Purpose: Almost all of the current Wordpress plugins that provide asides functionality require the manual editing of template files and/or special fields to implement the asides. Matt’s original solution is great: Just write a post under the asides category, and it will be displayed as an aside. However, his solution also requires editing files. Simple Asides attempts to create Matt-style simple asides without the hassle of modifying other files or using special fields.
Installation Instructions:
- Place the contents of simpleasides.zip (
simpleasides.php, sa-options.php, simpleasides.css) inwp-content/plugins/simpleasides. Create the directorysimpleasidesif it doesn’t exist. - Activate the plugin through the control panel
- Configure the plugin (asides category and asides CSS) under Options.
Usage:
Once you have designated what category Simple Asides will consider to be the asides category under Options, just make sure your posts are in that category. Simple Asides will automatically display them as asides.
How Simple Asides Work:
Simple Asides uses HTML comments to “comment out” surrounding HTML code and injects its own format into the content to create the asides look.
Update (09/03/06): Wordpress 2.0.4 broke versions 0.2.4 and below of Simple Asides. The latest version, 0.2.5, fixes this.
Update (04/27/06): Fix for removing asides in RSS feeds. Thanks to Gary King for pointing this out.
Update (04/12/06): Wordpress 2.0.2 broke the plugin by messing up the administration pages check. This has now been fixed.
Download Simple Asides (0.2.5 on 09/03/06): [zip] (6KB). Works with Wordpress 2.0.4 and Kubrick theme.
Previous version (works with WP 2.0.3 and below): Download Simple Asides (0.2.4 on 04/27/06): [zip] (6KB).
Previous version: Simple Asides (0.2.3 on 04/12/06): [zip] (6KB)
Previous version: Simple Asides (0.2.2 on 12/27/05): [zip] (6KB)
Previous version: Simple Asides (0.2.0 on 08/25/05): [zip] (5KB)
Previous version: Simple Asides (0.1.0 on 06/16/05): [zip] (3KB)
(WARNING: This plugin has only been tested on Wordpress 1.5.2 and 2.0.x with the Kubrick theme. There is no guarantee that other versions or themes may work. Support is not officially offered. This means that I will not be actively handling support requests although please report bugs to me. Feel free to take the code and modify it for your own uses (and even re-release it as your own plugin).)