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Can Simple Press populate my Wordpress pages in the sidebar with recent posts?
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Mark Browning
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Oct 10, 2013 - 11:25 am

I have opted for a forum (Simple Press) versus a blog because I felt the platform was more amenable to people sharing information. One advantage of the WP blog is that it populates the sidebar on each page with fresh content from recent posts. Can Simple Press do the same?

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Brandon
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Oct 10, 2013 - 1:04 pm

Take a look at the Template Tags plugin for SP on the Plugins page. https://simple-press.com/downl.....d-plugins/ that should do what you want. There are several different ones including a recent posts widgets. The info on how to set them up is here. http://codex.simple-press.com/.....gs-plugin/

 

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Mark Browning
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Oct 31, 2013 - 3:42 pm

I have downloaded the template tags plug in for Simple press but am having a difficult time understanding how to use the Simple Press Plug in Uploader. It has a browse button. I browse to the location of the template tags folder.  If I double click on that, it opens to a second folder called template tags. If I double click on that, it opens to Library and sp template tags. Library contains a lot of PHP folders. But the browse window never populates in the Uploader. What am I doing wrong?

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Mr Papa
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Oct 31, 2013 - 6:14 pm

when you use the plugin uploader, you want to browse and upload the zip file (template-tags.zip) - not the files created when you expand the zip archive...  the zip file is the plugin file you downloaded from this site...

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Mark Browning
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Oct 31, 2013 - 8:41 pm

Okay. Amazing how things work when you do the right thing. And then, almost by magic, the recent post widget populated the sidebar with ease. Good plug in! Thanks.

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Mr Papa
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Nov 1, 2013 - 12:05 am

glad to help!

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