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article2sidebar

Articles to Sidebar allow you to put some articles into the sidebar of pages.

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Tested up to WordPress 2.8
Current version1.1
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 2.8
Minimum stackWP 2.0 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update14 Aug 200917y ago
Active installations10Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records article2sidebar version 1.1 as active, updated 17y ago and tested up to WordPress 2.8.

Overview

About this plugin

Articles to Sidebar allow you to put some articles into the sidebar of pages.

When you use WP as a “normal” CMS, you could want to add some custom boxes into the pages’ sidebars.

Whith “Articles to Sidebar” you can write articles, put them into:

  • a special category (in order to display to all pages)
  • a category called the same as the current page
  • both special category and category called the same as the curent page

When the article is displayed into the sidebar, the fist images it contains is used to illustrate.

The displayed content is the article’s excerpt. --more--> tag) is used and if there is no extend, one is computed (55 first words) and used.

You can choose to put a link to the article or not. That behavior can be chanched for each articles by using a custom boolean var (articles2sidebar_display_link: 1 force link | force no link).

Versions

1 first public release

1 better handling of little images; adding the link to image when present

Translations

Actually, there are no translations, but the plugin code is ready for them.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • articles
  • categories
  • pages
  • sidebar
  • widget
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 2.8

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 2.8.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to2.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 2.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity14 Aug 200917y ago

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