Feb
18th
WordPress Plugin: PostPost (Updated)
Douglas KarrUpdate: This Plugin has been moved to my Projects page and updated to:
PostPost - A WordPress Plugin to place customized content before and after each post in your site or your feed.
I wrote this plugin after trying to add advertising to my feed by myself and getting frustrated. It’s my first ‘complete’ plugin but I think it’s written very cleanly. I really figured out the Plugin architecture utilizing Simple Thoughts’ Copyright Plugin. I utilized the construction of Ryan Duff’s WP Contact Form plugin to write it much more constructively. It’s an excellent plugin to download and learn how to write a plugin since it’s so simple.
Just an FYI, I totally rewrote the plugin and have posted it again. The original was fine, but the upgrade has a full admin interface on it! I’ve reposted this post as well.
Doug
Fun stuff… and 2 goals down! (One of my others was to get into the Top 5,000 at Technorati… I hit that already but it was with the assistance of many “Z-List” posts, so I’ll wait for the stats to iron themselves out before I celebrate).
Cheers!
Doug
Not meant as a complaint, as I don’t even use them any more (terminated my account :
Thanks!
I did see some older rules where it stated 4 per page - but those appear to be long gone. Perhaps because of situations like this. Interesting! I also notice that sometimes an ad is not generated by the script - I wonder if they have an internal control mechanism built in.
Recently added to this blog, plugin and widget wise, is
Do Follow - Allow commenters own sites to get the juice they deserve :>
PostPost - A way of automatically adding content (in my case adverts) after your posts. (Also has a lot of other options av…
One request, and two bugs.
Well the bugs may be down to my theme, I’m not sure…
1 - Would it be possible to alter the frequency of inserted adverts between posts - I feel I now have too many ads on my site :> I originally thought on the possibility of basing this on odd and even numbered posts, but I then realised that post numbers with no post attached weren’t re-used in WP. Example, you write a draft, post a few other posts, then delete the draft. Unless there is another reason for my post #s not being concurrent, you would end up with a sequence like 431,433,434 . Not sure how easy it would be to implement a POST_AD_POST_POST_AD_POST_POST sort of layout, any thoughts?
2 - (ONLY) When looking at posts via clicking on my Categories, often the ad code isn’t interpreted - this only seems to occur on short posts. As an example, if you go to my site and click on the Pictures categories, the first three posts display the code, not the output.
3 - Doesn’t appear to work when requesting adverts in the footer section.
Like I said, these issues may be down to the theme I’m using (Anaconda, check my site for a link), I was just hoping to get your input on this when you get a moment…
If you happen to find 5/10 minutes spare, could you contact me, and I’ll happily re-insert the code, if you fancy tracing the issue.
Thanks.
I tried checking the project page, but couldn’t see a comment section, so mailed you a while back.
I’m now not using ads in the same way, but wonder if other users might still find the features I mentioned above useful.
No hurry requested on my part - I’m fiddling with other things myself right now…
I can’t seem to get it working on my blog, though. I’m reading at WordPress support that some other folks are having problems with their template and the is_single function. It doesn’t break anything, it just doesn’t display anything.
Let me know if it works for your blog, though!