kinda like Matt’s Asides?
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jmoses
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uhhh…maybe? have a link to that? I swear I looked for something like this. Perhaps not hard enough…
Well, there is room for two “shorties” in this arena, Matt’s does count towards post limit:
http://wordpress.org/support/10/5606
You can see how he has it implemented (I also have it on my site)
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jmoses
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Yeah, almost exactly like that. I’m sure we do it almost exactly the same, as well. The part that required thought was how to not make the short links / asides not count towards your post limit.
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jmoses
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Currently I have a couple ugly hacks in place to enable my sidebar. I am using (and mangeling) Matt’s Asides by changing the “If” statement from his loop
<?php if ($posts) { foreach($posts as $post) { start_wp(); ?>
<?php if (in_category(2) && !$single ) { //code below is for link post ?>
<?php } else { // code below prints normal posts (without excluded links category) ?>
AND I have a second loop taken from 2fargons method (and using his improved functions.php) in the sidebar
<?php $posts = get_posts('order=ASC&category=2&orderby=name&offset=0&numberposts=4'); foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp()?>
This is ugly and ineffeciant and doesn’t get me quite the results I want because “Aside” posts out of order and counted against the total. I tried to use this plugin to fix that, but it was skipping a normal post which should have been published (maybe becuase I had 2 Asides on the same day?). If anyone can explain why this was happening, or point out a way to improve my current hack I’d be very happy.
There was a problem with a couple intermediate posts being skipped so now the end of line 106 of the plugin reads ("numberposts=$left")
. This may also cause trouble, though ATM everything seems OK.
I cannot get those two posts to appear on the main page. I think that this is because there are a couple deleted posts that are throwing off the backfill function (but I could be wrong). Assuming I am correct, you need to count gap between legetimate posts and adjust the backfill offset accordingly. In any event I am leaving my setup as is but can’t recommend it.