How to have Side Column with Short Takes
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I am using the twenty/ten theme. Is there a way on this theme or some other to have a side bar where I can do short comments (of a paragraph or less) for news and updates. I have these on a separate page but not everyone sees them.
So it would mean I would need three columns–the far left to have the blog roll and recent posts kind of data (widgets), the middle to have longer prose piece and the far right to have short takes.
Thank you
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You would have to switch to a three-column theme and then you could use a text widget in the right column for your short takes, and put your normal widgets into the left column. Your posts would appear in the middle.
You can use the feature filter at http://theme.wordpress.com/themes and filter for 3-column to see what is available.
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There are some different post types available on some themes like Asides, that are designed for this kind of thing to be integrated into the blog itself. You could switch to a theme that allows Asides or just start making these as posts and categorize them as something, Quickies or whatever you like, and then get the RSS widget and put the feed for yourblog.wordpress.com/category/quickies in the RSS widget and get it to display excerpts.
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The test widget format sucks (I put a sample there) That won’t do for what I want–but it didn’t hurt to try
Raincoaster-that sounds really complicated–the RSS part– and won’t it look as bad as the above sample?
I’ll check and see if my theme allows “asides” -
You write the content in the visual editor, format it as you wish, and then switch to the HTML tab and copy it out and paste it into the text widget.
The text widget isn’t equipped with a fairy godmother to format things for you.
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You don’t need BOTH asides and the RSS widget. You can just use normal posts. But the posts will come out in the blog itself in the order they’re made; they can’t be supressed. And yes, the RSS widget looks pretty stark.
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It says that the twenty ten theme supports asides–and galleries–but I don’t know where it is?
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Thanks, Sacred Path, but what I don’t like about it -is the text seems a bit faded.
Also, it doesn’t allow the powered hyper links.So now I’m looking for an “aside” option which the theme is supposed to support (as it is in its description)–but I’m not sure how to access it. .
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When you create a post, in the “attributes” module, select “aside” from the post type pulldown.
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Sorry, it is in the “format” module on the right side of the text area probably down near the bottom and has three radio buttons in it for asides, standard and gallery.
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I don’t get the fairy godmother comment. When I pasted into the text widget, it didn’t do links and and it made the text faded. I will try again.
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Hi,
When I press “aside,” it doesn’t put in to the side of the text–but simply makes the text smaller. I’ll try gallery.
Could someone check the link I gave–so people know what I’m trying to do.
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That isn’t a wordpress blog, but from looking at the source code, what they are using is the equivalent of a text widget and they are styling what they put into it with HTML. The links come out green and the dates come out in the brownish-red (since that is how their site CSS is set up).
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Regarding the text widget–(and in response to the fairy godmother comment) I pasted the post from the visual editor–that is where I had already set up links–and it didn’t transfer the hyperlinks. . .
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asides don’t put anything in the sidebar. They are a special type of post where no title or metadata (date, author, etc.) is shown and it appears right in line with all your other posts. It can’t be put into a sidebar.
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You have to copy from the HTML tab in the visual editor otherwise all you will get is the text. You have to get the code, and than will only show in the HTML tab in the editor.
Write the stuff, put in the links and formatting and when done, click on the HTML tab, copy out everything, paste it into the text widget and then make sure the “add paragraph breaks” button is selected and click save in the text widget.
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