New Exc-el-wide Recent Posts widget
Posted by David Gilmour on January 15th, 2007
Any 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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January 16th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Now that is very good! It would be nice to see this up front somewhere.
January 16th, 2007 at 10:31 am
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.
January 17th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Excellent work. I also agree with Guineapigmum and Robert.
January 17th, 2007 at 8:35 am
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?
January 17th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Careful what you say or I MIGHT START POSTING IN CAPS