New Exc-el-wide Recent Posts widget January 15, 2007
Posted by David Gilmour in : Exc-el, WPMU, WordPress, blogging , trackbackAny Exc-el blogger can now display the latest posts from the whole Exc-el blog system. All they need is a Sidebar Widget-friendly theme. (You can check themes for widget-friendliness here.)
It’s done with Skcsknathan001’s WPMU-Recent-Posts widget.
You can currently see it working in the right sidebar of this eduBuzz pilot blog.
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Now that is very good! It would be nice to see this up front somewhere.
Just got it working on my blog. It took me a few moments to work out how to make it visible. I think it would be good on the Excel frontpage.
Excellent work. I also agree with Guineapigmum and Robert.
Thanks for the positive feedback. One improvement I need to make is to change the default title, which is currently ADA RECENT POSTS. Not exactly helpful, although it can be changed using the widget’s config button.
I’ll aim to build it in as you suggest.
Next step is to come up with a way of displaying some snippets of the posts. I want visitors to be able to sample the “buzz” going on, as if they were walking into a room and overhearing snippets of conversations they can join. So far, they can see who’s talking, but not what they’re saying… maybe there’s a parallel with when you first arrive and you can see who’s talking, but you’re not near enough to hear?
For true authenticity, of course, I should maybe have a loud bore at the top, with all POSTS IN CAPS?
Careful what you say or I MIGHT START POSTING IN CAPS