postMash (filtered) - custom post order Wordpress Plugin »

Posts are usually listed in reverse chronological order as they are often used for posting regular time-orientated content.

postMash (by Joel Starnes) lets you customise the order your posts are listed in using it’s simple Ajax drag-and-drop administrative interface. Plus it gives quick access to toggle posts between draft and published states. Particularly useful if you’re using WordPress as a CMS.

postMash (filtered) provides some key modification tweaks to the original plugin.

1) You can now filter all posts by category & date from the admin panel, where previously you had to work from a full list of all published posts

2) Addition of new function to allow you to call the ‘Next Post’ and ‘Previous Post’ links in your ’single.php’ theme file to match the order you set in postMash, instead of the default (by date).

3) there is a brief instruction on how to allow viewing of posts in the regular ‘Edit Posts’ admin window in the same order as they appear on postMash and, if set, your blog.

The original plugin and author website is: http://joelstarnes.co.uk/postMash/ For this tweaked version, please visit: http://postmashfiltered.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/post-mash-filtered/
Tags: reorder, posts, Post, manage, admin, drag-and-drop, re-order, AJAX, order posts, reorder posts

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Post Links Redux Wordpress Plugin »

The standard Wordpress template tags used for post navigation (nextpost, previouspost, nextpostlink, and previouspostlink) don’t offer this functionality, leaving you with nothing returned if there isn’t a post. This plugin changes that.

NOTE!!! This plugin only works (without a hack in your template) on single post pages.

You can find the plugin home page (and leave comments) here.
Tags: navigation, Post

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Neighbor Post Preview Wordpress Plugin »

Using the functions provided by this plugin, when you hover on the previous/next links in a single post page, you can see a preview of the post.

It shows an excerpt of the post. The excerpt is generated using the same mechanism as “the_excerpt” tag. If there is an explicit excerpt for the post, the explicit excerpt will be used. If the post doesn’t have one, an excerpt is faked by truncating the full content.

If a post is password-protected, no preview will generated for it.
Tags: preview, navigation

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Next Page, Not Next Post Wordpress Plugin »

Next Page, Not Next Post is a very simple plugin that creates navigation between sibling pages.

This plugin gives you two new functions, next_page_not_post($anchor_text, $loop, $sort) & previous_page_not_post($anchor_text, $loop, $sort). Each function has three simple options.

1. Anchor Text - Either set the anchor text manually or use the page title. Defaults to page title, just leave blank for that.
2. Looping - Link the first element to the last and the last to the first, or not. Defaults to not looping, set to true for looping.
3. Get Pages - This is used to determine how to sort your results. Use the documentation at Get Pages to find all available options here. Defaults to menu_order ascending.

NEW Set the loop parameter to ‘expand’ and the plugin will automatically ascend and descend at the beginning and end of a level.

More documentation for Next Page, Not Next Post on BinaryM.com
Tags: cms, pages

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