have whitespace before the
<?phpopener. Delete all whitespace before that.@ Sian — Did you activate the plugin under Plugins?
@ Mya and Oscar — I bet you named the file something other than
mini-posts.php. For now, change the filename to be exactly that, and I’ll update the plugin so that it looks for its own file name, rather thanmini-posts.php, just in case they’re not the same thing.@ James — Thanks for the request. I’ll add it to my list.
October 20th, 2005 at 6:06 pm
I just wanted to say thank you for this excellent plugin — it rocks!
After trying fruitlessly to adapt other “asides” plugins to my blog, I found this one, and it worked like a charm from the get-go. Your instructions are great.
So again, thank you.
October 29th, 2005 at 4:35 am
Excellent work, I tried to put asides and your plugin came right on time. But, i don’t know how to limit the number of miniposts. Can you help me? Thanks!!!
October 29th, 2005 at 4:49 am
Hello, made it, thanksanyway!!!
November 6th, 2005 at 1:29 pm
[…] Enter another great WordPress plugin called MiniPosts. All you do is upload the plugin, add the code to call in the information wherever you want it, create a post in your WP, flag it (by clicking a little box right below your entry) as a mini post and voila. Instant fun! You can even leave comments on the entries in my mini blog. So check it out, it’s in the sidebar right before my links, and have some fun why dontcha? Filed under: Site Stuff, Tech-y Stuff, WP Mods […]
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November 30th, 2005 at 8:24 pm
Hi there, first thanks a lot! A very usefull plugin!
If you`re looking for new features, i`d love a filter option for normal wp tags. for example to exclude miniposts from my list of recent posts. or is there a already a way to do this?
I want a mainpage with 10 entries, and below a list of the recent 20 entries with a offset off 10 entries. since these list would be outside of the loop it displays miniposts aswell. any idea ?
cheers
elwish
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December 8th, 2005 at 11:19 am
I’ve just installed mini-posts, great plugin thank you!
You might want to update the link to the Help page to
http://doocy.net/mini-posts/help/
You currently have it as
http://doocy.net/help/
and it gives a 404.
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January 3rd, 2006 at 4:02 pm
I can’t find the file to download on the Repository. Help?
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January 25th, 2006 at 11:22 am
Thanks for the great plugin, finally i can post admin messages beside the normal blog.
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March 6th, 2006 at 1:15 am
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March 16th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
Is it possible to have “Filter mini posts from the Loop” enabled, and be able to search inside miniposts?
WP only searches posts that are visible and all my minipost are ignored
I have tried using “search everything” plugin but it also doesn’t search inside miniposts
Anyone else has noticed this or its just me?
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March 19th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
how would I accomplish this??
I am using miniposts to post 1 word and have people comment on that one word. I want it to look like this:
Word
2 comments
how do I code that?
currently using this in my code
March 28th, 2006 at 6:51 am
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March 29th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
we use this plugin on our Wordpress 2.01 site….. everytime a minipost is edited the minipost checkbox is no longer checked….. so the minipost appears on the main page and not where we want it… So each time we edit a minipost we have to click on the minipost checkbox. It’s a hassle. Does anybody have a solution for this ?
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July 23rd, 2006 at 5:39 pm
Hi, i put mini posts on my sidebar. How do I disable comments?
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August 27th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
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November 15th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
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February 2nd, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Can anyone tell me how to get mi minipost titles to show in bold text above the body text of the mini post and without the bulleting? I’m too new at this to figure out the coding myself.
Thanks!
Jim
February 27th, 2007 at 2:55 am
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February 27th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
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