As you may have noticed on this page or in your aggregator my normal entries are now interspersed with smaller link and commentary entries represented in an unordered list. These fall in chronological order with my other entries and are real posts with permalinks, comments, categories, trackbacks, and pingbacks. I have been wanting to do this for a long time and there was a flood of entries when I first got this working. I fully expect to post in this category with a much higher frequency than my normal posts. I come across things all the time that I want to link so badly but I just don’t have the time to write an entry about. Now every interesting tidbit I come across is just a click of a favelet away from my readers. It’s liberating.
The format of a weblog dictates its writing. There is no getting around this. Ever since my redesign I’ve had these big important titles that—as a writer—are intimidating. Everything I write has to be worthy of its 32-point Dante banner. This was a deliberate to force myself to put more thought and effort into my entries and it has worked; some of my best writing has been since the redesign. It has been stifling as well. To express what I want to express these days I need something more dynamic.
This type of linklog is nothing new. I first saw it at Kottke and since have enjoyed it at Charles Gagalac’s site. Charles was the first person I know of to do it in WordPress. This inline style fits my requirements very well, the biggest being that I wanted to use my existing post taxonomy so a second weblog would have been inconvienent. I also get the benefit of a combined RSS feed and combined update pinging. More than all of that though, I don’t want to limit myself to one type of post in a new weblog, or in this one. I already have plans to use this feature to not only highlight interesting links, but comments I make on other sites, upcoming gigs I have, photolog updates, and various activities and writing I now have spread out over a half-dozen blogs. It’s a perfect application for WordPress‘ multiple sub-categories feature. Technically, the whole thing was very easy to implement.
First I made a new category all of these posts would be a part of, it was late and I couldn’t think of anything too clever, so I went with “Asides.” This may have been subconciously inspired by Movable Blog. So I created the category in WordPress, and it had an ID of 33. Next it was simply a matter of telling my template that if a post was in the Asides category to lay it out a little differently. I wrote a quick function, in_category()
that does this with no additional DB queries that is now in the WordPress CVS and will be in the 1.2 release. The function takes a single argument, a category ID, and it returns true if the current post is in that category. Here’s what I have in my post loop:
<?php if (in_category(33) && !$single) { ?>
<ul class="asides">
<li id="p<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php echo wptexturize($post->post_content); echo ' '; comments_popup_link('(0)', '(1)', '(%)')?> <?php edit_post_link('(e)'); ?></li>
</ul>
<?php } else { ?>
So basically what this is saying is that if the post is in category #33 and we’re not on a permalink page to format it using that code, otherwise do our normal thing. We have a simple unordered list with a uniquely ID’d list item. (The ID is a throwback to about two years ago when I had a heavily hacked version of b2 with monthly archives. Can’t let those permalinks break.) I get the post content directly because I didn’t want to mess with the normal filters (like autop) applied to the_content()
. I run it through texturize to keep everything pretty. Then I have a simple comment link, and finally a link that only I see that allows me to easily edit any entry. This worked great, but you can see that I have a separate unordered list for each entry, which isn’t what I want; I want all consectutive aside entries to be part of a single list. This gets tricky because you have to start the list when the current entry is an aside but the newer entry and stop it when the next entry is not an aside. Tricky tricky, and I don’t want to think what would happen if someone decided to reorder my content. I had only allocated myself ten minutes for this entire project and I was at minute number eight, so it came time for ugly code:
function stupid_hack($str) {
return preg_replace('|</ul>\s*<ul class="asides">|', '', $str);
}
ob_start('stupid_hack');
I swear that’s the actual code in my template. Put it somewhere around the top of the template, it really doesn’t matter where. It’s a hack, but it’s been working great. Simon says it is “ugly as sin,” and that’s what I thought when I wrote it. Since then, however, it has grown on me a bit. It’s like the supermodel who goes out every day dressed to the nines relaxing at home in a bathrobe, slippers, and no makeup. I keep the pretty code elsewhere, here at home I’m a little more casual. Perhaps when I have a little free time I’ll put in the more complicated logic I described above but if it ain’t broke…
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Thank you for sharing the information, I had “asides” running on my site for some time now using this tip. I tried to impliment your method (because I does not mess with autop), but it creates a weird problem with links. s are added where they don’t belong in links and abbreviations i.e.
<a href="http://secure.sixapart.com/">
?/me decides she needs to do this with the next generation of everytomorrow.org.
Argg, my comment got all messed up.
I’ve been using Charles’s variant for a few weeks now, and it’s working great. Except of course for the fact that entries are being sorted chronologically and not categorically and then chronologically. I swear, I need to teach myself PHP so I can do these kinds of things myself and not continually apply pressure to you WP guys 😉
An interesting approach.
I’d really like to get this code up and running on my blog but I’m having trouble. I’m struggling to know where in the loop to place the code and how to terminate it so that I don’t get a parse error at this line
<?php endforeach; else: ?>
Have you any advice? Thanks
Ever since my redesign I’ve had these big important titles that””as a writer””are intimidating.
Oh my god, I wrote almost the same exact sentence yesterday in my post announcing my redesign. The problem with the way my old site used to look was each post felt so BIG. Hopefully, my new design will make it easier on the eyes when I post a bunch of one or two liners.
Aside, from WordPress
Matthew WordPress Mullenweg tells about inline links using WordPress….
Matt, can you provide where you added the … code?
Folding In Meme Fatigue
After pondering what to do with Meme Fatigue, even though it’s only two weeks old, I’ve found having a blog of briefs too handy to just let it go. However, it probably makes more sense to re-incorporate it into the main weblog in some way. Here’s my…
Matt, you are mssing a on the stupid_hack, it is:
return preg_replace('|s*
|', '', $str);
And it should be:
return preg_replace('|s*
|', '', $str);
Darn, comments destroyed. It should be s* instead is just *s.
ENCODE YOUR HTML! Or don’t post code.
Don’t play with trackbacks late at night
So i just finished this rather long post about linklogs and wordpress and wanted to trackback the linked posts by matt mullenweg, markku seguerra and adam gessaman but guess what: the idiot i am and the late hour it is i tried to trackback the permalin…
RE: Comment 6
I have the same problem, where exactly are we supposed to put the code if we were using the default unmodified template?
You preg_replace is a little borked 🙂
`return preg_replace(‘|s*
|’, ”, $str);`
it seems i have to scroll down a page before i can get to your content. i don’t really know what all those links are, and wether or not i should be reading them.
*shrugs*
Quick Links
Shorter entries like this are easily posted using Matt Mullenweg’s Asides hack.
I’ve been thinking about how to integrate the “link and run” part of my weblog for a while. Nothing has worked as well as I would like.
But I have to say that the way you are doing it has taught me a clear lesson in how not to do it. It’s very annoying to have to sift through such a length of links to see the real content. I much prefer either a separate log (for frequent posting) or these links consolidated into a daily/weekly/irregular posting (for less frequent posting).
I hope I can find some way to subscribe to the two separately still!
Could I request a separate RSS or Atom feed that includes only the long posts (not the asides)?
Yeah I’m going to do a seperate feed.
We know that Matt really meant to write: (note the additional \)
function stupid_hack($str) {
return preg_replace('|</ul>\s*<ul class="asides">|', '', $str);
}
Can you give me any kind of guidance about where to place the stupid_hack code?
For those having trouble I posted my entire index template to the wiki:
http://wiki.wordpress.org/PhotoMatt/index.php
Does that function in_category also scan the children categories? I need to exclude posts from a certain category and all it’s children, because those posts are being used for something other than my “blog”.
WordPress Asides
I’ve implemented an edited version of the “Asides” functionality developed by PhotoMatt. I also used some edited code by MtDewVirus, from the WordPress forum thread.
This is now the code for the “post” loop in my index.php file:
< ?php i...
Here is my situation. I have a site where there are 5 bloggers, each with their own category. I have them all as the same level, but don’t want them to be able to edit each others posts. Is there a quick index.php hack to make this happen? I’ve posted in the wp support forum, but havent gotten an answer. Thanks.
Great tip.
It wouldn’t seem like such a silly hack if you called it combineAdjacentAsideLists() or something sensible like that!
Implementing asides
Please excuse any funkyness like the entry below over the next couple of days.
I’m in the middle of implementing Photo Matt’s asides onto this blog. With work and all, it’s getting harder and harder to blog every time that I would like to. Howe…
Very nifty. Can’t get that stupid_hack to work for the life of me, though (PHP and WP are both still a little new to me).
Asides Implemented
After much angst today, I have been able to implement asides, via the hint given at Matt’s website. They are the short posts you see interspersed to create the links. I will at some point in the future post the exact code I used, feel free to email …
Is there any reason why you would not want to use a simple flag to signal the opening and closing of a group of asides?
Granted this isn’t the prettiest code either, but it definitely beats having to parse all outputs searching for regex matches.
Something along the line of:
if (! $opened_list)
{
    $opened_list = true;
    echo "
";
}
and
    if ($opened_list)
    {
        echo "";
        $opened_list = false;
    }
both judiciously placed within the template (there’s more to it, but it’s fairly trivial, I think), ought to do the trick…
arg. damn formatting function ate my <ul> and </ul> in the previous comment…
Asides
I’ve implemented asides, as described by Matt of photomatt. This is a preliminary test.
I’m having problems with this lovely hack. I get all sorts of parse errors (“unexpected $ in /…/wordpress/index.php on line 184 – that’s towards the end of my index.php (for a readable version: http://www.matthiasheil.de/wordpress/index.phps – Could it be I’m missing out on sth important here?
Thanks for your help!
I’ve got it sorted – thanks to Beel@Wordpress! – I love this mod, especially when combined with the FeedDemon2WP-Hack!-)
Binary Thoughts Enhancements 2
The following enhancements have been made to Binary Thoughts.
Short posts that contain only external links can be made using the Asides feature.
Posting times are now in human readable terms powered by the Time-Of-Day plugin.
Posting times are now…
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I’m looking for something jut like this…
but what if I don’t want the post to appear at all!!!??…
like, I don’t want the post on the category 33 to show in my index.. never… (not even in the montly archives)
who do I do that???
can you help me???
Anyone implement this with Kubrick 1.2.6?
Aside 001
Finally updated the the site and hacked in Matt’s Asides……
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06/11/04 @ 01:15
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Blogeintrge in WordPress individuell formatieren
Schon lange will ich einzelne, speziell kurze Blogeintrge individuell in WordPress formatieren. Erscheinen soll nur ein Link plus kurzem eigenen Kommentar, quasi ein Linkblog. Nun wurde ich im WordPress Wiki beim Plugin LinkPost fndig.
After reading about this Plugin, I have decided that I want Matt to develop his “Asides” widget as a plugin for WordPress. Can you do that for us Matt… please?
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Not Really WordPress Asides
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However, it’s not really asides. I’ve modified Matt’s code to meet …
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Modifying Post
I have been planning to have aside category in my blog, until today when I finally managed to conquer my moodiness. Using Customizable Post Listings, so that it will look like the one utilized by Matt Mullenweg but all look the same, both of them are c…
very cool. ive found it easier to use the miniblog plugin though
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Matt, I’m using Asides as implemented in K2 in WordPress.
I’d like to know if it’s possible to control how many posts appear in a list of asides and how long it takes for them to fall off the list. Where can I control these variables?
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[…] Asides That’s how these little notes up here are called. (0) […]
[…] The far right column is used for the usual sidebar entries; Internal links, blog roll and a little summary. However, the middle column is more interesting. The description says that this is used for ‘interesting links in bite size portions’ and that’s pretty much what it is. Similar to Photomatt’s asides and Kottke’s remainders, I use this to gather up the latest tidbits that are interesting but for which, I haven’t written a major entry on. Behind the scenese, these are handled in a similar way to how Matt does it. The entries have all been designated as belonging to a category called shorts. Posts in this category are excluded from retrieval in The_loop. The only proviso is that due to the way WP has been written, items that are assigned to this category must only belong to this category. This is an oversight in the SQL driving The_Loop and I’ll probably write and submit a fix for this issue when I have a bit of time. […]
[…] del.icio.us Clickables – Some folks call them Remaindered Links and others call them Asides. Here at untitledlife we’ve decided to incorporate a del.icio.us account to act as our link repository. So, del.icio.us + untitledlife = del.icio.us Clickables. They’re links to stuff that I find interesting, helpful, and/or humorous. […]
[…] The weather being absolutely atrocious here today (it’s been raining all day) allowed me to devote part of today to further enhancing the site. The first thing I did was to add AJAX commenting. I had already tried it out whilst mucking around with K2 and thought it to be a really cool functionality. Thanks to this post it was a piece of cake! Second up was to implement Matt’s Asides Technique, which is pretty cool too! […]
Hi Matt, not sure if you’re still checking your comments for this post but I was wondering if there was a way to adapt this code to handle more than one category. I’d like to have a number of different layouts for a number of different categories (about five or so). I’ve tried monkeying around with the code a bit but I can’t work it out. It seems like a relatively simple prospect to me, but I could be wrong since I’m a PHP n00b. Thanks for this great tutorial regardless. I do have asides working just fine on my site. 🙂
[…] I think I’m going to start using asides. Asides are short posts with random information that don’t really qualify as a full post. I’m not quite happy with the styling, but this is what an aside looks like. […]
[…] what are these ‘asides’ things? […]
[…] Just wanted to try implementing “asides“, as described by one of the creators of wordpress. Hopefully they’ll let me make more frequent updates, without feeling compelled to writing a full article. This is part of my upgrade to WordPress 2.0, which has already caused me some grief, including finding a couple bugs. […]
thepete, are you thinking something that is more complicated than just:
i was thinking of using this blank quote to block out all photoblog entries, with access to photoblog entries only by clicking on the photoblog category link. think i’ll work? =)
[…] I looked at all kinds of implementations from Photo Matt’s Asides, Coldforged , Yet Another Asides, Mini-Posts, Not Really Asides, as well as just using a separate “asides” post category. Then it struck me that I could kill two birds with one stone. […]
[…] Asides Support: If you want to use Matt’s Asides, K2 comes with a complete implementation, which even allows you to choose whether you want them inline or on the sidebar. […]
[…] Almost done with site structure. Aside system taken from Matt’s hack. […]
[…] I quite like this mod, and may even use it for announcements. But I’m not really sure how worthy it is. This is not a spin off from Asides. […]
[…] So far the front page is functional, but that’s about it. What’s left is to apply my XHTML structure to the rest of the WordPress pages, but I can do that whenever. I should also create some supplimentary content. Lastly, I am going to give credit to Niggle because that’s where my inspiration for “Previous Posts” and “Asides” came from; and I’m going to give credit to Matt’s Asides hack for WordPress, though I didn’t use it and made my own. […]
[…] ajattelin käyttää kaikenlaisten pikkuasioiden kirjoitteluun. Lisää aiheesta: Photo Matt – On Asides. January 12, 200616:17 […]
[…] 之剿›¾ç¶“寫了一篇有關 Extended Live Archive Plugin(以下簡稱 ELA)的 æ•™å¸ï¼Œå› 為出了新的版本 0.10ï¼Œé™¤äº†æ•ˆèƒ½æ”¹å–„åŠ bug fixes ä¹‹å¤–ï¼Œé‚„æ”¯æ´ Matt’s Asides åŠ Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW),當然ä¸å¯ä¸è«‡çš„的改進就是從之å‰ä»¥ Parameters å½¢å¼åŸ·è¡Œï¼Œè®Šæˆçµ±ä¸€åœ¨ä¸€å€‹ Option page å…§åšè¨å®šï¼Œå¯¦åœ¨æ–¹ä¾¿å¾—å¤šï¼Œæœ‰è¦‹åŠæ¤ï¼Œæ‰€ä»¥ä¾¿æ›´æ–°é€™ç¯‡æ•™å¸ã€‚ […]
[…] Decided to put my snippets section back in action today, and implemented Matt’s full solution this time so they’ll be grouped together properly. I’ve also renamed the “Sweet Spots” to Snippets since it’s not just for misc bookmarks. […]
[…] Asides Support: If you want to use Matt’s Asides, K2 comes with a complete implementation, which even allows you to choose whether you want them inline or on the sidebar. […]
[…] Hace poco me tope con el codigo actual, que inclusive fue desarrollado e implementado por el mismo Matt -quien es uno de los desarrolladores de WordPress- en su blog. El los llamo Asides y se basan en posts con una categoria ‘especial’. De hecho el codigo es bastante sencillo, y justo cuando me disponia a escribir como es que se hacia me encontre con que alguien mas ya lo habia hecho. […]
[…] I forgot that I added Asides using K2. Let’s see if they can revitalize AxBlog. […]
[…] I’m using k2 now instead of Kubrick. I did this mostly for asides but the fact is I like a lot of other things about this theme too. Search […]
[…] कल à¤à¤• नटखट सी ननà¥à¤¹à¥€ पोसà¥à¤Ÿ लिखी और सोचा कि ज़रा मैट के असाईड का करिशà¥à¤®à¤¾ देखा जाये। असाईड वरà¥à¤¡à¤ªà¥à¤°à¥‡à¤¸ की के-टू थीम के साथ उपलबà¥à¤§ है और इसके दà¥à¤µà¤¾à¤°à¤¾ संकà¥à¤·à¤¿à¤ªà¥à¤¤ से पोसà¥à¤Ÿ सरलता से दिखायें जा सकते हैं, ईनलाईन या फिर साईडबार पर, मिनी बà¥à¤²à¥‰à¤— की तरह। कितने पोसà¥à¤Ÿ दिखायें जायें, कौन सी शà¥à¤°à¥‡à¤£à¥€ वाले पोसà¥à¤Ÿ दिखें, सब कà¥à¤› कंफीगर किया जा सकता है। सब ठीक था जब तक कि फीड से जागरूक हà¥à¤ पंकज की टिपà¥à¤ªà¤£à¥€ नहीं आई, बोले मà¥à¤à¥‡ यह पोसà¥à¤Ÿ दिखती कà¥à¤¯à¥‹à¤‚ नहीं? तफà¥à¤¤à¥€à¤¶ की तो बात सही थी, पोसà¥à¤Ÿ साईडबार पर सही दिखती थी पर सà¥à¤¥à¤¾à¤ˆ कड़ी पर नदारद हो जाती थी। […]
[…] E pois que não há. Nem tenho escrito nada por aqui. Já devem ter dado pela confusão que vai ali em baixo na zona dos “Apontamentos” não? Pois é. Tenho andado à s voltas com a melhor forma de garantir a existencia de pequenas entradas que não justifiquem uma entrada aqui em cima mas que possam ser arquivadas para posterior referência. Já tentei as mais variadas soluções desde os famosos Matt Asides, ao Recent Links e o Miniblog. Entre estes dois últimos já alternei várias vezes de forma a garantir o acesso via RSS mas também a garantir que posso ter uma página de arquivo destas pequenas pérolas. Aparentemente optei pelo Miniblog. Parece-me mais flexivel em termos de conteudo pois permite colocar links em qualquer parte do post e não só no titulo assim como permite a existência de posts sem links o que por vezes também é útil. A grande questão que fica ainda por responder é: Será que isto tudo tem algum interesse para quem cá vem? Valerá a pena? Acho que só o futuro o dirá. A ver vamos… […]
[…] One major change: I’ve moved the Quick Links (formerly Quickies) from the sidebar, where nobody noticed them, and mixed them in with the regular posts. This has the unfortunate side-effect of highlighting how many days I post nothing but quick links. I’m hoping I’ll be inspired to post more regular entries from now on to avoid looking silly. The quick links were implemented using code loosely based on a technique posted in the WordPress forums, inspired by Matt’s original Asides concept. […]
[…] They seemed like such an odd concept for me at first, but “Asides” have started to intrigue me, so I’ve decided to start using them for my blog… […]
[…] Asides Os “Asides” é mais uma das novidades desta nova edição. Os asides foram criados pelo Matthew Mullenweg (o gajo q criou o WordPress!) e são uma versão lite de um post normal. São mais ou menos como uma forma de diferenciar os posts mais completos dos menos completos. Como exemplo, os 4 ultimos posts que fiz aqui foram asides, onde tinha pouco para dizer. No entanto, este já não é um aside. […]
[…] > http://photomatt.net/2004/05/19/asides/ – asides for wordpress […]
[…] By golly gum, I think I finally got Matt’s Asides installed. Talk about your major headaches… Explore posts in the same categories: Asides […]
[…] If my previous aside had you a bit confused, I was celebrating my success at finally being able to get a new hack to work. I’ve often had cause to write a quick one-liner, but I hated wasted all that space because once I published it, the metadata takes up more space than does the actual content itself. I hated the way it looked, but I also hated not being able to spiff up my briefer thoughts. So, I found Matt’s Asides, but I couldn’t get it work. Matt hacked The Loop to have it check a specific category and then format it differently when it displayed. This allowed users to take up less space with very short posts while still allowing readers to submit their comments on the content. […]
[…] We’ve added an implementation of Matt’s Asides that draws on K2’s implementation as well. Just select a post category in your theme options and away you go. […]
[…] I’m enabling Matt’s asides for off-the-cuff posts. […]
[…] El sistema Asides és molt emprat arreu de la blogosfera i la seva implemenatció és molt simple si tens un bloc WordPress. El precurssor del mètode és Matthew Mullenweg de PhotoMatt.net. […]
[…] The theme has built-in support for Gravatars, Related Posts (but I’m thinking of using Related Entries 2.0 instead) and Ultimate Tag Warrior. I’m still trying to implement Matt’s Asides and segregate it from regular posts so that you can style your asides separately and even present a different ad format for asides and regular posts. I will go over K2’s theloop.php file and study whether I can rip it apart and use it for the theme. […]
[…] I’ve been going through kind of a dry spell with blogging. It’s not that I haven’t found things worth blogging about – I’ve just been short on the time and energy necessary to saying anything worthwhile about them. I tend to accumulate links to various things I find interesting and file it in a “To Blog” folder that just grows and grows. Instead of letting that happen, I’m starting something new. There are now two kinds of posts of this site: normal blog postings and simple links I’m calling my “news feed.” Thanks to the use of “asides”, a handy tool for WordPress, I can now have written posts show up here in the main column and quick links show up in the right-hand column. You can comment on any type of post, and you can also get RSS feeds for any combination as well. […]
[…] Para conseguirlo me ha servido de gran ayuda leer las indicaciones de Boja en la maté por un yogur, asà como el texto publicado en blogpocket. Gracias a ellos el trabajo estaba al 98% resuelto. Pero aún faltaba un detalle que me ha llevado bastantes horas y que no ha sido hasta después de haber leido y releido mil veces el artÃculo original de Matt, su index.php y la entrada en el codex de WordPress, cuando me he dado cuenta de qué era lo que estaba mal en mi código. […]
[…] Integrated asides support […]
[…] Fortunately, Matt, the creator of wordpress, had faced a similar problem, and provided a smart solution: Asides. He explains this in his post: The format of a weblog dictates its writing. There is no getting around this. Ever since my redesign I’ve had these big important titles that””as a writer””are intimidating. Everything I write has to be worthy of its 32-point Dante banner. This was a deliberate to force myself to put more thought and effort into my entries and it has worked; some of my best writing has been since the redesign. It has been stifling as well. To express what I want to express these days I need something more dynamic. […]
[…] Cause I really want this asides thing but too lazy/too clueless to implement it myself. Testing 123. […]
[…] John Ford, local client-side genius of Aldenta fame, tweaked my CSS and .php code to make this aside scream 100% to spec. In return, I’ll be designing a few interfaces for free sometime soon… thanks, John! […]
[…] Only knitblog Asides will be displayed. […]
[…] I was thinking about the whole issue of asides, and wondered if the way Matt describes is the same as I see it. I don’t. An aside, to me, has to have a context (i.e. it should be in proximity to the information it relates to) but the method of adding asides as “separate” information seems “strange” somehow.I don’t think Matt’s wrong, I just think I have a different take on the whole issue. […]
[…] Ran across the concept of Asides while setting up the Tarski theme for Jenny Jenkins. I’m going to implement asides here in the Kiloblog. In fact, I best go fire off an aside post. […]
[…] As an aside, I’ve implemented asides. A concept of to Matt Mullenweg’s. I’m going to include asides as a feature in all my blog deployments. Asides, Matt Mullenweg, Pimp My Blog, WordPress Posted in Blogging, Aside | See also: No Related Posts […]
[…] Matt’s Asides AJAX Comments SuckerFish Drop Downs, No Sidebar PNG Shadows for non-IE users, IE users get an annoying Firefox watermark. […]
[…] En lugar de “No leas esto” ahora contamos con mi propia version de los tipicos Asides […]
[…] If you like the idea of links, then consider the concept of an ‘aside’ or ’short’, where each of those links you’ve mass RSS bombed, forms a short one-or-two sentence post of it’s own. There are many different resources on how to implement an asides or shorts concept. […]
[…] I’m running a version of Matt’s Asides in my own weird beta test. Tarski has support for the hack built in to the main template code. But I want to run them just in the sidebar. […]
[…] Blogging is suppsed to be fun. But being the perfectionist that I am, every entry had to be crafted to perfection. My obsession with the quality of individual posts have made blogging less fun. To rememdy this problem, I implemented Matt’s Asides technique. This is my first aside post. […]
[…] Aloitin eilen tyylittämään asideja WordPressiin. Aamulla tein ensimmäisen version, mutta se ei toiminut todellakaan Internet Explorerilla, joten päätin poistaa sen ja yrittää myöhemmin uudelleen. Illalla aloitin tekemään kyseistä hommaa aivan alusta aivan samalla tavalla, mutta tällä kertaa kyseiset asaidit pelasivat myös rakkaalla Internet Explorerilla. Myös muita pikkujuttuja on tullut tehtyä. […]
[…] As one blogger said “The format of a weblog dictates its writing“. Hopefully I’ve got style niches for all levels of writing. The trick is not to get lost in the “lowest common denominator”. The last thing I want is for this to become a “blurb blog”. […]
[…] Interdetto dalla difficoltà di K2 sto per passare Sestaluna ad un nuovo template (che tralaltro si vede alla grande sia alle risoluzioni da sfigati sia alla maestosa 1280×1024). Gli Asides vorrei tenerli, ma essendo un’animale non riesco a implementare nè quelli di K2 nè i Matt’s Asides (manco questo plugin qui sono riuscito a far funzionare – sono proprio scarso con il php). […]
[…] بعد أن رأيت ÙÙŠ بعض المدونات الأجنبية تدوينات سريعة مثل هذه علمت من مدونة الأخ سوار أنها تسمى Asides أو Min-Post Ùقمت باتباع التعليمات Ù„Ø¥Ø¶Ø§ÙØ© هذه الميزة لمدونتي ØŒ Ùˆ أظنها تعمل بشكل جيد الآن. […]
[…] By the way, this is what an “aside” looks like. These are where I can put random little musings like the following: During my upcoming trip to Japan in August, I’m planning to hike to the top of Mt. Fuji. Now, I’m a bit worried about trying to get my 300 lb frame to the top of the mountain, but how bad could it be? […]
Amazing hack! I’m using it on my blog. It’s built into the great K2 theme. Thanks again man!
[…] That doesn’t mean that nothing cool has come out of the narrow design. With the lack of sidebar to locate links I find interesting, I implemented the asides that Matt put together. These will remain the same in the new design. […]
[…] So yeah, I’ve been silent about 6 months because too much has been going on IRL. Largely, it’s because I haven’t had the time to sit down and write the big update post which is growing longer and longer since March by the week. So, to alleviate this cyclical anxiety of posting that I have, you may have noticed the “Matt’s Asides” that’ve been implemented inline with the content so I can whip off some zingers real quick whenever I feel like it. Now they’re “Acides” of Agendacide, or GlendAcides… whichever word would make you groan in agony more, as a fitting tribute to the true Matt-like fashion of dropping THE.WORST.PUNS_EVAR. […]
[…] Dalam bundel K2, Asides sudah menjadi menu built-in yang disuguhkan template ini. Saya memang tidak menggunakannya beberapa waktu ini. Mungkin karena belum dirasa perlu. […]
[…] Photo Matt has talked about this: As you may have noticed on this page or in your aggregator my normal entries are now interspersed with smaller link and commentary entries represented in an unordered list. These fall in chronological order with my other entries and are real posts with permalinks, comments, categories, trackbacks, and pingbacks. I have been wanting to do this for a long time and there was a flood of entries when I first got this working. I fully expect to post in this category with a much higher frequency than my normal posts. I come across things all the time that I want to link so badly but I just don’t have the time to write an entry about. Now every interesting tidbit I come across is just a click of a favelet away from my readers. It’s liberating. […]
[…] I had promised the re-continuance of ye olde “Two Chains and a Podcast” by the first of January; unfortunately, it would appear I won’t have time enough before then to give it the time it deserves — or even a halfway-decent job this time. (It would also appear I’m unnecessarily employing the passive voice. Blame it on Matt’s Asides.) There’s no ETA on volume II, episode I for now, but expect it at least by February. […]
[…] still need to move some things around. I have a new plugin called Asides. Asides is a name for a plugin in which when there is something on the web that doesn’t […]
[…] solve these problems, I’m now using asides and articles. Basically, all posts of little importance go in the category of “Asides”, […]
[…] that worked well here and there””a comment form layout from Airbag Industries; Matt Mullenweg’s Asides technique. Joe Clark’s simple, single-column presentation. A radiant pattern from a beer bottle. A thousand […]
[…] Feb 22nd, 2007 by admin Admin sidenotesSidenotes / asides are short posts – things like comments about the site or quick announcements. Ideally the theme in use will display them differently from the more normal posts. You can read more about this on Matt’s blog. […]
[…] (Now, I need to find different ways to share information along with tidbits of my own commentary. Asides might work, but then again, I am not really a fan of asides. Maybe they will work for me if I work […]
[…] has a feature called Sidenotes which is based on Matt’s Asides technique used in K2. You can set the category and number of sidenotes that you want to display from the […]
[…] (Concept and code borrowed from Matt Mullenweg.) […]
[…] Matthew Mullenweg is right: The format of a weblog dictates its writing. Since moving to the new design, I’ve been inspired to write more thoughtful, elegant […]
[…] my advice and read Shawn’s tutorial linked above, you’ll notice that he’s using Matt’s Asides technique for his index.php. This includes nifty stuff like wp-texturize and other magical […]
[…] a WordPress blog into a tumble-hybrid. Ben’s method uses conditional statements instead of Matt’s Asides technique. If you decide to go tumbling and post frequently, then check out Ron’s feed […]
[…] de sorprender, espero que este post sin tÃtulo no los haya sorprendido. Se trata de los famosos Asides que ya hace tiempo queria hacer y mis limitados conocimientos de PHP y CSS no me ayudaban. Ahora […]
I couldn’t agree with you more. I did the same thing on my website.
[…] differently. Many of my posts (categorized as Attention Deficit) are what I’d consider an Aside. They’re usually short, sweet, and off-topic, and they likely contain a link and very little […]
[…] cool asides on my blog, which means that not everything gets it’s own post page, thanks to Matt’s blog post on the subject. Now to work out how to get rid of the bullet […]
[…] you want to read more about asides, check out Matt’s post on them. He’s the one who started WordPress and his blog is where I first saw asides in use. […]
[…] also added support for Asides (using Ma.tt’s Hack) after seeing Preshit’s Tumblelog. I created an account at Tumblr, but I felt it’s […]
http://blog.photoneil.net/2008/08/24/really-easy-asides-for-wordpress/
I used your code a little and code for elsewhere to pull the asides posts off.
I took your idea for Asides and pull in my Twitter RSS (@smjdesign) via Alex King’s TwitterTools. Twitter makes a very good way to add asides to your blog. You might consider it. Semantically–for my use, they are the same.
I have it working on a personal website. I doubt that I will be adding it to my professional websites anytime soon due to the “off-topic-ness.” Make sure though if you bring them into your blog and subsequent RSS feed that your entire homepage isn’t full of tweets/asides!
[…] Formats (#14746) is kind of cool. It takes the idea of “Asides” and makes them officially supported with any crazy hacks. It really becomes cool when you […]
[…] to mark and save for later.This has long been the approach I’ve taken to this site. Years ago Matt wrote about how asides are useful. Presenting content in the form most appropriate is something I have tried to make […]
[…] like Kottke had setup at the time and I remember specifically copy and pasting Matt's code from his post that coined the term 'asides'. Experiences like this really got me thinking about how software worked and what blogging was.It's […]
[…] even wrote about asides in 2004. He didn’t create this method of blogging, but he made it popular and possible for […]