Comments on: Configuring the Post Plugins

By: Susan Kitchens

Susan Kitchens — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:21:22 +0000

p.s. tho the last post said you can see it when you visit the site, I since went and uploaded a very small square thumbnail, so that the image that shows on the front page isn’t squashed. (You see it when you click through to an individual post; there are 2 images, a small square one, and the “real” image.)

I see from elsewhere that this plugin won’t crop images.

What isn’t clear to me is whether it can pull from the WordPress-generated thumbnail for an uploaded image.

By: Susan Kitchens

Susan Kitchens — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:24:19 +0000

I’m working with Recent Posts for display in a sidebar of a site.

I’d like to somehow display the image as a cropped square thumbnail. Or else use the Output Settings to grab the special square-thumb version that I have put in the EXCERPT part of the blog post.

Here’s the code I’m using for OUTPUT:

{link}
{image}

{excerpt} Go »

I’ve made special square versions of the photos, and uploaded the square photos in the EXCERPT portion of the WordPress admin section for the blog post in question.

The plugin seems to be processing the image that’s in the body of the post. They’re showing squashed.

You can see the current state of things by visiting http://www.oralhistory.org/ and viewing left sidebar under “Feature”

(I’ll next attempt to force a proportional thumbnail image using width tags)

Thanks for any help/enlightenment you can provide!

By: Tom Copeland

Tom Copeland — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:26:55 +0000

Great plugin. Quick question on syntax for output -
Trying to get the excerpt and sentences to work. What’s the syntax? I’ve tried:
{excerpt:sentences=1}, {excerpt sentences:1}, {excerpt sentences=1}
Can you show me an example of how to properly use the string?
Already rated this bad boy, awesome and super powerful – great work!
T

By: Bewitched

Bewitched — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:24:41 +0000

Hi, I’m using Popular Posts and I’m trying to customize the output. Currently it looks like this: {link}

I’ve tried to add some variables to limit the number of symbols (maxlength:method) but when I add them the plugin seems to stop woking (I see nothing on the web site). So something like {link:maxlength:method} doesn’t work for some reason.

Thanks!

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:09:11 +0000

I want to have a widget that omits one post on the front page, but then doesn’t omit it on other pages. Is there a way to do this?

By: Paul Gardner

Paul Gardner — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:59:02 +0000

I have installed the Popular Posts plugin and activated it (after first installing the post-plugins library). But when I try to enter the configuration page, I get the following error: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

I am using the admin account and this is the first time I’ve ever had a plugin deny me access to it. Any ideas where I might be going wrong here?

By: Fritz

Fritz — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:22:50 +0000

The mysql database table for “similar_posts” has grown to over 9000Kb in size. My blog has around 2000 posts.

Can I just empty the table to reduce the bloat?

By: rocktivity

rocktivity — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:46:13 +0000

Ideally, I would like my post page to have the current post in its entirely in the main area, and links to the next six posts in the sidebar. Can there me more than one recent post command?

By: Jesus Enrique Rosas

Jesus Enrique Rosas — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:02:35 +0000

never mind, i got it thank you for a great plugin!

By: Jesus Enrique Rosas

Jesus Enrique Rosas — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:52:32 +0000

Hey Rob, i hope you are doing well. ¿How i can style the text? i´m sure this is a dumb question, but been looking around how can i just adjust the font´s size. Obviously i´m not a PHP wizard, just entry / aficionado level. Thank you very much.