Comments on: How to Skyrocket User-Generated Content on Your WordPress Site with Quick Sidebar Posting

By: Wordpress Rooms | Blog | Updates to the plugins are a bit delayed

Wordpress Rooms | Blog | Updates to the plugins are a bit delayed — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:23:49 +0000

[...] plugins. For instance, the new version of the sidebar post will come with a better Interface as suggested on WPMU dev [...]

By: Janvier

Janvier — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:09:34 +0000

I am glad to read some of you who use my sidebar-post plugin. I am working on the next version which should come with a lot more options and styling made easy. A few days from now all should be ready to download. The feed is at http://www.wprooms.com/feed

By: Pippin Williamson

Pippin Williamson — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:00:18 +0000

Another very helpful post, Sarah!

Thanks

By: designodyssey

designodyssey — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:42:08 +0000

Decided to buy Gravity Forms instead of using TDO MiniForms for a slightly different usage, but it has the same capability.

What I hope this can do is allow a group-specific post editable by the group admin. Of course, I need to first create a group extension that provides somewhere to show the posts and automagically assign posts to just that group.

I’m also a bit worried about the size of my posts table, but oh well.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:25:28 +0000

thank you!

By: Sarah Gooding

Sarah Gooding — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:14:53 +0000

Wrap this in PHP tags to put it in there manually: sidebar_post_widget()

By: sam

sam — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:11:37 +0000

Thanks Sarah

I did try all my usual stuff but perhaps I’m just being stupid because it’s getting late!

What do I need to add to my sidebar.php to manually call the widget and I’ll try it that way

You’re right it does need a lot of work – why it was styled like that in the first place, I’m not so sure!!

By: Sarah Gooding

Sarah Gooding — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:57:43 +0000

It needs a little work but it’s definitely a really useful plugin so that people don’t have to go through the dashboard to post. If you have Firebug you can target the selectors it uses or wrap it in your own ID, etc.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:54:15 +0000

I’m having a bit of a hard time styling this – don’t know why!

I notice that there is a css folder in the plugin – what do i have to do to get it to use any stylesheets i put in there?

plus the options menu doesn’t work – just gives out an internal server erroor unfortunately

Great idea thought and I’ll definitely make good use of it

By: Bowe

Bowe — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:39:23 +0000

@Mark

I’m already using your plugin and I absolutely love it.. It’s a crucial feature for many of my sites, and I’ll send you a donation right now (forgot about that). Amazing plugin :-)