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This looks like a great plugin for pages, but does anyone know of a similar plugin for posts? Posts have the management and syndication functionality that I need, but it’s really tough to set them up in the right reading order using dates/times.

Thanks for any help!
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Hi, if you want to get WP posts to take Excel tables, I found that you could copy the Excel cells and then paste it in using the “Paste from Word” feature. You have to click the Kitchen Sink button on the editor to make that button show up (a whole new row of buttons shows up).

The data comes in as a plain table with no formatting, but the information is editable, so your authors will be able to update the text.

However, I can’t figure out how to add whole new rows to the table once it’s pasted in, so there’s a limit there.

Best of luck!

If you download the post as a file to your computer, instead of letting Excel open it from the web, you can do anything you want with it. But you’ll need to re-upload it and replace the old file after you’re done editing. If you go to Manage / Media Library (in 2.5) you can work with the files you’ve uploaded.

There might be a way to get Excel to work directly with the file that is in your WP online, but I don’t know how.

Hi Rob, that is a cool idea. Not a WP or Ajax expert, but one way that might work is to change the article list pages to show full articles instead of excerpts, and then use some sort of javascript hide/show code for each post to hide x amount of the post until a “show” link is clicked.
The problem I can see right off is the post appearance – the hide code would have to conform to the line height of the post text so that it wouldn’t hide half of a line. Also, each javascript call would have to have a different identifier, or the “show” command would unhide all of the posts on the page.
You’d also need to put …. before the Show link (like “…. Read More” pr something) so the sentence wouldn’t just stop where the hide starts.

All I can think of atm, hopefully someone with more skillz than I will weigh in with a solid answer 🙂

thanks much, it’s totally non-obvious that that brings you to an edit page for the comment.

Ok, I’ll be the second to let you know – it actually works 🙂 This is definitely worth a donation btw, I’m nearly finished with polishing the site and plugins I’m using so if you have a link up, you can expect a few bucks soon.

After working with it, I’d suggest perhaps simplifying it to let you just add reminders individually so you can select different time intervals from the last login and add email addresses for each one.

You could put in a couple of default ones like “notify the backup administrator” and of course “next of kin” to keep people from forgetting those uses.

Thanks again for coding something so useful!

Hi, just ran into the same issue and here’s a link to what looks like a good answer

Hope it helps!