Comments on: WordPress Plugin/Widget for Must Read Posts

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:00:16 +0000

Doug, I think the formatting got lost in the comment. But you may want to have a look at this PHP function:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

This will strip all HTML code from a string.

Cheers,
Jan

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:08:26 +0000

I write some programming but I am not a PHP programmer. I am using your plugin but I have one hitch. The name of the post has the text formating showing up in the sidebar. Can you help me with some sample code to parse it out? If I could parse the string into an array and then grab the section that I need and throw it back into the correct variable..That’s what I am thinking. Suggestions?

I need this to show up….
Discover Muhammad Ali’s tricks for rolling with the punches

But I am getting this…
Discover Muhammad Ali’s tricks for rolling with the punches

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:29:07 +0000

Hi Jan,

I resolved it making a /must-read-posts_2 folder in /plugins, and then copy your .php into it but replacing every “mustread” to “mustread_2″.

It is working just fine.

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:28:48 +0000

Alejandro, I’m afraid, I don’t have a clue how to load the plugin twice. This seems to be a generic WP issue that you can’t use a plugin twice with different settings. I know some plugins have coded around this but I have no idea how it works.

Cheers,
Jan

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:53:03 +0000

This is an excellent plugin. I use it as a Widget. I did a little modification to the code in order to show the date of the post in the must read list.

I would like you to help me. I would like to use it twice in my blog. Right now I am using it as “What I recommend”, but also I want to add another list like “About some theme”.

Once I use it for the first list, it disappear from the Widgets Dashboard.

Thanks in advance.

By: Pär

Pär — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:48:04 +0000

Hi and thanx for a great plugin that I have used for a while. I have a suggestion for improvemnt though. I would like to show the latest ‘must-read’ posts and not have to change the custom field to remove old ones. Ie: if I put 5 as the limit I would like the plugin to show only the 5 latest post with the ‘must-read’ flag, sorted with the latest one on top. I guess this is a rather simple sql-thing an if I manage to tweak it myself I will let you know. Thanx again!

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By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:29:49 +0000

I’d like a thumbnail with this plugin!

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:25:51 +0000

That’s one cool idea! I will implement this for the next version of the plugin.

By: Falcatruan

Falcatruan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:19:01 +0000

Hi, I just want to report you about a very simple tweak I’ve done in your plugin code (just a trick #77, xDD):
I use this plugin to suggest music listenings to my visitors. I found it very helpful but I wanted to list a random selection, not just the latest. I added a ORDER BY RAND() to the Sql envolved queries just before the LIMIT statement. This way visitors will find different suggestions each time they reload de page.

I think It would be nice if you included a check box to automate this behaviour from the options panel.

Thanks for this plugin!!

By: Al Brittain

Al Brittain — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:28:29 +0000

Does exactly what I needed – thanks!

It’d be nice to be able to drag the posts around in the widget to change the order, although it’s easy enough to sort the way it is now.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:35:58 +0000

Marie, I’m afraid that I can’t give you any advice as I am not very skilled in PHP myself.

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:38:12 +0000

Hi Jan,

I would like to use your code to insert whole posts on a page.
I want it to work as if I choose must-read, the whole post should be displayed on the page.

Do you know how I can do that?
I tried by myself but the whole thing went totally bad.

By: Jeff Harding

Jeff Harding — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:15:34 +0000

OK, got it.

By: Jeff Harding

Jeff Harding — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:02:59 +0000

I forgot where to find the custom field!

By: Jeff Harding

Jeff Harding — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:11:33 +0000

Thanks for the help!

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:47:17 +0000

Jeff, I just set it to 20 and and there’s absolutely nothing odd happening. You may have entered a space or character in the box accidentally. I can’t see that something like this could happen by entering just a different value.

By: Jeff Harding

Jeff Harding — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:10:51 +0000

Is there a finite limit on the number of posts? I changed it from 10 to 20 and it crashed my site. Worked great until then. I use it as a widget.
Thanks.

By: DrFaulken

DrFaulken — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:59:52 +0000

This plugin was just what I needed. Thank you very much!

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:50:21 +0000

Dains, I’m pretty sure you will find such a plug-in on Wordpress’ plugin site.

By: dains

dains — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:27:07 +0000

Hi, I’m looking for an expanded version of this. I’d like to put the posts from a category onto pages instead of having to mark every post. I’d be using a customized page template so code wouldn’t be an issue.

Have you any thoughts on how your plugin might be extended to do this?

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:12:11 +0000

Sorting is on it’s way, I just need some time to upload it to the plugin repository.

By: Lee Seats

Lee Seats — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:07:32 +0000

Thanks for the great widget plug-in. I’d too like to vote for a way to modify the order. It might be easiest to do it by accepting a numeric value for the must-read field and listing the posts based on those numbers. As a user I would enter say 10,20,30, and 40 as my initial order and then I could have the flexibility to put new posts between those without re-entering all the numbers.

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By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:49:38 +0000

Bill, at the moment the posts are unsorted. This means they appear as they are provided by the database. I understand that this is not an ideal way of handling the sort order. I’m planning to add some sort of sorting mechanism but I can’t say when it will be ready.

Cheers,
Jan