Say hello to mini posts!
I split the Wordpress loop into two, added a small plugin to manage the categories, and some CSS and voila: Miniposts, aka inline asides, linkblog, etc. Miniposts provide a streamlined way to post links or short pieces of info, without taking up space or messing up the semantics by slamming many topics onto one post. Typically the title will point to an interesting destination and the text will comment on it. Today, we’re just pointing back home.
Ok, two comments.
First of all, do they appear before all other posts, or do they appear within the normal chronological order, just different? When you make another post, will “Say hello to mini posts” appear as the second post, or will it still be above everything else?
Second, is this a plugin, and where can we get it?
The miniposts are inline, so they follow exactly the same order as the normal ones, i.e. chronological. That of course doesn’t mean that you couldn’t (if you wanted) change that. It is not just a plugin, it’s more than that. You cannot ‘get’ it: most of the code is in the theme files (php), but I can tell you how to do it if you wish.
Nice! I’ve done something similar for the mini-posts and mini-quotes on RT, but wish I’d spent some more time creating a plugin, rather than changing bits and pieces of the code (in the template, RSS feeds, even WP functions). Customized code has made upgrading to WP2.0 a major drag.