• Resolved Parwaiz Khan

    (@parwaiz-khan)


    Hello,
    How can I use the “Posts in Sidebar” to list posts in page? The plugin states:

    “The plugin has also a shortcode, that you can use in your posts/pages to list your posts.”

    How to accomplish it – do we have to use another plugin to first crate a ‘widget zone’ in the page?

    [I am using the “Hueman” theme.]

    Thank you.

    Thank you.

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  • Plugin Author Aldo Latino

    (@aldolat)

    Hello,
    you can use a shortcode to list your posts without installing any other plugin.

    I made some example in this page on GitHub.

    The shortcode doesn’t support all the plugin’s options yet, but it’s on development.

    Let me know if you need further help.

    Thread Starter Parwaiz Khan

    (@parwaiz-khan)

    Thank you very much for looking into it and guiding me – posted the code [pissc cat=”- – -“].

    It pulled the posts, but how can we include the post thumbnails along with the post excerpts?

    Thread Starter Parwaiz Khan

    (@parwaiz-khan)

    Hello Aldolat,

    As I mentioned, The short code pulled the excerpts but not the images/thumbnails.

    I have made all the possible selections in the PIS option menu in the sidebar (where I have placed the widget) – nothing is working.

    The plugin certainly seems to be capable of doing what it says, but I don’t know what I am missing.

    Thank you.

    Plugin Author Aldo Latino

    (@aldolat)

    Hello,

    As I mentioned, The short code pulled the excerpts but not the images/thumbnails.

    See the example below.

    I have made all the possible selections in the PIS option menu in the sidebar (where I have placed the widget) – nothing is working.

    The widget and the shortcode are two totally different things and they work independently. What you choose in the widget is not reflected in the shortcode (and viceversa).

    The plugin certainly seems to be capable of doing what it says, but I don’t know what I am missing.

    The documentation is not complete yet, as I wrote yesterday. It’s hosted on GitHub and I hope to finish it as soon as possible.

    Here is an example of shortcode:

    
    [pissc excerpt=excerpt display_image=1 image_size=large image_align=center]
    

    excerpt can be: none or only_read_more or excerpt or more_excerpt or content or rich_content or full_content. For more informations about these types of text, please see this page.

    display_image can be: 1 for displaying the featured image or 0 for hiding the featured image.

    image_size can be: thumbnail or medium or large or any other image size you or your current theme have defined.

    image_align can be: nochange or left or right or center.

    Let me know, please.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Aldo Latino.
    • This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Aldo Latino.
    Thread Starter Parwaiz Khan

    (@parwaiz-khan)

    Mr Aldolat,
    I don’t know how to thank you – unbeliebale support. I hope the community here will recognize your active contribution and help to individuals.

    It was actually a ‘name’ conflict – my bad. I was giving the same name (‘Home’ – the page name) to the sidebar ID (using another plugin). Changing the sidebar name resolved the issue and your plugin is pulling the sample posts’ excerpts.

    Now, clicking the ‘Title’ takes to the post – but, the same doesn’t happen on the image thumbnails – How can we make the image thumbnails pull the relevent url?

    Also, is there a way to display post in 2-3 columns, instead of showing in rows (single column)?

    The website that I am working on (it is an html site that I am in the process of transforming into a wordpress site) is ” http://lifevibrant.com “.

    Thank you again.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Parwaiz Khan.
    Plugin Author Aldo Latino

    (@aldolat)

    I don’t know how to thank you – unbeliebale support. I hope the community here will recognize your active contribution and help to individuals.

    It’s a pleasure to help you users! 🙂

    Now, clicking the ‘Title’ takes to the post – but, the same doesn’t happen on the image thumbnails – How can we make the image thumbnails pull the relevent url?

    I took a look at your site and noticed this strange thing. Never seen it before. The URL is substituted with %20 code. Perhaps your current theme or another plugin is making something weird.

    The best advice I can give you is to test another theme (one of the themes bundled with WordPress) and view if this behavior is resolved. If not, try disabling all the plugins except PiS. This method should resolve the issue.

    Also, is there a way to display post in 2-3 columns, instead of showing in rows (single column)?

    Using your current theme, this code will make two columns:

    
    li.pis-li {
        width: 48%;
        float: left;
        margin-right: 4%;
    }
    
    li.pis-li:last-child {
        margin-right: 0;
    }
    
    .entry li.pis-li {
        list-style: none;
    }
    

    Let me know, please.

    Thread Starter Parwaiz Khan

    (@parwaiz-khan)

    Good Morning here in the US – and, “Buon Giorno”, come se chiama in Italia.

    Regarding the URL “%20”, PIS has in the field, “http://example.com/ . . .” When I deleted it (by entering the space key), it automatically entered the “http://%20” in the space – That was the problem. I reverted it back to what it was. And, lo and behold, images are now linked to the relevant posts.

    I am going to put your solution for the columns to work now – I have already read (and copied) your relevant responses on the “support” thread, and, since I can do most of the needed css tweaking on the front side, the rest of the modifications must be easy. I may be coming back to seek your help when I cannot figure out the ‘elements’ that need to be tweaked.

    Once done with the initial page design work, I have the task of posting 100s of my html articles, essays, and monographs – may take a couple of months to edit and transfer all the work.

    In the next few days, I will be posting a detailed review of the PIS plugin – it is a powerful and fully featured plugin. And, above all, you are a great support.

    Thank you so very much.

    Best Regard,

    Parwaiz

    it was the pre-filled URL in the PIS field – I had deleted it. But, it seems that it keeps on reinstating itself –

    Plugin Author Aldo Latino

    (@aldolat)

    Good Morning to you, Parwaiz 🙂

    Regarding the URL “%20”, PIS has in the field, “http://example.com/ . . .” When I deleted it (by entering the space key), it automatically entered the “http://%20” in the space – That was the problem. I reverted it back to what it was. And, lo and behold, images are now linked to the relevant posts.

    […]

    it was the pre-filled URL in the PIS field – I had deleted it. But, it seems that it keeps on reinstating itself –

    The string http://example.com/ is a simple placeholder and tells the user how to enter a URL. Nothing more. There are a lot of placeholders in the PiS fields, but they do nothing: they are there only to help the users. 🙂

    You can safely ignore them.

    Best Regards

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