Microsummaries Generator plugin for WordPress
If you’re a blogger, using WordPress, you may want to enable your blog for Microsummaries.
I wrote a simple plugin for WordPress which just does that: it takes the title of the latest blog post and provides this as the content for a Live Title within Firefox 2.0.
For downloading the plugin and installation instructions (really simple!), head over to the WP-Microsummary plugin page.
Enjoy, and don’t forget to share your thoughts!
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Joefish 05:40 on August 5, 2006 Permalink
No one’s commented on this yet? That’s surprising.
I like this plugin. I snagged it as soon as I saw it on wp-plugins.net.
Joe Lencioni 02:53 on September 8, 2006 Permalink
I tried to install this and it wasn’t working, so I went directly to http://shiftingpixel.com/microsummary and it was giving me a bunch of errors. So, I cracked open your code and noticed that it was looking in wp-content/plugins/microsummary instead of wp-content/plugins/microsummaries like your documentation reads.
Just a heads up in case anybody else is having troubles.
Joe 10:54 on September 8, 2006 Permalink
You’re right, I stand corrected and have improved the installation instructions with some more examples. Thanks for pointing this out!
Skippy 09:56 on October 17, 2006 Permalink
Perhaps it would be worth mentioning that the tag gets inserted via the call to wp_head(). I had a theme where wp_head() was commented out in header.php, so as you can see it’s not a given.
Tom Edwards 23:10 on October 19, 2006 Permalink
Good to see things already rolling. When I had my own XSLT microsummaries, is_single pages had the number of comments instead of the site’s most recent post; is there any chance of that sort of functionality being added to the plug-in?
Some other page-specific microsummary ideas I’ve had have been the latest post in a category and the number of results returned from a search.
Jared 22:29 on October 24, 2006 Permalink
This worked perfectly for me. I was working on something similar when I ran into this plug in when I was troubleshooting my noob PHP skills. Thanks!
Tim W. 02:08 on October 25, 2006 Permalink
I’ve installed your plugin, but when I try to add a Live Title bookmark to my site I see a “404 Not Found” instead of the title of my latest post. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Tim
mtannoyances.com
Joe 09:03 on October 25, 2006 Permalink
@Tim: without further details it is not possible to know what is going on. You may want to look at how your WP Theme is working and look for the call to wp_head() in the loop (see comment by Skippy on this page). Also, did you try to rebuild the permalink structure, just to be sure?
Update: the microsummary plugin assumes that the Permalink rewriting mechanism is always available. This is not true, a blog owner may choose to leave the default option in place (which is: do not use permalinks) an then the plugin breaks.
I’m working on a version which fixes this problem right now.
For the time being, you may choose to enable rewrite rules. In WP-Admin, choose Options / Permalinks and then either “Date and Name based” or “Numeric” (or even a Custom rule if you’re fancy).
Mosey 13:33 on October 25, 2006 Permalink
I’m looking forward to installing and using this plugin. Just found out yesterday about Firefox 2.0′s newest feature. Joomla doesn’t have a plugin/extension that covers this – but am delighted to find that WP does! I think as Firefox 2.0 rolls out the popularity of this plugin will increase. Will write again with any results once site is completed/plugin installed. Thanks again.
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ketsugi 12:44 on October 26, 2006 Permalink
1. The URL rewriting doesn’t always work. For example, my permalinks are in the form of http://ketsugi.com/category-name/post-title and this tends to break plugin permalinks. It would be nice to have an option to use the direct link to the PHP file.
2. It doesn’t seem to work with WordPress 2.1 (which is currently in development).
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: have_posts() in /home/ketsugic/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/microsummary/microsummary.php on line 109
Joe 00:04 on November 8, 2006 Permalink
@ketsugi: Indeed, URL rewriting seems to work differently for some customized schemes. I removed the rewriting stuff, the simple query string approach should work in all situations.
Re your second point: I finally found time to install WordPress 2.1 on a test machine. The plugin works just fine in this setup, I was not able to reproduce this error.
However, some themes may be problematic; read more here: WP Themes and Microsummary plugin.
Joseph 21:59 on December 12, 2006 Permalink
What I want to do on my blog, is every few hours take the oldest post and move it to the
front of the queue, all automatically. Anyone know if there is a plugin that can do this or
a simple way to set up another plugin to do this (use my own feed perhaps)?
Thanks.
Jermaine 13:08 on December 18, 2006 Permalink
Nice work on the plugin, i will test it right away.
Mein Parteibuch 04:15 on January 3, 2007 Permalink
Live Bookmark dank Microsummary…
Im Firefox 2 können Bookmarks als sogenannte dynamische Lesezeichen abgespeichert werden.
Mein Parteibuch unterstützt nun genau wie perun bereits seit Oktober dank des praktischen Microsummary Plugins von Johannes la Poutre die auch Live Bookmark …
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