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May 27, 2004

Thingys & Doodads - Best of Me

Let's say you want to display a list of links to some of your best posts... the stuff you are really proud of (my list would be empty, but that's another story)... how would you do that?

I was doing a blog tweak for Linda at Auteriffic, and she asked me if I could do something with a select category for her poetry to display in the sidebar. I don't think this is what she was looking for, but it exactly what you need to display a "best of me" series of posts in your sidebar.

Enable your category archives.
Create a Best of Me category.
Assign that category to the posts you want to display.
Cut & Paste the following code into your sidebar where you want your list to appear.

<div class="sidetitle">
Best of Me
</div>
<div class="side">
<MTEntries category="Best of Me" sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend">
<a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>">
<$MTEntryTitle$>
</a>
<br />
</MTEntries>
</div>


I have the code sample up over at the MadLab, at the bottom of the sidebar, if you want to see what the output is. I used an existing category for testing. There are only four posts in that category, but you'll get the idea.

Posted by: Madfish Willie at 07:23 PM | Comments (138) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 That's sweet. Could you do it so they are grouped by their main category? So the output would look something like:

Category 1
post a
post d
post f
Category 2
post c
Category 3
post b
post e

Posted by: Jim @ at May 28, 2004 01:33 PM

2 I think it would look something like this:

<div class="sidetitle">
Best of Me
</div>
<div class="side">
<b>Category A</b>
<MTEntries category="Category A" sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend">
<a href="">
<$MTEntryTitle$>
</a>
<br />
</MTEntries>
<b>Category B</b>
<MTEntries category="Category B" sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend">
<a href="">
<$MTEntryTitle$>
</a>
<br />
</MTEntries>
<b>Category C</b>
<MTEntries category="Category C" sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend">
<a href="">
<$MTEntryTitle$>
</a>
<br />
</MTEntries>
</div>

I haven't tested it, but I'm sure it would work just fine for your site.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at May 28, 2004 01:40 PM

3 That would work for picking categories by hand. I was thinking of assigning the "best of" category to whatever posts are the really good ones and then displaying like I have mine now. Breaking all of the "best of" ones out by their other category.

Can you specify two categories? Like yours above with one addition:

<div class="sidetitle">
Best of Me
</div>
<div class="side">
<b>Category A</b>
<MTEntries category="Category A" MTEntries category="Best of" sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend">
<a href="">
<$MTEntryTitle$>
</a>
<br />
</MTEntries>
<b>Category B</b>
<MTEntries category="Category B" MTEntries category="Best of" sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend">
<a href="">
<$MTEntryTitle$>
</a>
<br />
</MTEntries>
<b>Category C</b>
<MTEntries category="Category C" MTEntries category="Best of" sort_by="title" sort_order="ascend">
<a href="">
<$MTEntryTitle$>
</a>
<br />
</MTEntries>
</div>

Posted by: Jim @ at May 28, 2004 03:09 PM

4 Oops. The second "MTEntries" in each of those shouldn't be there.

Posted by: Jim @ at May 28, 2004 03:09 PM

5 I don't know if that would work or not... try and let us know.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at May 28, 2004 07:59 PM

6 I just tested that out at the MadLab. It took the four primary entries and filtered them down to the two secondary entries. Good One, Jim!!

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at May 28, 2004 08:06 PM

7 Sweet! Now I just have to figure out how to combine that with collapsable lists.

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