Textpattern Sideblog
There is no plugin for a sideblog as there is with Wordpress, but implementing a sideblog into your Textpattern install is almost effortless.
Step 1: Create a section called sideblog with the following settings:
- Selected by default? No
- On front page? No
- Syndicate? Yes (set to no if you do not want people to see that you have updated your site through their feedreader).
- Include in site search? Yes
Step 2: Create a new post in the section you just created. Be sure to include a short excerpt.
Step 3: This is just an example, here I have set the number of articles shown to 2. The section must be the section you created in step 1. Paste this bit of code wherever you want your sideblog to appear (sidebar, footer, above your content, etc.,).
<txp:article_custom limit="2" section="sideblog" form="sideblog"/>
Step 4: Create an article form called sideblog. Into that form paste the following and modify as you wish:
<h4><txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink> | <txp:comments_invite /></h4>
<txp:excerpt />
And that is it, you now have a functioning sideblog so go forth newbie and blog a little more… Kinda useless if you ask me, but to each their own :)